Example sentences of "[prep] limiting [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 2 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 3 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it is obvious that by limiting himself to his own observations in a remote valley , he would soon exhaust his material : he therefore drew on Dorothy 's Journals and upon other people 's experiences , for example in Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper ( observed by Wilkinson who ‘ Passed a female who was reaping alone ’ ) , and The Kitten and Falling Leaves ( rough draft by Coleridge printed in Notebooks , vol. i , 1813 ) . |
| 5 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |