Example sentences of "[noun] have be reduce [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE 20-storey building has been reduced to rubble , newsprint supplies are fast running out , there is very little electricity , communications are almost non-existent and every day journalists risk their lives getting the news into , and out of , Oslobodjenje . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Scottish Members of Parliament has been reduced to the nefarious nine , and now that the Secretary of State for Scotland and virtually every one of that nefarious nine trembles on the edge of the abyss of a total political wipeout in Scotland , will the Government finally see the sense of coming to the negotiating table and talking about Scottish government ? |
| 4 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 5 | The relevant income has been reduced by the amount of the actual tax payable ( not the amount brought into charge to tax ) . |
| 6 | As a consequence , the department has been reduced from 19 to six — departmental manager and five supervisors . |
| 7 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | While few throughout the country would still be prepared to wager against Rangers , it is interesting to note that the two main contenders have still to meet twice and that the points gap has been reduced to seven . |
| 10 | In Yeovil , in the constituency of the leader of the Liberal Democratic party , the number of patients waiting for more than 12 months has been reduced by 45 per cent. , and the total waiting list is down by 10 per cent . |
| 11 | In Kingston , for example , the list of those waiting more than 12 months has been reduced by 77 per cent . |
| 12 | But Mr Foster said yesterday he knew of situations in other parts of the country where waiting lists had been reduced by unacceptable tactics . |
| 13 | The entire Cabinet resigned to facilitate the re-shuffle and Prime Minister Michael Manley announced that the total number of ministers , ministers of state and parliamentary secretaries had been reduced from 39 to 28 . |
| 14 | As a whole the argyrophil cell densities had been reduced by 22% during the three years in question . |
| 15 | Rangers piled on the pressure in the last 15 minutes and an instinctive Mathers save kept out Mark Hateley but the big Rangers frontman had the final say after Dundee had been reduced to ten men . |
| 16 | There were cracks in the walls and the steps up to the entrance had been reduced to an uneven and rocky slope . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Civil Service manpower has been reduced by almost a quarter . |
| 20 | The length of life we can expect to enjoy has gone up markedly over that period and the number of children who die before the age of five in developing countries has been reduced by half . |
| 21 | But the outright victory Garvey required to keep their championship flame alive eluded them , and the league battle has been reduced to a two-horse race . |
| 22 | In the UK , that means a 25MHz AV 4300 server with 1Mb RAM and 332Mb has been reduced from £12,500 to £9,000 , the same price as the AV 4100 entry-level system , still available but in effect now obsolete . |
| 23 | Unions have lost powers and the numbers of disputes has declined ; similarly the public sector has been reduced in size . |
| 24 | The number of blocks has been reduced by 25 per cent to 125 and the number of blocks with working interests of 10 per cent or less has been reduced by 42 per cent . |
| 25 | Imports of vegetables from the former COMECON ( Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ) countries had fallen , and fruit imports from Cuba had been reduced by 75 per cent . |
| 26 | The man 's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters . |
| 27 | These steps failed , however , to increase confidence , and on Sept. 13 it was announced that the central rate for the lira within the framework of the ERM had been reduced by 3.5 per cent and that those for the currencies of the other participants had been increased by 3.5 per cent , representing an effective 7 per cent devaluation of the lira . |
| 28 | The carrot cakes had been reduced to crumbs and the coffee cups were empty . |
| 29 | By the late twelfth century , even in England , the function of the suitors had been reduced to this : a committee of them provided information to royal justices in a court which had become effectively or actually an offshoot of the king 's court . |
| 30 | The Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge ( UK ) announced on Aug. 31 that measurements taken on UK nuclear submarines travelling below the Greenland ice cap revealed that the thickness of the ice had been reduced from 6-7 metres in 1976 to 4-5 metres in 1987 . |