Example sentences of "limited to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim for damages for loss of expectation of life is limited to a moderate conventional sum ; by 1985 it had reached £1,750 ( Kralj v McGrath [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 54 ) . |
| 2 | So far , the card capacity has been largely limited to a mere 64 kilobytes and supply to third parties is controlled by Sharp which price them at up to £50 each , limiting the potential margin for would-be card publishers . |
| 3 | was indeed limited to a broad zone between Yorkshire and Dorset , and was primarily concerned with the removal of the traditional open or common fields and their replacement by the enclosed fields which cover almost the entire area today . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale one finds the hard pressed teacher or headmaster , besieged by parents , yet limited to a certain class size by government regulation ( or even by the number of spaces in his register page ) . |
| 5 | When you consider this organisation , bear in mind Poe 's description of the short story as ‘ a narrative that can be read at one sitting of from half an hour to two hours , that is limited to a certain unique and single effect to which every detail is subordinate . ’ |
| 6 | The clinical effects are slight , and in the resting cat are limited to a chronic mild cough ; following exercise or handling , there may be coughing and sneezing with slight dyspnoea and production of mucoid sputum . |
| 7 | While this work is proceeding , and while the first wave of self-governing trusts and GP budgets are established , competition will be limited to a narrow band of services , such as waiting list surgery . |
| 8 | The friends of the Queen belong to a small coterie of aristocrats , the children are educated exclusively ( one of the reasons Gordonstoun seemed a good bet was because , unlike metropolitan Eton , it was miles away in rural Scotland ) , and all are limited to a narrow circle of suitable acquaintances . |
| 9 | The traditional Diamond fighter kite as flown all over Eastern nations is remarkably controllable even on a single line , though its flight path is limited to a narrow sector of the downwind area . |
| 10 | Anderson 's proposal is for the tax subsidy to be limited to a five-year duration . |
| 11 | any of their rights to participate in a surplus in a winding up are limited to a specific amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits and such limitation had a commercial effect in practice at the time the shares were issued or , if later , at the time the limitation was introduced . |
| 12 | Advertising is limited to a new issue by an investment trust , and to investment trust saving schemes . |
| 13 | But it was unfortunate that the provisions on capital allowances , introduced last autumn , had not been extended : ‘ We recommended the reintroduction of 100 per cent capital allowances on plant and machinery , limited to a first portion of £50,000 , to benefit smaller businesses in particular . |
| 14 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 15 | First , instead of a figure based on shares , the members ' liability would be limited to a fixed sum expressed in the memorandum of association on registration of the company . |
| 16 | My own opinion is that derecognition is a reasonable treatment if the downside is limited to a fixed monetary amount or actuarial analysis shows that the expected outcome would result in no significant upside compared to the sale price . |
| 17 | Limited liability means that the financial liability of each person responsible as a member of the business is fixed from the outset and limited to a fixed amount . |
| 18 | Specific ideas on which it sought views were that preparatory advice given before the granting of a legal aid order should be claimed and paid for under that order and not the green form scheme , and that welfare benefit entitlement work should either be limited to a fixed fee or excluded altogether . |
| 19 | But for most of the polytechnics the formality of instruction is limited to a small percentage of course marks awarded as part of the assessment of projects . |
| 20 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 21 | Small companies still tend to be inhibited by the cost of using such services and within larger firms the knowledge of their benefits still seems to be limited to a small number of individuals and not widely recognised within the company as a resource . |
| 22 | This fairly low level of detection suggests that either K + channels were present at low density in the plasma membrane , or that K + channels were limited to a small subpopulation of cells withint the HGT-1 cell line . |
| 23 | True , my eyes did the selecting that guided their evolution , but at every stage I was limited to a small clutch of progeny offered up by random mutation , and my selection " strategy " , such as it was , was opportunistic , capricious and short-term . |
| 24 | The design and development of many of these products was undertaken by large groups of workers and not limited to a small technocratic elite . |
| 25 | well you had the advantage of inside information , I 'm talking about the ordinary punter , if you forgive the expression , the ordinary customer you realize do n't you that there 's no clue in that sentence that management charges is limited to a small element of the six pounds thirty five |
| 26 | Revenue from VAT , limited to a 1 per cent rate of VAT on a common base , was also transferred to the EC . |
| 27 | Wherever possible he uses machinery to help speed up the process but this is limited to a band-saw , a lathe and a thick strip of metal known as a bending iron . |
| 28 | The plaintiff was in any case prevented from bringing an action by the statutory provision , which is not limited to a bare right of passage and is not lost by the taking of a photograph . |
| 29 | In the companies and enterprises fortunate enough to possess one , access to these necessary but — so it seems — fundamentally evil items is limited to a favoured and closely monitored few . |
| 30 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |