Example sentences of "[adv] a limited " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SEA is basically a limited set of changes to the Treaty of Rome which allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers in areas connected to establishing the Internal Market , and also has some rather vague references to EMU , Political Union and other policy areas such as the environment . |
| 2 | The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research . |
| 3 | It is only a limited number of pensioners who at present enjoy substantial occupational pensions . |
| 4 | The area manager is responsible for all aspects of the working railway in his patch , including operations , and his role in liaison with the sectors , which have only a limited presence away from headquarters , is crucial . |
| 5 | The court was considering only a limited application by the European Commission for the suspension of parts of the act considered to be most at odds with EC non-discrimination laws . |
| 6 | It is boring , often done in locations where it is difficult to avoid ‘ bosses ’ , it affords only a limited range of ‘ bluffs ’ or easing techniques , and is looked down upon by regular policemen and women , a view unintentionally reinforced by those sergeants who apologize to regulars when asking them at parade to do sanger duty . |
| 7 | Equally , Enoch Powell 's speeches in the 1960s which might have been designed to stir up racial animosity between the various Commonwealth communities , had only a limited impact , with Powell himself becoming politically marginalized . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The terms of reference were diametrically opposed ; in more sober moments , even North would agree that the meetings might represent ‘ only a limited , momentary , tactical coincidence of interests . ’ |
| 10 | A total of 34 farms had no assistance from wives whilst on two farms there was a daughter working on the farm in addition to the wife , though the latter now did only a limited amount of farm work . |
| 11 | It therefore had only a limited use in the oral short term therapy of urinary tract infections . |
| 12 | They have only a limited view of science , and would have some difficulty reading , say , a textbook of physics from only about 25 years ago . |
| 13 | If the fossil is constructed in a certain way , then there are only a limited number of ‘ jobs ’ that the structure could perform . |
| 14 | Under our agreement with Waterloo University , where the accessing software , PAT , was developed , we are able to distribute only a limited number of copies of the tape for research purposes and we have nearly reached our ceiling . |
| 15 | Deregulation has also extended to business organisation though , as yet , in only a limited way . |
| 16 | The relaxation of advertising regulations , initially in 1979–80 , and more fully in 1987 , seems to have had only a limited impact on the profession . |
| 17 | There is only a limited amount of change that can be achieved by direct transformation in the ‘ swords to ploughshares ’ manner . |
| 18 | As might be expected , only a limited amount of information about the practice of telephone-tapping is made available to the public . |
| 19 | There are , in fact only a limited number of sites in the world with sufficient tide range to make such schemes cost effective . |
| 20 | Realistically , however , only a limited number of employers are likely to agree to a potentially costly and open-ended liability of that sort . |
| 21 | The smoothing recipe described below generally gives satisfactory results and involves only a limited amount of computational effort . |
| 22 | We have only a limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many environmental monitoring results , let alone of predictions . |
| 23 | In fact the survey was only a limited success because rather few observers took part . |
| 24 | This type of award is , however , highly competitive and only a limited number of candidates will be successful . |
| 25 | The state library association backed clearinghouses and subject-oriented clearinghouses of the USA , because no staff salaries are required , will require only a limited amount of financial assistance . |
| 26 | They give high selectivity for one product , but so far only a limited range of reactions falls within their scope . |
| 27 | But the results are so late in arriving that they will have only a limited influence on national policies for coronary prevention . |
| 28 | Further validation is needed , says the NII , before it will accept CEGB assurances that only a limited number of rods will experience significant ballooning . |
| 29 | The Rev. Thomas Arnold , founder of the Oral School for the Deaf at Northampton in 1868 after trying out the system with only a limited success with a special class at the Yorkshire Institution where that great advocate of sign language , Charles Baker , was Principal , did probably more than any other person to establish the oral system in Britain with the fine academic record of his school . |
| 30 | 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 . |