Example sentences of "be reduced in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the goods are described to you as seconds , shopsoiled , slightly imperfect , if any phrase like that is used I think your own commonsense should tell you there 's something wrong with these goods and that presumably is the reason why they 're reduced in price . |
| 2 | Unions have lost powers and the numbers of disputes has declined ; similarly the public sector has been reduced in size . |
| 3 | This modified use meant that the original waggon door opening had been reduced in width ( Plate 7 ) . |
| 4 | Hence , to my knowledge , no school curriculum materials have been designed with older learners in mind and there has been an alarming tendency , when cycles have been reduced in length , not to reduce content . |
| 5 | At an open air market , my daughter bought a jumper that had been reduced in price . |
| 6 | Already however , the Luftwaffe had been reduced in strength in Sicily as units began moving over to Libya to support the new German Afrika Korps , which was being assembled in the Tripoli area . |
| 7 | By 25 March ( 100 days into the simulation ) ozone has been reduced in two main regions . |
| 8 | The role of gold has always been a controversial issue in the international monetary system , but with the advent of floating its importance as a source of international liquidity has been reduced in several ways . |
| 9 | Although income inequalities have been reduced in Britain this century , this reduction has not been sufficient to justify the claim that class divisions are disappearing . |
| 10 | A prior , and misleading , assumption that the levels of direct taxation in Britain were very high has been eroded as levels of direct taxation have progressively been reduced in the 1980s , whilst the rates of indirect taxation — which are paid on goods and services and are therefore not levied according to income but according to expenditure — have increased . |
| 11 | The consequence is that reason in modern society has been reduced in scope to a means-end form : debate is too often a technical discussion among experts about the means . |
| 12 | One trick is to plaster all the shops in one particular chain with ‘ Sale ’ and ‘ Massive Discounts ’ posters while prices have only really been reduced in one branch . |
| 13 | The Duce had been reduced in a stroke from Head of State to a more or less insignificant cavaliere ( a commonplace title in Italy ) . |
| 14 | Mr. Nicholas Bennett : Does my right Hon. Friend agree that one of the major ways in which unemployment has been reduced in Wales is through the Governments regional policy of re-locating Civil Service and other Government agency jobs to the regions and Wales ? |
| 15 | Have I been reduced in size ? |
| 16 | At the same time traditional regional industrial policies which aim to help the economies of traditionally depressed regions have been reduced in scale and are now restricted mainly to the older urban areas of Clydeside , Tyneside , Humberside , Merseyside and South Wales . |
| 17 | The EPS had stood at 90,000 in January 1990 but , in line with Chamorro 's April inaugural pledge [ see p. 37370 ] , it had been reduced in size to 33,000 by October . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the government 's majority had been reduced in the past year from over 40 to five following defections from various coalition parties . |
| 19 | Mr Chairman I 'll try and be as brief as brief as possible the economic development strategy programme for nineteen ninety four , ninety five has been reduced in the light of the review of the activity concerned with the prosperity and consultation and with widely increased organisations and public agencies . |
| 20 | The court heard how the speed limit has been reduced in Akers Way , but at the time there was a temptation for drivers to speed . |
| 21 | In the Asian Small-clawed Otter , one of the smaller species , the claws are reduced in size — this possibly helps the toes to be more sensitive when being used to feel around boulders under water , for molluscs and crustaceans . |
| 22 | When ice melts it is believed that this structure is largely maintained but that the spaces become partly filled , possibly by unbonded water molecules which are small enough to fit inside them , or are reduced in size by bending and reorganization of the hydrogen bonds . |
| 23 | The storm signals are reduced in urgency , from No. 8 to 3 , to 1 , and then the last is taken away . |
| 24 | Where the fore wings are markedly larger than the hind pair there is a corresponding greater development of the mesothorax ( Hymenoptera , and also Diptera where the hind wings are reduced in size and not used for flying ) . |
| 25 | In the winter moths ( Operophtera ) , and in the fly Clunio marinus , they are reduced in the female to the condition of small flap-like vestiges . |
| 26 | As a beginning , it illustrates the division , acceptable to Kerr , of England into two nations , both in its external appearance , where the servants ' quarters are reduced in size and in ornament , and in the detail of its plan : |
| 27 | Ovaries , breasts and external genitalia are reduced in size , and vaginal secretions reduced . |
| 28 | If services are reduced in scope and operate on a more selective basis — that is , serve only certain categories and income groups within the population — then public expenditure could be reduced . |
| 29 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 30 | These are important questions for people who want to monitor the amount of alcohol they consume on a regular basis and perhaps replace their standard consumption with products that are reduced in alcohol . |