Example sentences of "[verb] have be reduce [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Up to the middle of the seventeenth century they overran only western Siberia where , for instance , the number of Kets is said to have been reduced by half . |
2 | From its peak combat strength of around 20,000 at the end of the Marcos era in 1985 , the guerrillas were thought to have been reduced to some 13,000 fighters by mid-1992 . |
3 | Entries for the Diamond Sculls have been reduced from 24 to 16 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Production of jute ( the country 's principal export commodity ) was estimated to have been reduced to 50 per cent of the projected total for 1989 of 4,500,000 bales . |