Example sentences of "reduced to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most complicated jobs can be reduced to a sequence of relatively simple operations to be approached step by step . |
| 2 | Not only has the essential large vacuum cell been reduced to a small glass cell , but Wieman has also been able to replace gas lasers with solid state devices . |
| 3 | But others wilted under the physical pressure : Laurent Rodriguez , ‘ the Lion of Dax ’ , was one example , reduced to a harmless pussy cat by David Egerton and the rest . |
| 4 | The Cabinet shall be reduced to a minimum . |
| 5 | Elevations were ultimately reduced to a matrix of concrete-encased steel beams and columns , the voids between which were filled with large , gridded , steel-framed windows surmounting low infill panels of brickwork . |
| 6 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 7 | Millions of acres of rainforest were reduced to a desolate wasteland of charred tree-stumps . |
| 8 | The outcome of the talks remained unclear but leading figures in the opposition Civic Forum were optimistic that the Communists will be reduced to a minority in the new coalition government . |
| 9 | The opposition Civic Forum earlier described the talks as constructive , amid growing opposition optimism that the Communists would be reduced to a minority in the new government . |
| 10 | In the Sandys doctrine their roles were reversed : primacy was to be given to the nuclear weapon , and conventional forces were to be reduced to a supporting role . |
| 11 | Once found throughout the Yangtze , as well as the adjacent Futon River , the baiji , 2.5 metres ( 8 feet ) long , is now reduced to a handful of sub-groups . |
| 12 | According to at least some physicists , life can be reduced to a matter of information-processing . |
| 13 | There they are busily ferreting away food , medical supplies and weapons with which to build a new world after the current one is reduced to a moist cinder . |
| 14 | That long agony was reduced to a niche and a wall . |
| 15 | But perhaps Joan 's greatest success came with a young man in the neuro-psychiatric unit who had been reduced to a pitiful existence as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident . |
| 16 | Foinavon had reduced to a canter and he jumped the fence off his hocks like a show jumper . |
| 17 | Whole oats need to be fed in a larger quantity , as a proportion of them tend to pass undigested through the horse ; and crushed oats are usually smashed into oblivion , and reduced to a poor quality feed of husks and dust . |
| 18 | When Labour faced the polls in October 1990 , it was reduced to a 29-seat rump in the 99-seat parliament , caused , analysts agreed , by the electorate 's lack of confidence in the reforms and distaste for the social cost . |
| 19 | Former Governor Jerry Brown of California is now reduced to a spoiling game . |
| 20 | Using a solvent called AB57 — which was originally developed for cleaning marble and is a mixture of sodium and ammonium bicarbonates suspended in a cellulose gel — the conservation team has drastically altered the previously perceived tonal representations and , as one expert put it , the fresco ‘ has been reduced to a smudged painting with Disney colour ’ . |
| 21 | The initiative clearly lies elsewhere , effectively in managerial levels outside schools ; and teachers are reduced to a reactive or defensive position and should not be surprised to feel alternately frustration and cynicism about the whole process . |
| 22 | What we are looking at is the development of a decentralised approach to management which by definition can not be reduced to a few single issues , although the level of management self-awareness is critical in all of them . |
| 23 | To alleviate this the amount taken from the stock bottle is reduced to a level which creates no discomfort and the remedy is continued using that dosage routine until an increase in dose is appropriate §282 . |
| 24 | Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition . |
| 25 | The union 's research officer and main advocate , David Feickert , bitterly attacked the way that energy policy had been reduced to a question of how to beat the miners . |
| 26 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 27 | The Ambrosiana was destroyed , the Natural History Museum reduced to a pile of ashes . |
| 28 | The guests were given great freedom of movement , with etiquette reduced to a minimum , so that the whole affair had the air of a country house party in magnificent surroundings . |
| 29 | 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English . |
| 30 | Such data management operations take up a lot of the computer 's operating time ; in a computer based on FRAMs they would be reduced to a minimum . |