Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a limited [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The legal profession offers only a limited range of negative criteria , although there exist many eulogies of good practice from which rules of conduct could be extrapolated by a neophyte practitioner ( e.g. Malcolm 1966 ; Megarry 1962 ) .
2 The smoothing recipe described below generally gives satisfactory results and involves only a limited amount of computational effort .
3 ‘ Thus , although Dillons discounts only a limited range of titles , the knock-on effect of its advertising campaign and aggressive marketing is that it brings people into its shops , and generates the belief that all books are cheaper in Dillons , not just discounted titles .
4 As the HLA-A2.1 molecules on T2 cells appear to carry only a limited variety of peptides derived from signal sequences , our data suggest that the anti-HLA-A2.1 CTL clone recognizes such a signal sequence-derived peptide .
5 In longer pieces composers often use varied keys , so as to have a more chromatic language at their disposal and to avoid the stagnation of using only a limited selection of notes .
6 However , it has been my experience that composition students do not sufficiently exploit their harmonic knowledge , often using only a limited vocabulary .
7 Nevertheless , the party made only a limited concession ; Home Rule 's suspension was real , and every attempt to implement it in wartime provoked sufficient Unionist outrage to stop it .
8 Until late in the eighteenth century Methodism made only a limited advance .
9 The listener was given only a limited picture of life outside the capital and one which was seen through urban eyes .
10 ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’
11 But so far we have considered only a limited part of the environment , namely the weather .
12 Broca ( 1961 , in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) had reported that a series of patients with severe disturbances of speech had all suffered damage to the inferior part of the third frontal convolutions of their left hemispheres and Jackson ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) had described cases of ‘ petit mal ’ epilepsy which involved only a limited number of ‘ faculties ’ .
13 The scheme covers only some pollutants , and the AQMD has only a limited monitoring capacity .
14 The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research .
15 The first-time fighter arriving on the competition scene has only a limited number of techniques .
16 For example , if a company has only a limited amount of funds available to spend over the next few years , centralised management would be able to take a balanced view of how the funds should be shared out between production , marketing , research and development , motor vehicles , other fixed asset purchases in different departments etc .
17 The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen .
18 Their strategy is based upon the idea that the boss has only a limited amount of sympathy and benefits to go round , and that their herd 's problems should have priority .
19 This implies , of course , that each method has only a limited potentiality and , to this extent , particular methods can be used only for certain kinds of research objectives .
20 The emphasis , in other words , is upon good management rather than policy , an approach influenced partly by the need to minimize opposition from policy-conscious Whitehall departments , and partly because in the private sector-from which the managerial approach has largely been adopted — decision-making usually has only a limited policy content .
21 Often what happens in the context of a church service has only a limited effect as well .
22 Deletion of POU S has only a limited effect on binding to this motif .
23 If a statutory demand is served , the debtor has only a limited period within which to apply to set it aside .
24 At the same time , they provide only a limited basis for understanding the determinants of the long-run rate of growth , particularly technical progress and entrepreneurial activity .
25 It has been argued that it is wrong for such a body to impose even a limited check on the activities of an elected Government .
26 The USRC therefore made only a limited impact ; most of its members sat for industrial seats and its propaganda was concentrated there for their benefit .
27 The rest , certainly many fewer than now , will do only a limited business .
28 There can be no exclusion of the implied title undertaking , but this is somewhat misleading since it is possible under s12 of the SGA to sell only a limited interest in the goods ( see Chapter 7 ) .
29 Structured English uses only a limited subset of English and this vocabulary is exact .
30 In any real experiment one will be able to detect only a limited number of stages .
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