Example sentences of "can [adv] be reduced 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The coefficients can always be reduced to + 1 or -1 by appropriate choices of the length and time units . |
| 4 | And , politics well aside , what unites them is precisely their purity , the fact that they can both be reduced to a matter of pure taste . |
| 5 | Accompaniment can sometimes be reduced to a very simple harmonic background with very little movement . |
| 6 | 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations . |
| 7 | People reveal themselves in their actions , but they can never be reduced to them . |
| 8 | In a similar way , the argument goes , God reveals Himself in particular events ( that may themselves be the actions of His agents , like Jesus of Nazareth or Mohammed ) but can never be reduced to them . |
| 9 | With the growth of international lending in both domestic and foreign currencies most banks have increased their staff numbers and resources devoted to the assessment of country risk , although it has to be recognised that such a subject can never be reduced to an exact science . |
| 10 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |