Example sentences of "to be reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably in such circumstances , the detail of practice suffers a reduction to enable these charged and emotional situations to be handled more easily and to allow the complexities of social events to be reduced to the simplicities of narrative necessary for the file of evidence . |
| 2 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 3 | In the Sandys doctrine their roles were reversed : primacy was to be given to the nuclear weapon , and conventional forces were to be reduced to a supporting role . |
| 4 | For us to be reduced to the level of a Balkan state is very hard . |
| 5 | Instead their lasting legacy and major influence was the legitimacy that they gave for local politics to be reduced to urban politics , which in turn consisted solely of issues concerning collective consumption . |
| 6 | Collins wants to push through a motion calling for lead levels in petrol to be reduced to 0–15 grams per litre ( the level Britain intends to impose by 1985 ) . |
| 7 | This is only really effective if used in conjunction with a special radio outfit which allows the tail rotor pitch to be reduced to zero when the motor is stopped . |
| 8 | To be reduced to a collection of single-parent families can not be a future the monarchy relishes . |
| 9 | A quarto is likely to need all of twelve inches , a folio correspondingly more , if you are not to be reduced to laying it on its side . |
| 10 | If they mine there the whole of Tomduff is going to be reduced to one big ugly hole with no plant or bird life ’ . |
| 11 | Staff were more likely to be reduced to selling snacks during break , which was much less profitable than computing services and much more demeaning for academics . |
| 12 | The conflation of the two confuses the issue , and reinforces the tendency for the behaviour to be reduced to an inner state — and hence rendered less open to investigation . |
| 13 | Where feminist Lacanianism is more socially oriented , the unconscious tends to be reduced to an artefact of social relations . |
| 14 | The proportion without electricity was to be reduced to less than one in ten in the first decade of nationalisation . |
| 15 | The world 's so-called greatest deliberative body would have to be reduced to the status of a ministerial arm of the White House . ’ |
| 16 | Most castles , it is true , were to be reduced to the state they were in fifteen days before the outbreak of war ; but others were to be razed to the ground . |
| 17 | This suspicion is particularly strong among biblical scholars , and one of them , Principal T.M. Knox , said more than twenty years ago ‘ The spirit moveth where it listeth and is not to be reduced to the numerical terms with which alone a computer can cope ’ . |
| 18 | These groupings are not to be reduced to those of class , although the dominant relations and forces of production fundamentally structure the form that their struggles will take . |
| 19 | The discursive and non-discursive structures within which such constitution occurs , particularly within the family , are in turn , related to , but not to be reduced to , the dominant relations/forces of production . |
| 20 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |
| 21 | One of the constraints it suffers is the dominance of a history which tends to be reduced to that of either missions or colonial discovery , with the implications that the Solomon Islanders themselves were a stagnant and unchanging people prior to the arrival of Europeans , a view reinforced by some of the dominant synchronic traditions in social anthropology . |
| 22 | The shape and character of ethnic cultural formations is too complex to be reduced to formulas around festivals , religions , world-views and lifestyles . |
| 23 | In the liberal view , the historical process is altogether too rich and complex to be reduced to class struggle . |
| 24 | They are not to be reduced to mere puppets responding to influence from below . |
| 25 | Instead , the governance of academic institutions is liable to be reduced to mere technique , under the control of managers with an eye on the bottom line . |
| 26 | The financial and technical advantages of bureaucratic organisations usually outweigh the disadvantages , which need to be reduced to acceptable proportions . |
| 27 | We think nothing of handing over enormous sums of money to be reduced to screaming and tearstained wrecks , as short-wave diathermy currents course down our follicles . |
| 28 | In time , after strictly avoiding sugar and white flour , the number of other " binge " foods may be found to be reduced to zero . |
| 29 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 30 | The European Commission wants that content to be reduced to a very small amount by 1995-96 . |