Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [be] reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't for the Great Video Game in the sky , I 'd probably be reduced to watching The Young Doctors . |
| 2 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 3 | Just ask her a couple of times whether she had a bath this morning and she will immediately be reduced to the anxious teenager she once was , surreptitiously sniffing her armpits and combing chemists for bottles of Charlie . |
| 4 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 5 | In fact , they would finally be reduced to the level of docile beasts of burden . |
| 6 | And , politics well aside , what unites them is precisely their purity , the fact that they can both be reduced to a matter of pure taste . |
| 7 | People reveal themselves in their actions , but they can never be reduced to them . |