Example sentences of "limited to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Anderson 's proposal is for the tax subsidy to be limited to a five-year duration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Advertising is limited to a new issue by an investment trust , and to investment trust saving schemes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 22 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 23 | The only difference between this demo and the full commercial version is that you are limited to a single theatre of operations . |
| 24 | However , the limitations of these data must be borne in mind , especially the fact that they are limited to a single point in time . |
| 25 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 26 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 27 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 28 | We know nothing of his campaign , except that it was limited to a single season and that the Silures did not appear again as a fighting force . |
| 29 | So if a person had a sore throat and it burned , this burning would be a particular symptom because it was limited to a single focus of his illness . |
| 30 | ‘ Even our most loyal customers will be limited to a single car each . ’ |