Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be reduce to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike their wimpish , ambitious colleagues in the Lower House , they can not be reduced to tears or submission by bullying whips . |
| 2 | technology can not be reduced to machines . |
| 3 | Lawrence Stenhouse ( 1970/1 ) has seriously doubted whether the articulation of behavioural objectives is practical in ( for instance ) the teaching of Hamlet : The content of a work of art can not be reduced to students ' behaviours . |
| 4 | The conclusion to the argument will be that there is a specific form of violence of a political kind outside of state control which can not be reduced to crime . |
| 5 | Power is not unitary , it does not reside in the stats , it can not be reduced to class relations ; it is not something to hold or use . |