Example sentences of "only [prep] a limited " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |
| 2 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 3 | If a group wittingly shares an attitude over a relevant issue but does so only for a limited period of time before falling into disarray , it would be difficult to refer to the group as an elite in any meaningful sense since the outcomes would be insignificant . |
| 4 | The UK had maintained that rates should be left for the market to decide , and had demanded the indefinite maintenance of discretionary zero rating for sensitive items ( the Commission 's position being that zero rating would be tolerated only for a limited period ) . |
| 5 | The battle of the Catalaunian Plains was proof that the imperial policy could work , if only for a limited period of time . |
| 6 | They have obvious advantages over ordinary questionnaires and ‘ checklists ’ : with these one can in practice ask only about a limited number of activities which must be precisely specified in advance . |
| 7 | First , a survey can ask only about a limited range of matters . |
| 8 | This latter idea could lay claim to a basis in ideas of collegiality — but only of a limited nature . |
| 9 | If it is alleged that the tribunal has reached a wrong decision then there can be a question of law but only of a limited character . |
| 10 | It has the advantage that the user is given a feeling of security by being concerned only with a limited range of immediate decisions . |
| 11 | A number of statutes contain provisions allowing review only within a limited period , commonly being six weeks . |
| 12 | Thus , one could take a random sample of the battalions first and then on through the companies and platoons until the actual individual soldiers were sampled only from a limited number of platoons instead of from the whole brigade . |
| 13 | Presumably this could be contemplated only in a limited number of constituencies , since anything more ambitious would knock the stuffing out of local activists in one party or the other . |
| 14 | But all the time — from the moment I began to speak , in fact — I knew this was partly a lie : I enjoyed the intrigue of politics , the excitement , the feeling , if only in a limited way , of power . |
| 15 | On the other , it may bring to light significant features of style which would otherwise have been overlooked , and so lead to further insights ; but only in a limited sense does it provide an objective measurement of style . |
| 16 | This implies that , if one is interested only in a limited number of eigenvalues , the power method is the obvious choice . |
| 17 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ In order to prevent literary contracts being held up , I also suggest that a general power of attorney be given to me again only in a limited area and only to be used if Elinor be indisposed . ’ |
| 19 | Data can be passed between these programs but only in a limited way through a copy buffer . |
| 20 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 21 | Assimilation of voice is also found , but again only in a limited way . |
| 22 | This happens only over a limited Reynolds number range . |
| 23 | Nor does the estate come to an end with the tenant 's death : it passes to his heirs , but only to a limited class of heirs , ‘ the heirs of his body ’ , that is , his descendants . |
| 24 | Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’ |
| 25 | Finally , Rawls is only to a limited extent concerned with correcting inequalities in the ability to promote the good which are due to one 's natural endowments ( the difference principle is about social , not natural , primary goods ) . |
| 26 | They lessen the working value of the dog only to a limited degree , but they can obscure and distort the typical image of the breed . |
| 27 | Perhaps one of the most valuable assets of TL is restoring some tangible contact with the environment , although only to a limited extent . |
| 28 | BL have used carousels , but only to a limited degree and , it would appear , only where they were particularly vital to insulate the biggest machines from human variability . |
| 29 | Consequently , the defence account of mistake is of general applicability whereas the definitional account can apply only to a limited range of cases . |
| 30 | In the past the courts have been willing to interfere only to a limited extent in the use of prerogative power . |