Example sentences of "have been reduce to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a solvent called AB57 — which was originally developed for cleaning marble and is a mixture of sodium and ammonium bicarbonates suspended in a cellulose gel — the conservation team has drastically altered the previously perceived tonal representations and , as one expert put it , the fresco ‘ has been reduced to a smudged painting with Disney colour ’ . |
| 2 | Yet the passage quoted above implies a continuing belief in the meaningfulness of literature , and it would be fanciful to conclude from the new narrative 's questioning of realism that the novel has been reduced to a formalistic game , without reference to anything outside itself . |
| 3 | Add the sherry to the pan , and stir until it has been reduced to a glaze . |
| 4 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 5 | Here , according to Mr Kaplan , ‘ men have been isolated by poverty and ethnic rivalry , dooming them to hate ’ , and ‘ politics has been reduced to a level of near-anarchy . ’ |
| 6 | In modern times , this has culminated in the emergence of the ‘ Servile State ’ in which the state is viewed as a corporate productive enterprise , Parliament has been reduced to a market in which private interests clamour for awards , and civil law has been displaced by the administration of instrumental rules and orders . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
| 9 | In both all the sensuous elements of the previous years have been banished ; colour has been reduced to a severe combination of browns , dull greens and greys . |
| 10 | But the outright victory Garvey required to keep their championship flame alive eluded them , and the league battle has been reduced to a two-horse race . |
| 11 | A familiar landmark in Hartlepool has been reduced to a pile of rubble by bulldozers . |
| 12 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 13 | But perhaps Joan 's greatest success came with a young man in the neuro-psychiatric unit who had been reduced to a pitiful existence as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident . |
| 14 | The union 's research officer and main advocate , David Feickert , bitterly attacked the way that energy policy had been reduced to a question of how to beat the miners . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the mighty and majestic animal had been reduced to a pawn in the squalid affairs of men . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now her plan to bluff her way through had been reduced to a pitiful shambles . |
| 18 | The majority of the population had been reduced to a state of extreme poverty , an estimated 150,000 people had lost their jobs , and famine was reported in the north-west region . |
| 19 | Her favourite lamp , a white Art Deco figure of a woman , had been reduced to a neat heap of pottery shards . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 22 | Some of these recipes contain , fat , sugar or flour — often forbidden in other diets — but they have been reduced to a minimum to provide tasty food that 's also low in calories . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is only because the duties of citizenship have been reduced to a minimum in those societies , with even voting being voluntary in most of them , that they survive as unitary states at all . |
| 24 | Since the 1987 general election the ranks of Conservative MPs have been reduced to a very small number . |
| 25 | I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments , which do n't really say much . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |