Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [been] reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martinho 's resignation was seen as representing the development of a long-term crisis within a party which had failed to find a suitable replacement for its original leader and whose popular support had been reduced to below 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 2 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 3 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After 18 months of monetary restraint , it was the fifth cut to have been effected since the beginning of 1990 ( by the end of the year the basic rate had been reduced to 12 per cent ) . |
| 6 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 7 | 7 Certificates at the end of the petition : ( a ) the period of search for prior petitions has been reduced to three years ; ( b ) where a statutory demand is based wholly or in part on a county court judgment the following certificate , which replaces the affidavit or county court search , is to be added : " I/We certify that on the day of 19 I/we attended on the County Court and was/were informed by an officer of the court that no money had been paid into court in the action or matter . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the mighty and majestic animal had been reduced to a pawn in the squalid affairs of men . |
| 9 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 10 | At Keepers Fold in Middlewich , Cheshire , the four-bedroom Denham has been reduced to £99,950 from £109,950 . |
| 11 | The reviewer of his book in the Edinburgh Review thought half of the thousands of imprisoned debtors had been reduced to their state by ‘ venial errors ’ or innocent misfortune . |
| 12 | So many dyslexic children have been reduced to a state of dreadful anxiety by teachers who 've called them stupid in front of the other children . |
| 13 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 14 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 15 | Since the 1987 general election the ranks of Conservative MPs have been reduced to a very small number . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Under the influence of opera and the culture it represents , most modern music has been reduced to the level of entertainment and deprived of its Dionysiac seriousness — except in Germany . |
| 18 | Some genuine truths have been reduced to cant and passed down without explanation . |
| 19 | However as each urban locality has been reduced to the status of a labour pool so they are now integrated not within the production process of capital but of wage-labour , within the sphere of civil society rather than of capitalist production per se . |
| 20 | Compulsory admission for treatment ( section 3 ) is possible , but the conditions are now more stringent than formerly and the periods of initial and subsequent detention have been reduced to six months , a further six months and then for one year at a time , and the patients ' rights of appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal have been strengthened . |