Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be limited to " in BNC.

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1 In the first instance , the certificate may be limited to the taking of counsel 's opinion and another application may have to be made to the Area Director to amend the certificate for further action if counsel 's opinion appears to warrant it .
2 The defence may be limited to the amount of the claim ( Ord 19 , r 2(6) ) .
3 Bronchoscopy is a time-consuming , hospital-bound procedure ; ideally the technique should be limited to high-risk patients .
4 But the response must be limited to the amount of force necessary to protect them .
5 Thus , from a national view , only the University of Cambridge through its Board for Extra-Mural Studies was undertaking a significant volume of new Chapter III activity and it was a matter of concern both to the National WEA and the District that its encroachment into the established and defined sphere of provision should be limited to the two counties in which earlier and exceptional arrangements had been agreed .
6 Harmonisation could be limited to essential requirements in order for health and public safety considerations to be accounted for , and to ensure technical compatibility of products .
7 Another industry chief reiterating his position at Geneva was Fiat SpA chairman Gianni Agnelli , who said that Japanese penetration would be limited to 15 to 18 per cent for a transitional period , and after that all restrictions should be dropped .
8 For most builders management accounting will be limited to the production of a few fundamental sets of additional information , although the national contractors will have developed many finely tuned and sophisticated management accounting techniques .
9 The taxpayer may seek to raise a robust argument based on fundamental Schedule E rules that the benefit should be limited to the amount which the taxpayer could obtain on a sale of the rights ( Tennant v Smith ( 1892 ) 3 TC 158 , Abbott v Philbin ( 1960 ) 39 TC 82 and Heaton v Bell ( 1969 ) 46 TC 11 ) .
10 For example , the first constitution of independent India in 1947 laid down that foreign ownership should be limited to less than half in oil , and in certain other restricted sectors .
11 However , even here there are some differences : the German position , officially supported by Bonn , is that work should be based on the international agreements signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin , under which the issue would be limited to the return of treasures located on their territory .
12 ( 2 ) Subject to para ( 3 ) ( below ) , the parties must make discovery by serving lists of documents and ; ( a ) subject to sub-para ( c ) , each party must make and serve on every other party a list of documents which are or have been in his possession , custody or power relating to any matter in question between them in the action ; ( b ) the court may , on application ; ( i ) order that discovery under this paragraph shall be limited to such documents or classes of documents only , or as to such only of the matters in question , as may be specified in the order , or ( ii ) if satisfied that discovery by all or any of the parties is not necessary , order that there shall be no discovery of documents by any or all of the parties ; and the court shall make such an order if and so far as it is of opinion that discovery is not necessary either for disposing fairly of the action or for saving costs ; ( c ) where liability is admitted or in an action for personal injuries arising out of a road accident , discovery shall be limited to disclosure of any documents relating to the amount of damages ; ( d ) the provisions of Ord 14 of these rules relating to inspection of documents shall apply where discovery is made under this paragraph as it applies where discovery is made under that Order .
13 The plantations would be open to foreign acquisition but overall foreign ownership would be limited to 30 or 40 per cent .
14 Initially Virtual Network Architecture will be limited to the local area network : each DragonSwitch module supports 16 Ethernet ports and up to five modules can be slotted into each Access/One chassis .
15 This suggests that the rise could be limited to 63 centimetres by 2100 — compared to earlier predictions of as much as 5 metres .
16 The value of returns in any six months period will be limited to 12% of the gross invoiced sales achieved in the previous six months .
17 Enrolment will be limited to 35 participants .
18 I have been sufficiently foolhardy to raise the issue from time to time with small groups of individuals who put their point of view to me when it is easy to be civilised and who propose arrangements whereby Sunday trading could be limited to certain times , to shops of a particular size , to the selling of particular goods or to certain types of shop .
19 According to Mr Zhu , the foreign inspiration will be limited to ‘ subdued and relaxed fashion with lace trim ’ .
20 Using this method the idling current can be limited to very low values whilst maintaining the large voltage and current swings required to drive a loudspeaker .
21 Various writers of the classical school , such as Fayol , Graicunas and Urwick , argued that the managerial span of control should be limited to between three and six .
22 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 .
23 The warranty should be limited to the Vendor 's knowledge .
24 The maximum net dividend would be limited to the lower of :
25 The student intake would be limited to those who have a genuine literary sensibility , who are interested in poetry , and are already in the habit of reading it .
26 The agreement , like those that had preceded it , envisaged a directly elected presidency , and a bicameral legislature made up on a republican and a population basis , respectively ; central authority would be limited to those spheres of activity that had been specifically delegated by the members of the union .
27 Microprocessors for real-time control applications ( e.g. Motorola 6800 , Intel 8080 ) have instruction cycle times of 1 — 2 us and therefore a software.based closed.loop control would be limited to 25–50 instructions per motor step at high speeds , which would restrict control to simple functions , such as step timing , step counting and phase sequencing .
28 It soon became apparent that the working time each week would be limited to about two hours .
29 Demand came from those brave fund managers acting in the belief that a reactive fall in the market after a Tory defeat this morning will be limited to about 150 points on the main index .
30 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 .
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