Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE 20-storey building has been reduced to rubble , newsprint supplies are fast running out , there is very little electricity , communications are almost non-existent and every day journalists risk their lives getting the news into , and out of , Oslobodjenje . |
| 2 | In modern times , this has culminated in the emergence of the ‘ Servile State ’ in which the state is viewed as a corporate productive enterprise , Parliament has been reduced to a market in which private interests clamour for awards , and civil law has been displaced by the administration of instrumental rules and orders . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | While few throughout the country would still be prepared to wager against Rangers , it is interesting to note that the two main contenders have still to meet twice and that the points gap has been reduced to seven . |
| 5 | There were cracks in the walls and the steps up to the entrance had been reduced to an uneven and rocky slope . |
| 6 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) Cypress Semiconductor Corp , San Jose , says that its return to profitability in the first quarter shows that its restructuring efforts are working : headcount has been reduced to 1,394 in the quarter from 1,529 at the end of 1992 . |
| 7 | Although this may seen like an idyllic setting , the fact that the panda 's natural habitat has been reduced to this area is enough cause for alarm . |
| 8 | But the outright victory Garvey required to keep their championship flame alive eluded them , and the league battle has been reduced to a two-horse race . |
| 9 | The man 's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters . |
| 10 | New management meetings have been established : the management team has been reduced to Winter plus the Food and Beverage and Accommodation Managers . |
| 11 | Once again the war has been reduced to the status of a game , Hector 's childish and immature tone shows : |
| 12 | The reserve will be farmed in a way which benefits the bird , whose UK population has been reduced to 500 pairs , largely as a result of habitat destruction due to agricultural intensification . |
| 13 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
| 14 | Despite the lack of recovery through rehabilitation the hospital population had been reduced to 189 patients in 1982 . |
| 15 | The majority of the population had been reduced to a state of extreme poverty , an estimated 150,000 people had lost their jobs , and famine was reported in the north-west region . |
| 16 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is only because the duties of citizenship have been reduced to a minimum in those societies , with even voting being voluntary in most of them , that they survive as unitary states at all . |
| 18 | In both all the sensuous elements of the previous years have been banished ; colour has been reduced to a severe combination of browns , dull greens and greys . |
| 19 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 20 | The bowhead whale has been reduced to five per cent of its original population even though it lives in distant Arctic seas . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Without Ecuador , whose September decision to quit OPEC [ see p. 39120 ] was formally approved at this meeting , output had been reduced to around 24,700,000 bpd . |
| 23 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 24 | Evidently , the definition has been reduced to 65% of its original length . |
| 25 | The workforce has been reduced to some 6,100 . |
| 26 | After 18 months of monetary restraint , it was the fifth cut to have been effected since the beginning of 1990 ( by the end of the year the basic rate had been reduced to 12 per cent ) . |
| 27 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 28 | The union 's research officer and main advocate , David Feickert , bitterly attacked the way that energy policy had been reduced to a question of how to beat the miners . |
| 29 | Yet the passage quoted above implies a continuing belief in the meaningfulness of literature , and it would be fanciful to conclude from the new narrative 's questioning of realism that the novel has been reduced to a formalistic game , without reference to anything outside itself . |
| 30 | 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 . |