Example sentences of "[vb mod] be reduced to a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |