Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [not/n't] be reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base cost of the qualifying investment can not be reduced to less than zero by the rolled-over chargeable gain . |
| 2 | The complicated narrative of the emancipation can not be reduced to the proposition that Alexander sensed he was facing a crisis and believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 3 | Lawrence Stenhouse ( 1970/1 ) has seriously doubted whether the articulation of behavioural objectives is practical in ( for instance ) the teaching of Hamlet : The content of a work of art can not be reduced to students ' behaviours . |
| 4 | Health policy can not be reduced to a purely rational technical process even if the means were available . |
| 5 | What we are looking at is the development of a decentralised approach to management which by definition can not be reduced to a few single issues , although the level of management self-awareness is critical in all of them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | technology can not be reduced to machines . |
| 8 | This somewhat schematic listing will serve to illustrate that sexual behaviour and its regulation can not be reduced to a simple explanatory factor ; nor can there be a simple , straightforward history . |