Example sentences of "only minimal " in BNC.

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1 In their view , only minimal forces should be trained and equipped to protect Britain 's residual interests outside the NATO area .
2 A perfectly streamlined form creates no turbulence and only minimal drag , and fluid layers are able to flow smoothly over each other .
3 The important point about statistical methods however is that at least the ones mentioned above really do require only minimal arithmetical ability .
4 Meals-on-Wheels ( organised by WRVS ) were available only two days a week ; the social services department had only minimal provision for day care in a few Part III homes .
5 The Partnerships proved a largely bureaucratic device , with little influence and only minimal funding .
6 One of the somewhat stranger requirements of companies in enterprise zones was that they would have to provide central government with only minimal statistical information .
7 Unfortunately , only minimal control over this basic aspect of construction has been possible with these devices .
8 The cost of the net is really only minimal , the method is humane , it is extremely effective and can dispose of rabbits living in situations in which all other methods either fail totally or are far less effective .
9 Night netting can be carried out after dark around well stocked game covers with only minimal disturbance to the birds in places where both shooting and ferreting the rabbits would be far more of an interference .
10 The five is equally sweet to play , with only minimal intrusion from low string fretbuzz — a common problem with heavy and loosely strung bottom Bs .
11 Which brings me to another point ; looking at the frets after only minimal use there 's already evidence of some scoring and scratching , so their life expectancy seems rather suspect .
12 It can be of higher breaking strain than the kiteline itself , as weight and drag will have only minimal effect on performance .
13 Yet , although the Republicans crassly linked the country 's economic and social problems with the presence of foreigners in Germany , those districts that voted heavily for the party had only minimal numbers of foreign residents .
14 I have seen choppers almost totally destroyed from a height of less than three inches , yet have seen many crashes which started at 100 feet , or more , and produced only minimal damage .
15 Barium was forced down her with only minimal explanation , and when I protested the radiologist swore and told me to ‘ mind my place ’ while the assisting radiographer quickly looked away .
16 ( What is less widely known is that Draize testing need involve only minimal discomfort ; the animals are under local anaesthetics and are humanely killed upon completion . )
17 Since no external coding is required , only minimal debugging and testing are required for application generation , according to the company .
18 Pressing for the abolition of the pernicious fee system had been an obvious target but he also pressed for liquor taps to be banned and the sale of drink to inmates to be closely regulated ; for the gaolers to be resident at the gaol instead of offering only minimal supervision if they lived away from it ; for the provision of chaplains and doctors and the detailing and publishing of prison rules and regulations .
19 But their behaviour under this range of conditions and despite differing genetic origins , is essentially similar , as it is in the abundant free-living herds where only minimal management ( usually stallion selection ) is practised .
20 Section 36(5) stresses his independence allowing only minimal involvement at an earlier stage of the investigation .
21 Thus , with only minimal slum clearance , housing overcrowding ( percentage of persons living at more than two per room ) declined by nearly a half in the 1920s from 35 to 24% .
22 The degree of self-sufficiency described in the previous example is unlikely to be attained if the tasks children are engaged in command only minimal commitment and personal involvement .
23 If communication is characterized as a successful attempt to alter the mental state of another human being , it seems that the most successful communication will take place where there is already a considerable coincidence between mental states , and the alteration achieved is only minimal .
24 Although not totally unfettered , the sentencing powers that are available under the English penal system are subject to only minimal external constraints on the way they are exercised .
25 They received little guidance as to the aims they should be pursuing , few broad policy direc-tions , and only minimal direction as to the principles they should apply in approaching their task .
26 A survey record had been falsified to show that the Manchus were not entitled to the protection of citizenship — that in fact they were aliens possessed of only minimal intelligence .
27 He had not expected that they would be worshipped like gods , but on a world where technological ability excited only minimal interest , all of them were at a considerable disadvantage until they were able to prove themselves against local standards of performance .
28 Most women would agree that if only minimal pain relief is used the birth is much more focused and the baby may be better off too .
29 He gained only minimal official recognition for his work ; death prevented his election to the Royal Society .
30 Bourdieu 's epistemology , like the poststructuralists , grants only minimal autonomy to human-scientific practices from the field of power .
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