Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have be reduce [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 . ’
2 The Social Services Department also provided thirteen short-term and long-term residential units for children in care ( by 1988 their number had been reduced to eleven ) , none with wheelchair access and only one with any experience of caring for children with learning difficulties .
3 And the right whale has been so heavily hunted that its numbers have been reduced to three per cent of original stock .
4 Toton was a pivotal Speedlink yard in 1980 but its status had been reduced to that of staging and storage sidings , plus a small amount of household coal shunting , by the end of the decade .
5 The inhabitants made it clear that their commons had been reduced to between half and a third of their former size .
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