Example sentences of "be reduced [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your sum insured will not be reduced following payment of a claim provided that the freezer is in effective working order . |
| 2 | If you can not complete the declaration without qualification , the sum assured may also have to be reduced under your Bond . |
| 3 | The payment will be reduced under statutory provisions if the employee is approaching retirement age . |
| 4 | One unremarked consequence for both sexes , for example , is that since wives ' allowances can henceforth be set against investment income , there will be more non-taxpayers among bank and building society depositors — and the composite rate of tax on their yield will then be reduced for everybody . |
| 5 | But the company says that , as early as October 1981 , it suggested to the CSM that the recommended doses for the drug should be reduced for old people . |
| 6 | Administration and overhead costs to the builder will be reduced for such items as national insurance contributions , holidays with pay , sick pay , tool money and redundancy payments . |
| 7 | in calculating lost pension rights the correct approach is 1 ) apply the appropriate multiplier to the appropriate multiplicand 2 ) the appropriate multiplicand is the pursuers level of wage which would have been received if currently employed 3 ) allowing for all contingencies including the chance of obtaining a pension in the future the multiplier for a 48 year old was 6 4 ) the resulting figure should be reduced for the accelerated benefit bearing in mind that the pension would not have been paid before age 65 . |
| 8 | All the speeds will have to be reduced for all rolling stock used on that line which will increase the cost for uses of the of that service . |
| 9 | Among new measures ( i ) a new " tax exempt special savings account " would be introduced from January 1991 ; and ( ii ) the rate of pool betting duty would be reduced for a five-year period to release funds to be devoted to the improvement of safety and conditions at football grounds [ for April 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster see p. 36597 ] . |
| 10 | It was expected that due to this left hemispheric specialisation for verbal ability , the right field advantage would be reduced for the trigram task when subjects were shadowing auditory verbal material . |
| 11 | It also recommended that the cost of road fund licences be reduced for those vehicles which meet new stricter limits on emissions about to be agreed by the European Community , and that excise duty levied on diesel fuels be cut for those which meet EC standards . |
| 12 | But this year they announced the recession had hit investments mainly in property and so grants would be reduced for several years . |
| 13 | The fact that the rebate system can not deal with people on small incomes living in high valued houses should not mean that the tax burden itself needs to be reduced for these high-valued houses . |
| 14 | The conclusion to the argument will be that there is a specific form of violence of a political kind outside of state control which can not be reduced to crime . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world . |
| 17 | Most complicated jobs can be reduced to a sequence of relatively simple operations to be approached step by step . |
| 18 | Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The original legislation passed in 1985 stipulated that the deficit must be reduced to $36bn in the 1990 fiscal year which began on 1 October . |
| 21 | But if individual membership doubled — in line with Labour 's 1991 campaign target — the proportions would shift dramatically : union voting strength would then be reduced to 55 per cent , with constituency parties having a 45 per cent share . |
| 22 | The Cabinet shall be reduced to a minimum . |
| 23 | The balance-of-payments problem plainly can not be reduced to one of ‘ how to pay for essential imports ’ . |
| 24 | But particularly intriguing is the phenomenon of syncretisation itself , as an artistic process , and its relationship to meaning : the process whereby something new is created that can not simply be reduced to either side of two antagonistic forces , or returned to a former ‘ purity ’ . |
| 25 | The critique of Nietzsche 's apocalyptic aestheticism , with its injunction to build your dwelling on the slopes of Vesuvius , just can not be reduced to the cliché about Baudrillard fiddling while Rome burns with which the book closes . |
| 26 | The outcome of the talks remained unclear but leading figures in the opposition Civic Forum were optimistic that the Communists will be reduced to a minority in the new coalition government . |
| 27 | The opposition Civic Forum earlier described the talks as constructive , amid growing opposition optimism that the Communists would be reduced to a minority in the new government . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The US Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 stated that : ‘ … it shall be the immediate goal that the incidental kill or serious injury of marine mammals permitted in the course of commercial fishing operations be reduced to insignificant levels approaching zero morality . ' |
| 30 | In a belated attempt at conciliation , the Japanese Government announced in mid September that the drift-net fleet in the Tasman Sea for the 1989–90 season would be reduced to 20 vessels , in the hope that the South Pacific nations could be diverted from their diplomatic assault . |