Example sentences of "reduced [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent Lipid Research Clinics primary prevention programme ( Lipid Research Clinics Program , 1984 ) , in support of other studies ( Dayton et al , 1969 ; Committee of Principal Investigators , 1978 ) has demonstrated a significant reduction in the incidence of all coronary artery disease events among patients in whom serum cholesterol was effectively reduced using a combination of diet and cholestyramine . |
| 2 | The data are reduced using standard procedures to produce Bouguer gravity anomalies to an overall accuracy of 1 m Gal . |
| 3 | The collection of characters Γ y is a reducible representation , and is then reduced using the following equation . |
| 4 | The report by Terramares , a group of Oxford scientists , says many of the deaths would be preventable if discharges were reduced using available technology . |
| 5 | She was a confident , outgoing girl who usually interacted quite happily with people of either sex and any age , but she was reduced to silence in Luke Scott 's presence , so deeply did he disturb her . |
| 6 | Laura found herself reduced to silence , her heart pounding like a sledge-hammer . |
| 7 | He wrote the poetry of social conscience in the remarkable Salisbury Plain , and imbibed the radicalism of friends and acquaintances in London ; but the vagabond existence to which he was increasingly reduced lacked in every sense a clear direction . |
| 8 | Generalization would also be reduced given the scheme shown in fig. 5.11(c) . |
| 9 | Further cuts in the last six months — primarily from the closure of Ravenscraig — have reduced manning levels to about 42,000 . |
| 10 | The new technology available in the 1970s offered the promise of massively reduced manning levels and higher productivity . |
| 11 | Management can argue that the plant has been losing money : the unions can point to their ( not always peaceable ) acceptance of previous cost-cutting , which has reduced manning to just a few hundred from the thousands once employed there . |
| 12 | York and Exeter have been mentioned as areas where traffic-calming schemes have reduced speeding and deterred motorists from coming into the city centres . |
| 13 | Copied ad nauseum , Whitfield 's funkrock workouts became a monotonous grind , while Bell 's crisp , quasi-classical arranging was caricatured by lesser talents and eventually reduced to slush . |
| 14 | From living a life of relative financial ease , she has been reduced to near poverty , having to leave the family home and moving into rented accommodation . |
| 15 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 16 | The love-sick dog went completely off his food , finding his loveable lump more appetising than a bowl of doggy chunks in gravy and soon he was reduced to skin and bone , a mere shadow of the beast his family had grown to know and love . |
| 17 | The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively , let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world — probably because they have not reached such a level for decades ; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future . . |
| 18 | The seminar fee has been reduced to encourage as many members and non-members as possible to register and attend . |
| 19 | Where half or full board has been booked , flight timings may necessitate the loss of one meal ; in such cases the holiday price has been reduced to compensate . |
| 20 | Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built . |
| 21 | The take-home pay of the young will have to be substantially reduced to provide pensions for the increased numbers of elderly . |
| 22 | The company says it has enhanced the user interface and reduced install time . |
| 23 | The level to which noise needs to be reduced depends to some extent on the noise generated by the occupants : for , an elderly couple living next door to a young and lively family would complain about the noise from next door , but if the old people were replaced by another young and lively family , they would probably not find the noise excessive . |
| 24 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 25 | That heroic total-amputee had been rescued at the same time as the sculpts of the Sagramoso dynasty were all reduced to dust . |
| 26 | The Slaaneshi Champion Alberecht Numan challenged him to battle , but he and all his followers were in an instant reduced to dust . |
| 27 | However , the scarcity of craters on the maria makes it difficult to understand how lava could have been extensively fractured leave alone reduced to dust . |
| 28 | The oral papillae are reduced resembling irregularly arranged , enlarged granules . |
| 29 | The disk is covered by a dense coating of simple rods and trifid and bifid spinelets which are sometimes reduced resembling small granules , the proportions of each varies some specimens having nearly all rods . |
| 30 | As the glider slows down the braking should be reduced to avoid lifting the tail . |