Example sentences of "[adv] restricted to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The extension to Poland of some debt reduction arrangements , hitherto restricted to specific categories of developing countries under the " Brady plan " , was supported explicitly by Eugenio Lari , a senior World Bank official dealing with Eastern Europe , at a seminar on Jan. 23 . ) |
| 2 | The size and consequent high cost of the book made Jonson 's audience necessarily restricted to certain classes of readers . |
| 3 | Gun-mikes are generally restricted to outdoor use ; indoors , sound reflections off walls defeat the directional characteristics to a large extent . |
| 4 | Polythene , the grade sold for ponds , is thicker than normal and several layers are usually used , but it 's a short-life material best restricted to temporary pools . |
| 5 | Green 's text in these and in his series of black and white pictures of the area was usually restricted to straightforward descriptions of the places portrayed or of the directions to reach them . |
| 6 | This is usually restricted to obvious cases of man-machine interaction such as the design of displays , controls and work-spaces . |
| 7 | The choice of book is usually restricted to well-known writers from well-known publishers , reviewed by well-known names . |
| 8 | For the most part their political impact was still restricted to illegal resistance . |
| 9 | In theory , all Japanese drift-netters are still restricted to 12-km nets , with a mesh size of 150 mm ( 6 inches ) , but in practice this regulation has been completely ignored , and the high seas drift-net fleets operate with nets of up to 50 or 60 km ( about 31 or 40 miles ) , and with a range of mesh sizes , as small as 80 mm ( 3.2 inches ) . |
| 10 | In practice the problem does not seem to have arisen so far , and s 13(1) is still restricted to secondary contracts . |
| 11 | Recruitment was also restricted to certain castes . |
| 12 | Access to the system is now restricted to authorized staff by the use of security passwords . |
| 13 | They were now restricted to tropical rain forests where most of their food plants grew in the upper canopy . |
| 14 | In our society , such ritual celebrations of changes of status through ageing are now restricted to religious occasions like baptism , confirmation and burial , though ‘ coming-of-age ’ parties amount to the same thing . |
| 15 | Another example of a dispersal anachronism is the extraordinary palm , Lodoicea maldivica , now restricted to small areas of the Seychelles . |
| 16 | English Nature is launching a programme to reintroduce the dormouse , once common throughout the country , now restricted to isolated sites in the south and west . |
| 17 | He even gets to duke it out with the bad guy — hard to do when you 're a disembodied ghost , conventionally restricted to shifting ornaments and the like , but under pressure form Patrick 's agents , the filmmakers find a way . |
| 18 | According to analyses based on the 1983 Labour Force Survey , migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force was then restricted to non-manual workers ; though unemployment rates for manual workers were markedly higher in the North than the South , there was no net migration of manual workers to the South ( Hughes and McCormick , 1987a ) . |
| 19 | The geological record does not suggest extended migration of dicynodonts or other Late Permian therapsids ; sites of dicynodont remains within Gondwana are primarily restricted to southern Africa . |
| 20 | The activities of the NL were primarily restricted to private meetings in 1938 , although it was connected with the Militant Christian Patriots at the end of the Munich Crisis when it urged Chamberlain not to get Britain involved in Jewish designs for a world war . |
| 21 | Paradoxically , the availability of the Invalid Care Allowance ( until recently restricted to single carers ) may sharpen the dilemma , for if some alternative financial support is available ( albeit not generous ) giving up work becomes a real possibility . |
| 22 | Gene transduction with these agents is essentially restricted to dividing cells , but although this could limit applications for other genetic disorders , it should not restrict gene therapy for cancer , where the target population of malignant cells is expanding . |