Example sentences of "[is] limited to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this seems an abstruse form of cultivation it is not one that is limited to modern agriculture , but can be found in many suburban gardens where , acre for acre , the concentrations of both fertilizer and pesticide are higher than on the average arable farm . |
| 2 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |
| 3 | Even at this level , evaluation of the war 's influence is superficial , because it is limited to political , legislative and institutional innovation . |
| 4 | The exemption is limited to integral transactions and does not apply to other investments . |
| 5 | Discovery under s33(2) is limited to personal injury cases . |
| 6 | These empirically derived curves can be expressed in mathematical form if the range of the variables is limited to practical values . |
| 7 | This analogy represents the global political system as a vast billiard-table on which the actors , the nation-states , are the billiard-balls : self-contained sealed units whose interaction is limited to superficial clashes . |
| 8 | But correct as the analysis may be it is limited to pragmatic instrumentalist legal theory , and the prescription fails to take account of social theories which may help to explain the changes in the rule of law over time . |
| 9 | This is , as it were , an extract from a big wall painting ; and while fig. 108 gives us a whole composition , this brings us much nearer to the colour effect , though not quite there since the vase-painter is limited to clay-based colours which will withstand firing . |
| 10 | Accordingly this study is limited to taxonomic aspects . |
| 11 | At present the only means of query expansion is limited to matching terms wherever these may occur in the bibliographic record . |
| 12 | In addition , although the suggested Directive is limited to public companies , the accompanying explanatory note shows that consideration is being given to extending its scope to private companies , so that it would effectively apply to private companies which are subsidiaries of a public company ( the normal UK group structure ) . |
| 13 | Even when the discussion is limited to public sector organizations there are still difficulties . |
| 14 | A good loading tune makes up for this , although in-game sound is limited to sparse hitting FX — oh well , you can always take your radio down to the beach ! |
| 15 | E. Griew , The Theft Acts 1968 – 1978 , 6th edn , Sweet & Maxwell , 1990 , 211 , wrote : [ i ] f a blackmailing demand is " made " as soon as it is spoken or dispatched beyond recall , the possibility of a case of attempted blackmail is limited to fanciful situations such as where [ the accused ] is affected by a stammer or interrupted in the act of posting . |
| 16 | From day to day , this is limited to sweeping or vacuuming , with a spot application of seal should wear ever become evident ( in the domestic situation , this can often be as long as five years from the date of installation ) . |