Example sentences of "had been reduced to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory had been reduced to simply shrugging her shoulders in reply , stuck for an answer , and that had depressed her still more . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Eastern spinner dolphins had been reduced to about 20 per cent of their original numbers , and the Costa Rican spinner dolphin ( a subspecies ) numbered only 9000 . |
| 4 | Martinho 's resignation was seen as representing the development of a long-term crisis within a party which had failed to find a suitable replacement for its original leader and whose popular support had been reduced to below 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | Water levels in the drains had been reduced to only about one foot and , in view of the conditions , it was surprising that anything at all was caught . |
| 6 | 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 . |