Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be reduced " in BNC.

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1 This complexity must not be reduced to simple hypocrisy , although there is of course some of that .
2 Conversely , arguments may be made that barriers to takeovers should not be reduced , as the threat of takeovers leads to ‘ short-term ’ corporate behaviour .
3 His sentence should not be reduced on appeal .
4 I support his view that the service provided in the Thames regions should not be reduced .
5 As it is , Back Benchers have precious little time and it should not be reduced further .
6 It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future .
7 In the modern world , they were held to have become so totally interchangeable that there was no value which could not be reduced to this cycle of exchange .
8 The social reality , for me , resided in the complex of interpretations , which could not be reduced to any one of the interpretations which composed it .
9 The Formalist strategy for dealing with the problem of definition not only had the virtue of ensuring that literature could not be reduced to anything else , but proved also to be immensely productive in the elaboration of every aspect of Formalist theory .
10 Defence Minister Moshe Arens had successfully argued that defence spending could not be reduced in the light of the ongoing Gulf crisis .
11 She would not be reduced to skulking in the back room of her own shop .
12 Due to the problems with implementing the peace process , it was reported on May 22 that the complement of 290 military personnel who formed part of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) mission would not be reduced in June but would continue their duties until September .
13 Finally , it was very much hoped that financial provision in the Groups for this proven and valuable programme would not be reduced .
14 We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks .
15 The benefit ca n't be reduced then to meet the fund in the way that er ,
16 Yet the aesthetic will not be reduced .
17 Your sum insured will not be reduced following payment of a claim provided that the freezer is in effective working order .
18 But , in either case , the investment advantages will not be reduced in any way .
19 Will he , if it remains voluntary , reassure farmers who would like to take up the scheme that the payments will not be reduced during the period for which they take it up — that is , for five or even 10 years ?
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The balance-of-payments problem plainly can not be reduced to one of ‘ how to pay for essential imports ’ .
23 The critique of Nietzsche 's apocalyptic aestheticism , with its injunction to build your dwelling on the slopes of Vesuvius , just can not be reduced to the cliché about Baudrillard fiddling while Rome burns with which the book closes .
24 What we are looking at is the development of a decentralised approach to management which by definition can not be reduced to a few single issues , although the level of management self-awareness is critical in all of them .
25 The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy .
26 Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition .
27 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 .
28 It therefore follows that if car speeds can not be reduced , large residential areas can make gains in both their environmental traffic qualities and in their safety only by the dilution of the shared-space ideal by the provision of footpaths as pedestrian refuges .
29 Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party .
30 Fifthly , the production and determination of ideology is mediated through human practice which can not be reduced solely to the reproduction of material relations .
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