Example sentences of "be limited to [verb] " in BNC.

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1 MAS 's involvement in investigations tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and studying with the purchaser the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on the heads of agreement and the client 's warranty and indemnity requirements .
2 As explained at our meeting , MAS 's involvement in due diligence tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and reviewing with yourselves the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on price and your warranty and indemnity requirements .
3 This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope .
4 Without this , human language would be limited to mentioning phrases , in principle indefinitely many , and in principle without restriction on their length , but still merely phrases , not construed into a whole capable of constituting a statement ( or a question or a command ) .
5 Hun Sen said that dismantling his government and disarming the SOC armed forces would be unacceptable , and that the UN role should be limited to overseeing elections , with UN troops being only lightly armed for self-defence .
6 Urban transport would be reduced by 40 per cent and taxi services would be limited to taking people to hospital or to funerals .
7 In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’
8 Even those who thought military sanctions might be necessary believed that this would be limited to using the Royal Navy to close the Suez Canal to the Italians .
9 the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources .
10 This was to be raised by various subscribers who would be limited to buying twenty shares each .
11 However , you would not be limited to advising on existing law .
12 Its task would be limited to ensuring free and fair multiracial elections to a constitution-making body ( a constituent assembly ) .
13 Save in an exceptional case , our concern , i.e. , the concern of these courts , should be limited to giving the child the maximum possible protection until the courts of the other country — Australia in this case — can resume their normal role in relation to the child .
14 If a contract is for a fixed price , the engineer 's capacity for controlling costs may be limited to minimizing the number and size of variations .
15 Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press .
16 With very young children , their contributions may be limited to saying in general what they think they would like and in colouring the cards .
17 The implication would seem to be that some lives could be ‘ so demonstrably awful ’ that the doctor 's legal duty would be limited to making the child comfortable and allowing it to die .
18 Where data do exist on support between kin across households , this tends in effect to be limited to documenting the networks through which support flowed and the kind of support which was given , and can give very little direct evidence about the underlying structure of social relations which supported these exchanges .
19 His own duties appeared to be limited to joining his patrons in a drink whenever he was thirsty , which seemed to be often .
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