Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [be] reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | Unreliable , complex intuitions must be reduced to reliable , simple ones . |
| 3 | In view of the substantial sums of money involved , risks must be reduced to the absolute minimum . |
| 4 | In order to harmonize value added tax rates within the EC , VAT on items such as flowers , building land and artworks was increased ( a move expected to raise an extra F2,000 million in revenue in the second half of 1991 ) ; VAT on cars would be reduced to 18.6 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 5 | Which means my overseas trips will be reduced to two or three a year . |
| 6 | Similarly , old cars can be reduced to they , and crash violently to disappeared ( the sentence as a whole is not reducible ) . |
| 7 | The opposition Civic Forum earlier described the talks as constructive , amid growing opposition optimism that the Communists would be reduced to a minority in the new government . |
| 8 | The outcome of the talks remained unclear but leading figures in the opposition Civic Forum were optimistic that the Communists will be reduced to a minority in the new coalition government . |
| 9 | Overall , however , a good number of your executables can be reduced to as much as half their original size . |
| 10 | Commenting on Melby 's ‘ pessimistic but valuable appraisal ’ the US Minister at Saigon ( Heath ) felt it necessary to balance it with local French military opinion that , barring Chinese intervention or a massive increase in their aid to the Vietminh , guerrilla and terrorist activities could be reduced to a policing problem within two years . |
| 11 | The argument that the court should take account of the fact that the wearing of a seat belt would have caused other injuries of a different nature was rejected as a matter of principle in Patience v Andrews [ 1983 ] RTR 447 : it is respectfully submitted that this decision is wrong and does not give effect to the provision in s1 of the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 , that damages should be reduced to such extent as the court thinks just and equitable . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In introducing the legislation as a whole , the Minister underlined our theme : ‘ It is very desirable that interest rates should be reduced to the lowest possible level in order to encourage investment and development in the country . |
| 14 | To the extent that agreement is reached which goes beyond the provisions of a pre-existing document or displaces the relevant provisions of the Partnership Act , the agreed terms should be reduced to writing to reduce the scope for subsequent dispute . |
| 15 | Thus , entries such as 870 , 1076 , 1521 , 2774 , 2163 having four effective digits would become 900 , 1100 , 1500 , 2800 , 2200 but 1638 , 1797 , 1025 , 1672 having only three effective digits would be reduced to 1640 , 1800 , 1030 , 1670 |
| 16 | But ultimately most theories will be reduced to their functional component . |
| 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 | King said that the existing army strength of 155,000 personnel would be reduced to 116,000 by 1992 , and the combined armed forces would shrink by 62,000 from its present level of 308,000 . |
| 19 | There can be no further argument , except perhaps to say that to preserve the symmetry and consistency of match conditions between first-class cricket and Test cricket , a tenet so assiduously sought by the working party in its proposals , the duration of Test matches should be reduced to four days ! |
| 20 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 21 | Now that new evidence , either not released before or else wilfully ignored by earlier historians , is available , these charges can be reduced to their proper perspective . |
| 22 | To help the learner , complex examples should be reduced to the essential characteristics and differences emphasised . |
| 23 | According to the government 's privatization strategy , by 1994 the proportion of state assets should be reduced to below 50 per cent , with foreign ownership reaching 25 per cent . |
| 24 | But on the level of epistemology all music is relatively autonomous ; no sound-structures can be reduced to social , economic or ideological determinants . |
| 25 | Letraset can be used , in which case the letters may be reduced to 3 mm . |
| 26 | ALTs with guards with boolean components may be reduced to IF combinations of ALTs with simple guards by the law ( 2.4 ) unc In other words , a guard with a boolean component may be executed if and only if the boolean is true . |
| 27 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 28 | The school 's values can be reduced to one rule , says the head ; do to others as you would have them do to you . |
| 29 | For example if the first two phonemes in the string are the set of possible interpretations will be reduced to all words beginning re - such as repudiate , rebuke , etc . |
| 30 | 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 . |