Example sentences of "been reduce to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here , too , that broader links were formed with other kinds of social deviance which had similarly been reduced to technical problems . |
| 2 | Despite the lack of recovery through rehabilitation the hospital population had been reduced to 189 patients in 1982 . |
| 3 | Since the Norwegian constitution did not allow the early dissolution of parliament , attempts to form a new government had quickly been reduced to two options , a Conservative or a Labour minority administration . |
| 4 | I remember that year : Elio Vittorini was living in a house which had been reduced to two walls . ) |
| 5 | The crew of the explosive blockship HMS Campbeltown had been reduced to 75 hands ; the four funnels she had carried as the USS Buchanan , old Buck , had been replaced by two raked-back stacks to resemble a German Möwe-class destroyer . |
| 6 | He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes . |
| 7 | Compulsory admission for treatment ( section 3 ) is possible , but the conditions are now more stringent than formerly and the periods of initial and subsequent detention have been reduced to six months , a further six months and then for one year at a time , and the patients ' rights of appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal have been strengthened . |
| 8 | So he 's been reduced to other expedients . ’ |
| 9 | In 1978 it was claimed that these devices could not produce electricity at a cheaper rate than 20 pence per kilowatt hour ( as opposed to the Central Electricity Generating Board 's 2.7 pence per kilowatt hour ) but this has now been reduced to 10 pence per kilowatt hour while Dr Salter maintains that the Duck could achieve 4 pence per kilowatt hour . |
| 10 | The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players . |
| 11 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 12 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 13 | Troop numbers had been reduced to 1986 levels , and there would be no recruitment in 1991 . |
| 14 | The reserve will be farmed in a way which benefits the bird , whose UK population has been reduced to 500 pairs , largely as a result of habitat destruction due to agricultural intensification . |
| 15 | This had been reduced to 24 hours from 48 based on the 1989 evaluations and seemed to be just about right . |
| 16 | Although this may seen like an idyllic setting , the fact that the panda 's natural habitat has been reduced to this area is enough cause for alarm . |
| 17 | The Exmoor National Park had 23,900 hectares of moorland in 1947 which , by 1976 , had been reduced to 19,021 hectares ( a 20% loss ) , 26 mainly by conversion to Pasture . |
| 18 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had been reduced to seven stone by his ill-health and was some twenty years their junior . |
| 21 | Rangers piled on the pressure in the last 15 minutes and an instinctive Mathers save kept out Mark Hateley but the big Rangers frontman had the final say after Dundee had been reduced to ten men . |
| 22 | Having been reduced to ten men after only 15 minutes , they continued to make chance after chance but went in at half time with only two goals of an advantage . |
| 23 | In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) . |