Example sentences of "limiting [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , having regard to maintaining the doctor 's primary duty , a Family Practitioners ' Committee is entitled to impose conditions limiting the number of visits per 1,000 patients which might be made by the deputising service , so as to prevent excessive use being made of a deputising service . |
| 2 | Southern California is moving towards replacing petrol with methanol , and — an important first — limiting the number of cars a family may own ; even insisting on radial tyres because they produce less dust . |
| 3 | Reform groups have called for drastic measures , perhaps following California 's lead in limiting the number of terms a politician can serve in office . |
| 4 | Organising a fair distribution of tickets by perhaps initially limiting the number allocated to each family or , alternatively , putting on an extra performance will go a long way to solving the problem . |
| 5 | In December 1785 Joseph 11 issued an imperial decree limiting the number of Viennese lodges to three . |
| 6 | The proposed conditions include limiting the number of aerotows — launches using a powered tug aircraft — to 50 a day on Sundays and 60 a day on other days , up to a maximum of 2,000 a year . |
| 7 | Further means of limiting the number of pensioners were worked out by a Cabinet committee . |
| 8 | Also , in 1971–2 , US support for détente increased until , at Moscow , in May 1972 , Nixon and Brezhnev finally met and signed a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT ) limiting the number of inter-continental range missiles on each side . |
| 9 | Sea waybills have reduced some of the above uncertainties by limiting the number of qualified issuers , minimizing the possibilities of fraud and arriving at the port of destination prior to arrival of the goods . |
| 10 | This raises the possibility that in some instances the number of authors may be negotiable : by limiting the number of cited authors to six , last authors receive acknowledgment in citation listings . |
| 11 | It is a well-established convention that a minister should be an MP or a peer ; the Ministers of the Crown Act , 1964 ( in limiting the number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries that can sit in the Commons ) forces the Prime Minister to select a nucleus of ministers from the Lords ; leading figures in the majority party practically demand a Cabinet place — and a ministry of their choice ; new young members need to be nurtured ; and even leaders of factions within the party might have to be given office if only in the hope of softening their opposition to the broad drift of government policy . |
| 12 | Iran had boycotted the pilgrimage for the third consecutive year in protest both over a quota system limiting the number of pilgrims ( to an estimated 1,500,000 ) and over the Saudi ban on political protests during the pilgrimage . |
| 13 | The fact that evidence and documents relating to the case had either disappeared or been tampered with and that witnesses had been threatened led members of a US Congressional investigative task force to conclude that the military high command had been controlling the investigation and limiting the number and rank of the officers to be held responsible for the crime . |
| 14 | The first non-binding agreement limiting the number of land and air forces in Europe was finalized by 29 CSCE member countries on July 6 in Vienna and signed on July 10 at their summit meeting in Helsinki [ see p. 39030 ; for other recent force reductions in Europe see pp. 38365 ; 38745 ; 38793 ] . |
| 15 | Kuwaiti electoral law restricted the franchise to men aged 21 or over whose families had been in the Emirate since before 1921 , limiting the number of voters to 81,400 of the country 's 606,000 nationals . |
| 16 | In contrast , Copenhagen states : ‘ Governments should consider limiting eligibility for IVF to women of 40 years of age or under ’ ; ‘ Governments should consider limiting the number of IVF treatment cycles per woman ’ ; and ‘ All clinics should … 0 limit the number of eggs or embryos transferred during an IVF treatment cycle to no more than three ’ . |
| 17 | A year after a referendum failed to endorse proposed sweeping restrictions on hunting [ see ED no. 35/36 ] , the Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill cutting the hunting season by three months , restricting hunters to designated reserves and limiting the number of species which can be killed . |
| 18 | The exception is Singapore , where the catalysts ' effect will be reinforced by existing restrictions on traffic density , principally achieved through limiting the number of new car registrations . |
| 19 | In in fact one of my one of the pupils I am proposing to work with he 's one of her people who have contacted her and she 's she 's quite deliberately limiting the number of her days in the week she teaches to two . |
| 20 | The authority wants to revamp the site to meet new social services guidelines limiting the number of people in each bungalow from eight to six . |
| 21 | and that , that would be because your , your twenty million pounds in it has really got no erm , had got no independent justification on arbitrary limiting a number of people able to compete , but what , what if you 're able to satisfy everybody that you had to have some pay out capital , twenty million is ridiculous |