Example sentences of "can be reduce to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most complicated jobs can be reduced to a sequence of relatively simple operations to be approached step by step . |
| 2 | Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group . |
| 3 | According to at least some physicists , life can be reduced to a matter of information-processing . |
| 4 | The rest of it can be reduced to a combination of techniques and practice . |
| 5 | And , although I agree with the author that the Shaw-Mohler equation is characterised by ‘ its utter simplicity ’ , it seems a little brutal to derive it in a page of text by introducing 11 variables , when the equation itself can be reduced to three . |
| 6 | It is perhaps worth saying again that this argument for a rational basis for pedagogy does not imply that everything about good teaching can be reduced to what is rational . |
| 7 | By carefully controlling the drying rates in large kilns the time for seasoning can be reduced to a matter of days or weeks . |
| 8 | At this size , the feeding can be reduced to twice over a three day period . |
| 9 | However , they do involve exploring the role of knowledge and ideas in society and do not accept that all aspects of social relations can be reduced to the economic relations of the mode of production . |
| 10 | Given these ideas about ideology , Marxists argue that morality can be reduced to the conscious articulation of class interests , the unconscious acceptance of hegemonic power , or the consequence of structurally generated false consciousness . |
| 11 | Texts are always ambiguous since their meaning depends not only on the lexical and syntactical structure , in which ambiguity , according to Olson and others , can be reduced to a minimum , but also on paralinguistic , contextual structures , of which interpretation can never be exhaustive . |
| 12 | Modern microprocessors and computer technology have made such rapid advances that telecommunications and internal communications systems are now in compact units without plugs , switches , or buttons : just small keyboards with touch-sensitive depressions , some with small visual display units ( VDUs ) which can show at a glance the status of all calls being handled and prompt the operator through every procedure so that training can be reduced to a minimum . |
| 13 | If a passage can be reduced to a set of elementary propositions of the kind approximately represented in [ 9 ] , can we not regard this as the neutral , " styleless " version against which all other paraphrases , such as [ 8 ] , are stylistically marked in varying degrees ? |
| 14 | Now in this case D can be reduced to a standard canonical form E by a similar transformation unc where Y has precisely the same block diagonal form as D ; in effect , each diagonal block is resolved into its own canonical form . |
| 15 | Similarly , old cars can be reduced to they , and crash violently to disappeared ( the sentence as a whole is not reducible ) . |
| 16 | There have been fierce debates over the differences between objects as sign and as symbol , and over degrees of iconicity , most of which can be reduced to levels of abstraction involved in the process by which objects become vehicles of meaning ( see Lyons 1977 for survey ) . |
| 17 | But on the level of epistemology all music is relatively autonomous ; no sound-structures can be reduced to social , economic or ideological determinants . |
| 18 | The interference of one surface with another can be reduced to handling only those sub-surfaces where possible interference exists . |
| 19 | Now that new evidence , either not released before or else wilfully ignored by earlier historians , is available , these charges can be reduced to their proper perspective . |
| 20 | An abstract reaction mechanism , where the chemical reactions are at most second order and give a detailed mass balance when the system is closed , can be reduced to the system [ 40 ] : ( 2.5 ) unc The unc are concentrations of reactants that are held constant , giving an open system , and the hi are rate constants : thus the a and the hi are positive . |
| 21 | Although emissions of carbon monoxide , hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen can be reduced to a certain extent by modifications to the engine combustion , meeting the emission standards requires the fitting of catalytic converters . |
| 22 | These , together with marksheets and LEA reports , are produced on a turnround basis ; specific computer files are created at the point of printing the forms so that subsequent data entry can be reduced to a minimum of keystrokes . |
| 23 | … flows of capital investment , population , technological information , generated energy , water , and the like , together with such constraints as involve interest policies and the mechanisms of group decision-making , can be reduced to comparable units so as to be structured into energy linkages similar to those of ecosystems is clearly an illusion … |
| 24 | Ignoring , for the present , the body forces , consider any area S in the body with normal n , and let Q be a point on S. Then in statics it is shown that any system of forces acting on a body can be reduced to the sum of a force F , say , and a couple G acting at the point Q. In the limit of infinitesimal area the ratio F/S tends to a limit — , the traction at Q , while in classical elasticity the ratio G/S is supposed to vanish . |
| 25 | Any quadratic form can be reduced to such a canonical form by suitable linear transformations ) . |
| 26 | Here we shall briefly remind the reader of the theory of one dimension , outline that for three dimensions ( noting in passing that it can be reduced to the product of one-dimensional walks ) and then give the Markoff chain theory , which is often not included in elementary tests . |
| 27 | The possibility of errors can never be totally eliminated from any copying process , although their probability can be reduced to low levels . |
| 28 | Overall , however , a good number of your executables can be reduced to as much as half their original size . |
| 29 | Demonstrating that the 3D turnaround time can be reduced to two months has given the Vietnam team confidence , Nunn says , to use this method again on their second 3D survey in Vietnam over a prospect in Block 5–2 . |
| 30 | Your probationary period can be reduced to 6 months if you have demonstrated that you fully meet the requirements in terms of performance , conduct , attendance and timekeeping . |