Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carrot cakes had been reduced to crumbs and the coffee cups were empty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By 1937 the number of brewery firms had been reduced to 1,000 , and this process continued in the immediate post-war years . |
| 4 | With ITV and long-time sponsors Pearl Assurance switching their allegiance to the attractive invitation meeting in Glasgow last week , the championships have been reduced to a sorry state . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Downing Street said the Cabinet were ‘ very pleased ’ that interest rates had been reduced to 10 per cent . |
| 7 | In III Corps , one battalion of the Prussian Leib Grenadiers had been reduced to 196 strong in the fighting for Douaumont village , and another regiment of the same brigade had , by the second day of March , lost 38 officers and 1,151 men . |
| 8 | Troop numbers had been reduced to 1986 levels , and there would be no recruitment in 1991 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And the right whale has been so heavily hunted that its numbers have been reduced to three per cent of original stock . |
| 11 | Some genuine truths have been reduced to cant and passed down without explanation . |
| 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 | Nevertheless , following the exit from commercial property , which realised £100m , borrowings have been reduced to £168m , leaving gearing at 50 p.c . |
| 14 | By a curious paradox of war , the Schlieffen Plan had been completely reversed : the Germans had been reduced to stalemate in the west while in the east they had inflicted an almost knock-out blow . |
| 15 | Water levels in the drains had been reduced to only about one foot and , in view of the conditions , it was surprising that anything at all was caught . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 18 | The proportion of local authority expenditure supported by grants has been reduced to a figure Layfield thought could only be reached with the aid of LIT ( Layfield 1976 : 184 ) . |
| 19 | The inhabitants made it clear that their commons had been reduced to between half and a third of their former size . |
| 20 | In his report Layfield concluded that there was only a one in forty chance that a coal station would be cheaper than Sizewell B. By the time that the then Energy Minister , Peter Walker , gave his seal of approval to the project in 1987 the odds had been reduced to one in seven . |
| 21 | Johannsen was in trouble : his shield of rocks had been reduced to a line of rubble , his combat suit had been torn , and his exposed skin had been wounded by flying splinters of stone . |
| 22 | Eastern spinner dolphins had been reduced to about 20 per cent of their original numbers , and the Costa Rican spinner dolphin ( a subspecies ) numbered only 9000 . |
| 23 | Since the 1987 general election the ranks of Conservative MPs have been reduced to a very small number . |