Example sentences of "[verb] only partial " in BNC.

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1 To obtain such information is costly and there are people or groups with an incentive to provide only partial or distorted information .
2 Findings gleaned from these research literatures provide only partial insights into the issues confronting mothers caring in poverty .
3 It is a direct intuition of God , in effect a hotline that bypasses the ambiguous world of the senses that might indeed provide only partial or uncertain evidence of the Deity .
4 Several analysts in recent years , most notably Schorske , Bell , Marshall Berman , and T. J. Clark , have attempted to tackle this issue , though they have , I think , enjoyed only partial success .
5 models are : ( a ) they take time to be developed , and are thus less useful for producing quick answers , ( b ) they can represent an over-simplified picture of a particular set of conditions , and therefore may suggest only partial solutions , and ( c ) they may be resisted by line managers on the grounds that such models are too theoretical to be put into practice .
6 One sign that the adminstration is beginning to think seriously about basic research is its decision last week to release only partial information on six interagency initiatives that , taken together , will cost $12.5 billion .
7 If Richmond bureau , which is seriously committed to the use of computers for the purpose , can extract only partial data from clients , bureaux that are less convinced of its value are likely to obtain a very sparse picture of their clients using this method .
8 Legislation in the nineteenth-century Russian Empire looks like a series of royal fiats , but the laws whch freed the serfs emerged from a process which the tsar barely understood and over which he had only partial control .
9 In brief , it seems that stresses are altered according to context : we need to be able to explain how and why this happens , but this is a difficult question and one for which we have only partial answers .
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