Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a limited [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea .
2 Occasionally Harvard dealers would have colleagues shout out that only a limited line of stock was left .
3 Michael Meacher and Frank Field have stressed that only a limited circle of people were actively involved in formulating the industrial policy proposals , and that beyond this circle , understanding of the proposals was rather minimal .
4 Further validation is needed , says the NII , before it will accept CEGB assurances that only a limited number of rods will experience significant ballooning .
5 Though in this form the list looks a long one , it must be remembered that only a limited number of schools have introduced more than a few changes .
6 Davis and Moore assume that only a limited number of individuals have the talent to acquire the skills necessary for the functionally most important positions .
7 The hon. Member for Ogmore said that the opinion polls demonstrated that only a limited number of people would be interested in total deregulation .
8 This ‘ molecular bridging ’ approach was successful ( but inefficient ) when viral particles were coupled to human MHC class I and class II antigens 27 , but not to the human transferrin receptor 28 , and suggests that only a limited number of cell surface antigens can function as surrogate receptors for MoMLV particles .
9 Norway was more cautious , with several influential politicians fearing that even a limited form of cooperation might erode national sovereignty .
10 This type of award is , however , highly competitive and only a limited number of candidates will be successful .
11 There are only a limited number of possibilities for public launches of campaigns and campaign materials , and only a limited number of points in the year at which materials can be promoted centrally .
12 Moreover , if only a limited number of more senior places are available , very able corporals and subalterns will get tired of waiting for promotion to sergeant and captain respectively , and will be inclined to leave at that stage .
13 Even if only a limited number of the more extreme pipe dreams become part of everyday life , the developments are likely to have far reaching effects , especially in agriculture .
14 He suggests that there is a strong argument for decentralization to local government ( and potentially a limited hierarchy with some overlapping powers ) so long as information is available which makes it possible for voters to judge between them and thus to influence the direction of their own local government through elections .
15 Ratio and proportion are difficult concepts and therefore a limited number of questions was used , but it is not suggested that these represent the only possible ones for lower attainers .
16 Debbie uses three ideas common to the science students : one , that science degrees are more useful in enabling students to gain jobs ; two , that a degree is a process of ‘ gaining knowledge ’ which can be applied ; three , that the knowledge gained in a degree such as history can be applied only in limited ways and therefore a limited number of jobs is open to the history graduate .
17 To yank someone entirely out of their time and smack them around for not being of our time is perhaps a salutary but only a limited exercise .
18 First-hand experience is invaluable but only a limited amount of it can be arranged and you certainly ca n't have large numbers of trainees sitting at the back of the same class .
19 These patterns varied from language to language , but only a limited number of such patterns seemed to occur , so that the same pattern of kinship terminology was found among totally unrelated peoples speaking totally unrelated languages .
20 I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening .
21 Even within these admirable phrases one can detect the difficulties of achieving a common policy : what those principles could produce , if put into practice , would not be free trade , but only a limited liberalisation that would seek a balance between EEC principles and the protection of national agricultural interests .
22 But since only a limited amount could be achieved within the overloaded RHA capital programme , it was decided to select two for a closure programme within the strategic planning period ( 1983 to 1993 ) .
23 Sachs argued that since only a limited amount of information can be stored verbatim in memory , normally only the most recently heard sentence is remembered word for word .
24 Since only a limited number of stated capacities grant possessory rights and enable liability those capacities must be easily ascertainable .
25 Since only a limited number of booklets had been issued to each school , it seemed possible that many teachers might well have seen and used it , a section at a time , in the form of photocopied sheets .
26 Since only a limited number of hypotheses could be tested prospectively , other potential risk factors , such as a previous history of slow ulcer healing , were tested exploratorily either because it was not felt necessary to confirm their reported effect on healing or because they were considered to be less important to ulcer healing .
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