Example sentences of "[vb mod] not be reduce [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This complexity must not be reduced to simple hypocrisy , although there is of course some of that . |
| 2 | His sentence should not be reduced on appeal . |
| 3 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 4 | In the modern world , they were held to have become so totally interchangeable that there was no value which could not be reduced to this cycle of exchange . |
| 5 | The social reality , for me , resided in the complex of interpretations , which could not be reduced to any one of the interpretations which composed it . |
| 6 | The Formalist strategy for dealing with the problem of definition not only had the virtue of ensuring that literature could not be reduced to anything else , but proved also to be immensely productive in the elaboration of every aspect of Formalist theory . |
| 7 | Defence Minister Moshe Arens had successfully argued that defence spending could not be reduced in the light of the ongoing Gulf crisis . |
| 8 | She would not be reduced to skulking in the back room of her own shop . |
| 9 | Due to the problems with implementing the peace process , it was reported on May 22 that the complement of 290 military personnel who formed part of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) mission would not be reduced in June but would continue their duties until September . |
| 10 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 11 | Your sum insured will not be reduced following payment of a claim provided that the freezer is in effective working order . |
| 12 | Will he , if it remains voluntary , reassure farmers who would like to take up the scheme that the payments will not be reduced during the period for which they take it up — that is , for five or even 10 years ? |
| 13 | But , in either case , the investment advantages will not be reduced in any way . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | The balance-of-payments problem plainly can not be reduced to one of ‘ how to pay for essential imports ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy . |
| 20 | Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition . |
| 21 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 22 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 23 | We must keep constantly in mind the idea that since these two aspects of the body are on different and incommunicable levels of being , they can not be reduced to one another . |
| 24 | Task analysis has not and can not be reduced to a set of standardised procedures which the aspiring analyst could acquire in a formal training course . |
| 25 | He has pointed out that both our own experience and Marx 's writings suggest that changes result from a disparate collection of circumstances which can not be reduced to a single contradiction , but are jointly sufficient for a situation to become volatile . |
| 26 | Unlike their wimpish , ambitious colleagues in the Lower House , they can not be reduced to tears or submission by bullying whips . |
| 27 | As a result , each artist was chosen for at least four reasons , but with a common denominator : we decided to present individuals operating from an independent position , whose work has a certain degree of complexity and can not be reduced to one or two key ideas . |
| 28 | Hegel is adamant than human beings can not be reduced to the status of ‘ things ’ . |
| 29 | technology can not be reduced to machines . |
| 30 | Power is not unitary , it does not reside in the stats , it can not be reduced to class relations ; it is not something to hold or use . |