Example sentences of "[noun sg] would be reduce to " in BNC.

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1 The punishment for this crime was to be docked his best wave , so his tally would be reduced to three against the other surfers ' four .
2 Both sides welcomed the Vietnamese commitment to withdraw their troops from Kampuchea ; the level of armed forces along the Sino-Soviet border would be reduced to a minimum , and any remaining territorial differences would be resolved on the basis of international law .
3 Ferenc Karpathi , then Defence Minister , announced on March 29 that national service would be reduced to 12 months from August and that soldiers would no longer have to carry out other types of service such as agricultural work .
4 The party and state apparatus that was responsible for the management of the economy would be reduced to about a tenth of its present size ; and democratic practices would be revived within the CPSU , primarily through party-wide discussions and votes on major issues .
5 In a belated attempt at conciliation , the Japanese Government announced in mid September that the drift-net fleet in the Tasman Sea for the 1989–90 season would be reduced to 20 vessels , in the hope that the South Pacific nations could be diverted from their diplomatic assault .
6 This material would be approximately 10 cm from the probe and 10 cm off its axis , and at this point the detector signal would be reduced to less than 5% of its value on the detector axis .
7 The bank would give him facilities to purchase the business to the extent of seventy five thousand pounds if he agreed to sell his property at and from the proceeds of sale to repay the bridging facility in its entirety and they would provide a sixteen thousand pounds business loan and overdraught facilities to be reduced by five thousand pounds within a few days and if the six thousand pounds rent deposit was not required then the business loan would be reduced to ten thousand pounds .
8 The SPÖ and ÖVP reached agreement on Oct. 22 after lengthy negotiations on a Sch636,000 million ( about US$53,600 million ) budget in which the deficit would be reduced to Sch62,000 million ( 3.5 per cent of gross national product , with a further reduction to 3 per cent in 1992 ) .
9 The sentence would be reduced to two years , with the balance of the sentence remaining to be served suspended ( the appellant having served six months ) .
10 One would never have expected that the author of Tintern Abbey would be reduced to this sort of stage-management !
11 If the interests of the members of society could be treated as those of a ‘ representative ’ individual , then the role of the state would be reduced to that of efficiently carrying out agreed decisions .
12 The number would be reduced to thirty .
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