Example sentences of "can [adv] be reduce to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The balance-of-payments problem plainly can not be reduced to one of ‘ how to pay for essential imports ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Unlike their wimpish , ambitious colleagues in the Lower House , they can not be reduced to tears or submission by bullying whips . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hegel is adamant than human beings can not be reduced to the status of ‘ things ’ . |
| 17 | technology can not be reduced to machines . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To say that these factors of context , conjuncture and wider conditionality are ‘ extra-discursive ’ does not mean that discourses do not enter into their determination , only that they involve processes which can not be reduced to this effect . |
| 22 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 23 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 24 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 25 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 26 | Health policy can not be reduced to a purely rational technical process even if the means were available . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The base cost of the qualifying investment can not be reduced to less than zero by the rolled-over chargeable gain . |
| 29 | Conventional economic approaches to consumption tend towards a macro-scale of analysis whose assumptions about the nature of society , demand , and the actual relationship between goods and people can generally be reduced to certain highly simplistic and dubious notions , with the social demand for goods being replaced by the quite insufficient symbolic equation with price . |
| 30 | The coefficients can always be reduced to + 1 or -1 by appropriate choices of the length and time units . |