Example sentences of "[conj] a limited [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a limited amount of money is available for allocation amongst competing demands , attention is bound to be focused on the procedures by which recipients are selected and others excluded . |
| 2 | Some systems have employed letter level and word level information , in the form of n-grams or a limited word look-up . |
| 3 | Some systems have employed letter level and word level information , in the form of n-grams or a limited word look-up . |
| 4 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |
| 5 | For instance , government may be seen as a set of institutions , whether this be all public sector institutions , or a limited set of them , such as Cabinet , Parliament or Congress and the Civil Service . |
| 6 | His outline programme included a 100-day package to curb inflation , a declared intention to make the forint into a convertible currency ( but without a specified target date ) , and a commitment to land reforms , as demanded by the Smallholders who had campaigned on the single issue of returning farmland to its pre-1947 owners ; agriculture was to become primarily based on private ownership , with encouragement for family farms and voluntary co-operatives , although a limited number of state farms would also remain in existence . |
| 7 | They recommended that a limited member of such posts should be available subject to certain safeguards ( Widdicombe 1986 : 154 ) . |
| 8 | It had been expected that a limited corp of staff would remain as a support unit after the last aircraft departs in January . |
| 9 | The principal disadvantage is that a limited company invariably incurs some additional costs . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is important as a matter of law and could be important as a matter of economics , that a limited company can distinguish between the original capital invested and the rest . |
| 11 | How was it that a limited company made a contract otherwise than in the course of its business ? |
| 12 | Such a theme was , and still is , at the centre of debate throughout all Western societies , but what was really surprising for the Japanese to read was the clear attribution , from a Westerner , that a limited state role was one of the most important reasons why Japanese was destined to be the ‘ Number One ’ . |
| 13 | As experience in the US or UK during the 1980s shows , a small state is not necessarily a weak state despite the rhetoric of claims that a limited state sector restores individual freedom and personal initiative . |
| 14 | Some hold a number of discrete transforms in order that a limited number Of views can be automatically described and displayed . |
| 15 | Modern interpretation of elite theories seek to show either that key policy offices are held by people from a narrow spectrum of social origins , or that a limited number of people , characterized by close links with one another , dominate decision-making roles . |
| 16 | On April 16 , US officials confirmed that a limited number of US troops had helped distribute relief supplies to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq as part of " Operation Provide Relief " . |
| 17 | Downing Street sources made little attempt to choke off intense speculation among MPs that a limited Cabinet shake-up is still on the cards . |
| 18 | The former are characteristic of amorphous polymers , and illustrate that a limited amount of short range order exists in most polymeric solids . |
| 19 | ‘ The spirit and ideas of the liberals were republican although in order not to affront openly the opinions of the masses , they pretended no other aim than a limited monarchy , basing their projects on laws and events in the history of Spain adapted to their purposes . ’ |
| 20 | The very circumstance , however , which made the public schools a perfect vehicle for propaganda — their isolation , through the boarding system , from the outside world and the idiosyncratic influence of families — ensured that Dr Arnold , in his crusade for the personal salvation of his charges , could enjoy no more than a limited success . |
| 21 | While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application . |
| 22 | It will suffice to observe that those on higher assessments were mostly merchants , and the poorer ones manual workers , and to conclude that a tiny farming community was incapable of generating more than a limited demand for their services . |
| 23 | The 1970 Act required the EPA to prescribe NAAQSs which were not to be exceeded in any region more than one day per year , or during more than a limited period within that day ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 24 | They are not capable of enjoying more than a limited amount of leisure . |
| 25 | War between East and West would not only be a contest between states and power blocs , but ways of life ( ‘ classes ’ ) : more likely to be ‘ a struggle for the very existence of the two opposing world-wide systems ’ than a limited engagement . |
| 26 | So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . " |
| 27 | One has only to envisage circumstances in which all those upon whose territory strategic arms are stationed are required to come to the negotiating table to consider such a proposition to realise how much more difficult it would be if all , rather than a limited number , were participating . |
| 28 | Budget-holding GPs with budgets to purchase drugs , outpatient treatment and tests and a limited range of inpatient services will be working with an ‘ internal market ’ which is mainly Type I. There are some differences from the situation faced by DHAs in that such GP practices will be able to choose the population that they serve , but will not be responsible for the full range of services . |
| 29 | Extrapolation from these studies to the past is difficult , for only superambient [ CO 2 ] and a limited range of processes and temporal scales were considered . |
| 30 | The means by which these identities are formed are , according to Suttles , the withdrawal of ethnic minorities to small territories and a limited range of personal associations . |