Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] reduce to [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
2 | That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world . |
3 | The balance-of-payments problem plainly can not be reduced to one of ‘ how to pay for essential imports ’ . |
4 | We must keep constantly in mind the idea that since these two aspects of the body are on different and incommunicable levels of being , they can not be reduced to one another . |
5 | As a result , each artist was chosen for at least four reasons , but with a common denominator : we decided to present individuals operating from an independent position , whose work has a certain degree of complexity and can not be reduced to one or two key ideas . |
6 | The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy . |
7 | To say that these factors of context , conjuncture and wider conditionality are ‘ extra-discursive ’ does not mean that discourses do not enter into their determination , only that they involve processes which can not be reduced to this effect . |