Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One question , therefore , is whether the age should be reduced to 16 , which is the general age of consent for sexual activity . |
| 2 | The judges at the Rutland Forest Eyre in 1269 ordered that they should be reduced to the customary and reasonable number , which was five walking foresters and one riding forester with one page , and that no walking forester in that forest was in future to have pages under him . |
| 3 | Capital grants for drainage under both AHDS and AHGS schemes in the LFA should be reduced to 30% of costs in the proposed ‘ mountain zone ’ and ‘ intermediate zone , , and to 22 ½%; of costs ( the level outside the LFA ) in the ‘ marginal zone ’ in order to reduce incentives to drain upland wetlands and species-rich wet pastures/meadows . |
| 4 | To help the learner , complex examples should be reduced to the essential characteristics and differences emphasised . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | this threshold for worldwide turnover is to be reviewed by the Council before 21 December 1993 and the Commission has stated its view that it should be reduced to 2,000 million ecu ( roughly £1400 million ) . |
| 7 | Their jurisdiction should be raised from 40s to £10 ; similar courts should be set up in every county ; the jury should be reduced to four . |
| 8 | It requires a winter resting period when the temperature should be reduced to below 60°F . |
| 9 | If this is not accepted , the rate should be reduced to , perhaps , 15% . |
| 10 | If this is not accepted , the rate should be reduced to , perhaps , 15% |
| 11 | Ian McGeechan , while agreeing that the five-point try would provide an incentive for attacking rugby , feels strongly that the conversion should be reduced to one point ( as do the NZRFU ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 14 | Water temperature of 84°F is too high for lush plant growth — many plants will not tolerate such high temperatures — and should be reduced to 78 or 80°f . |
| 15 | Most of these are now in A4 sire but , if they are not , they should be reduced to this sire . |
| 16 | The new deal says that the number of hours worked , as opposed to those on duty , should be reduced to 60 as soon as practicable . |
| 17 | Both Committees further considered whether sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 should continue to be punishable with life imprisonment or whether the age limit for this offence should be reduced to 12 . |
| 18 | I am satisfied on all the evidence that the promise here was that the ground rent should be reduced to £1,250 a year as a temporary expedient while the block of flats was not fully , or substantially fully let , owing to the conditions prevailing . |
| 19 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 20 | If intervention remains , it should be reduced to the original concept of a safety net for use in extreme emergencies . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A military appeal court in Bucharest ruled on June 3 that a 20-year prison sentence passed on Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the overthrown and executed President Nicolae Ceausescu , should be reduced to 16 years , followed by eight years ' loss of civil liberties . |
| 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 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 25 | In this situation , the duration time should be reduced to a few minutes greater than the current elapsed time . |
| 26 | This should be reduced to 20 per cent below the current level by the year 2005 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So therefore our contention that the figure should be reduced to a hundred and two hectares . |
| 30 | The original legislation passed in 1985 stipulated that the deficit must be reduced to $36bn in the 1990 fiscal year which began on 1 October . |