Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be reduced to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish Members of Parliament has been reduced to the nefarious nine , and now that the Secretary of State for Scotland and virtually every one of that nefarious nine trembles on the edge of the abyss of a total political wipeout in Scotland , will the Government finally see the sense of coming to the negotiating table and talking about Scottish government ? |
| 2 | Once again the war has been reduced to the status of a game , Hector 's childish and immature tone shows : |
| 3 | There was talk before the start of the competition having become more intense ; of the gap between McLaren and the rest having been reduced to the point where we might have a race on our hands . |
| 4 | However as each urban locality has been reduced to the status of a labour pool so they are now integrated not within the production process of capital but of wage-labour , within the sphere of civil society rather than of capitalist production per se . |
| 5 | Under the influence of opera and the culture it represents , most modern music has been reduced to the level of entertainment and deprived of its Dionysiac seriousness — except in Germany . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |