Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] reduced to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 2 | To help the learner , complex examples should be reduced to the essential characteristics and differences emphasised . |
| 3 | I am sure that we are all glad that many of the lenders — building societies , banks and others — have come forward with schemes to ensure , or at least to advance the proposition , that the number of repossessions should be reduced to the absolute minimum . |
| 4 | If intervention remains , it should be reduced to the original concept of a safety net for use in extreme emergencies . |
| 5 | The judges at the Rutland Forest Eyre in 1269 ordered that they should be reduced to the customary and reasonable number , which was five walking foresters and one riding forester with one page , and that no walking forester in that forest was in future to have pages under him . |
| 6 | In view of the substantial sums of money involved , risks must be reduced to the absolute minimum . |
| 7 | Initially , ninety meetings in ninety days are recommended but later this may be reduced to a regular two meetings a week or however many the individual recovering person finds to be necessary to maintain a contented mood and a sense of peace of mind . |
| 8 | Toxic emissions from a huge nickel-smelting plant in the far north of Russia may be reduced to a negligible amount if cleanup proposals from a Scandinavian group of companies are accepted by the plant 's owner . |
| 9 | ( 4.7 ) unc The sequential composition of a pair of assignments to different lists of variables may be reduced to a single assignment using this law with 3.2 and 3.3 . |
| 10 | The top rate of value added tax ( 22 per cent ) would be reduced to a new upper rate of 18.6 per cent from April 13 , 1992 , rather than Jan. 1 , 1993 [ see also p. 38297 ] . |
| 11 | And , as Greve points out , in five years the rail journey between Paris , Brussels and Cologne will be reduced to a mere two hours and thirty-five minutes . |
| 12 | After reaching at least 400 feet , engine power will be reduced to a defined amount and the flaps and slats retracted ( or , in the jargon , the aircraft will be ‘ cleaned up ’ ) . |
| 13 | The statement of compliance with the Cadbury code will be reduced to the anodyne stuff you read about employing disabled people in directors ' reports . |
| 14 | Now in this case D can be reduced to a standard canonical form E by a similar transformation unc where Y has precisely the same block diagonal form as D ; in effect , each diagonal block is resolved into its own canonical form . |
| 15 | Although emissions of carbon monoxide , hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen can be reduced to a certain extent by modifications to the engine combustion , meeting the emission standards requires the fitting of catalytic converters . |
| 16 | Part of the philosophical interest in this area arose from the questions of whether ( a ) all indexical expressions can be reduced to a single primary one , and thence ( b ) whether this final pragmatic residue can be translated out into some eternal context-free artificial language . |
| 17 | However , they do involve exploring the role of knowledge and ideas in society and do not accept that all aspects of social relations can be reduced to the economic relations of the mode of production . |
| 18 | Given these ideas about ideology , Marxists argue that morality can be reduced to the conscious articulation of class interests , the unconscious acceptance of hegemonic power , or the consequence of structurally generated false consciousness . |
| 19 | For example multiplication can be reduced to an appropriate number of additions , and so on . |