Example sentences of "have be reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Dutchman 's goal has been reduced to two clear rounds in this evening 's Modern Alarms Cup and victory in the Grand Prix . |
| 2 | Today people are wondering why a country which , according to Mr Lawson not long ago , was experiencing an ‘ economic miracle ’ , has been reduced to such public squalor — dirty , violent , congested and broken down , prone even to third-world disasters ? |
| 3 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 4 | And the mighty British Medical Association ( BMA ) , whose harrumphing once looked like destroying the programme , has been reduced to squabbling about doctors ' terms of employment . |
| 5 | Using a solvent called AB57 — which was originally developed for cleaning marble and is a mixture of sodium and ammonium bicarbonates suspended in a cellulose gel — the conservation team has drastically altered the previously perceived tonal representations and , as one expert put it , the fresco ‘ has been reduced to a smudged painting with Disney colour ’ . |
| 6 | The legal authority of the Lander has been reduced to legal administrative authority by the federal administration . |
| 7 | It is therefore all too easy to convert to arable farming and the prairie in particular has been reduced to fragments between the expanding farms . |
| 8 | Yet the passage quoted above implies a continuing belief in the meaningfulness of literature , and it would be fanciful to conclude from the new narrative 's questioning of realism that the novel has been reduced to a formalistic game , without reference to anything outside itself . |
| 9 | In this case the residual d Q is 20 ( figure 10.7 ) , compared with an original d Q of 26 ( derived from column 2 of figure 10.2 ) ; the spread has been reduced to around three-quarters its original size . |
| 10 | The bowhead whale has been reduced to five per cent of its original population even though it lives in distant Arctic seas . |
| 11 | The counter-argument rests on the Bruges Group 's proposition that everything important is now decided in Brussels , and that Westminster has been reduced to the status of a rate-capped local authority . |
| 12 | From 6 January 1993 , the ‘ official rate of interest ’ has been reduced to 8.25% from 9% , bringing it more into line with mortgage rates . |
| 13 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 14 | New management meetings have been established : the management team has been reduced to Winter plus the Food and Beverage and Accommodation Managers . |
| 15 | Add the sherry to the pan , and stir until it has been reduced to a glaze . |
| 16 | The workforce has been reduced to some 6,100 . |
| 17 | Although this may seen like an idyllic setting , the fact that the panda 's natural habitat has been reduced to this area is enough cause for alarm . |
| 18 | A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers . |
| 19 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 20 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) Cypress Semiconductor Corp , San Jose , says that its return to profitability in the first quarter shows that its restructuring efforts are working : headcount has been reduced to 1,394 in the quarter from 1,529 at the end of 1992 . |
| 21 | Here , according to Mr Kaplan , ‘ men have been isolated by poverty and ethnic rivalry , dooming them to hate ’ , and ‘ politics has been reduced to a level of near-anarchy . ’ |
| 22 | In modern times , this has culminated in the emergence of the ‘ Servile State ’ in which the state is viewed as a corporate productive enterprise , Parliament has been reduced to a market in which private interests clamour for awards , and civil law has been displaced by the administration of instrumental rules and orders . |
| 23 | The proportion of local authority expenditure supported by grants has been reduced to a figure Layfield thought could only be reached with the aid of LIT ( Layfield 1976 : 184 ) . |
| 24 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 25 | Evidently , the definition has been reduced to 65% of its original length . |
| 26 | However as each urban locality has been reduced to the status of a labour pool so they are now integrated not within the production process of capital but of wage-labour , within the sphere of civil society rather than of capitalist production per se . |
| 27 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
| 28 | In this paper , animal behaviour , in particular learning and memory , has been reduced to the behaviour of proteins , whether individual or assembled in superstructures … the interplay of billions of such molecular events , ensured by appropriate wiring , brings about complex forms of learning in animals and in man . |
| 29 | At Keepers Fold in Middlewich , Cheshire , the four-bedroom Denham has been reduced to £99,950 from £109,950 . |
| 30 | 7 Certificates at the end of the petition : ( a ) the period of search for prior petitions has been reduced to three years ; ( b ) where a statutory demand is based wholly or in part on a county court judgment the following certificate , which replaces the affidavit or county court search , is to be added : " I/We certify that on the day of 19 I/we attended on the County Court and was/were informed by an officer of the court that no money had been paid into court in the action or matter . |