Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments , which do n't really say much . |
| 2 | She had been reduced to using ploys straight out of spy stories . |
| 3 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 4 | They were used as infantry at Gallipoli , where they landed at Suvla Bay on 20/21 August 1915 , serving with distinction where they took Chocolate Hill and Scimitar Hill with the bayonet ; by 1 November 1915 , they had been reduced to sixty . |
| 5 | Once amongst the world 's greatest blue-water navigators , guided by wave patterns and the clues in seaweed and bird droppings , the Bugis had now lost so much confidence in their old ways that they had been reduced to coast-hugging , on the principle that if their ships sank they at least had a chance of making it ashore alive . |
| 6 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 7 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 8 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 9 | Latterly , they have been reduced to boasting of the spectacles they organize — the Highland Games ( in Scotland in the summer ) , the Oxbridge boat race on the Thames and the horse raced called the Grand National , which should have taken place last Saturday . |
| 10 | Some of these recipes contain , fat , sugar or flour — often forbidden in other diets — but they have been reduced to a minimum to provide tasty food that 's also low in calories . |
| 11 | A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers . |
| 12 | Add the sherry to the pan , and stir until it has been reduced to a glaze . |
| 13 | The operations of the mind which he describes are reduced to two fairly simple activities . |
| 14 | They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + . |
| 15 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 16 | Five years later it had been reduced to £212,000 . |
| 17 | At the time of the Arab invasion in 639 the population has been estimated at between 20 and 30 million , but when Napoleon invaded the decaying Ottoman Egypt in 1798 it had been reduced to some two and a half million . |
| 18 | He had been reduced to seven stone by his ill-health and was some twenty years their junior . |
| 19 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 20 | A peerless champion of his own era , he had been reduced to an ineffectual has-been by the modern gunslingers . |
| 21 | Er , it used to be those over eighty , but it 's been reduced to those over seventy five . |
| 22 | So he 's been reduced to other expedients . ’ |