Example sentences of "[be] reduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're reduced to five thousand with short commons and sickness , and the extra irony is that a cargo ship diverted from Chios got in just before the port closed . |
| 2 | Is this what we 're reduced to ? |
| 3 | I am reduced to sitting staring out of the window with nothing much to look at but a young man , presumably a salesman or political canvasser , patiently going from door to door down the street . |
| 4 | Toton was a pivotal Speedlink yard in 1980 but its status had been reduced to that of staging and storage sidings , plus a small amount of household coal shunting , by the end of the decade . |
| 5 | Not only has the essential large vacuum cell been reduced to a small glass cell , but Wieman has also been able to replace gas lasers with solid state devices . |
| 6 | Now the Dutchman 's goal has been reduced to two clear rounds in this evening 's Modern Alarms Cup and victory in the Grand Prix . |
| 7 | Today people are wondering why a country which , according to Mr Lawson not long ago , was experiencing an ‘ economic miracle ’ , has been reduced to such public squalor — dirty , violent , congested and broken down , prone even to third-world disasters ? |
| 8 | After the Civil War Bolshevik control expanded easily from its bastion which had been reduced to the size of medieval Muscovy . |
| 9 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 10 | There was talk before the start of the competition having become more intense ; of the gap between McLaren and the rest having been reduced to the point where we might have a race on our hands . |
| 11 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 12 | Seats in the new Olympic Gallery , which cost £40 each for last month 's game against Italy , have now been reduced to £20 . |
| 13 | Seats in the new Olympic Gallery , which cost £40 each for last month 's game against Italy , have now been reduced to £20 . |
| 14 | Eastern spinner dolphins had been reduced to about 20 per cent of their original numbers , and the Costa Rican spinner dolphin ( a subspecies ) numbered only 9000 . |
| 15 | And the mighty British Medical Association ( BMA ) , whose harrumphing once looked like destroying the programme , has been reduced to squabbling about doctors ' terms of employment . |
| 16 | The powerful multiplicity of sexuality has for too long been reduced to the level of the coarse car sticker , the symbol of two feet pointing upwards and two feet pointing downwards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is also a pleasure for a nation of country lovers to escape from what is in danger of becoming a land of theme parks and golf courses , to a place in which the earth is actually used for growing things and where the workers have n't been reduced to the statutory rustic who sits in the corner of the saloon bar entertaining the merchant bankers . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , following the exit from commercial property , which realised £100m , borrowings have been reduced to £168m , leaving gearing at 50 p.c . |
| 20 | Hoppy 's platoon consisted entirely of ex-NCOs , who had been reduced to the ranks for various offences and were reputed to be extremely difficult . |
| 21 | Joe Boyd 's career began in Princeton , New Jersey , when , as an 18-year-old , he discovered that Lonnie Johnson , the legendary blues guitarist , had been reduced to washing dishes in a Philadelphia hotel kitchen . |
| 22 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | The legal authority of the Lander has been reduced to legal administrative authority by the federal administration . |
| 25 | The many occasions over the years when this summit has been short of water were thus inevitable unless the level of leakage could have been reduced to an absolute minimum . |
| 26 | It is therefore all too easy to convert to arable farming and the prairie in particular has been reduced to fragments between the expanding farms . |
| 27 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 28 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In his report Layfield concluded that there was only a one in forty chance that a coal station would be cheaper than Sizewell B. By the time that the then Energy Minister , Peter Walker , gave his seal of approval to the project in 1987 the odds had been reduced to one in seven . |