Example sentences of "be limit to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are likely to be limits to the extent to which such acclimatization is possible . |
| 2 | There must be limits to the power of consumerism . |
| 3 | If the ‘ emancipation ’ of women has yet to run its full course , there should be limits to the extent one would expect it to have influenced demographic trends . |
| 4 | If the formal organisation is highly centralised , there will be limits to how far a task can be restructured by an individual manager . |
| 5 | f ) Availability of data : there will be limits to the kind of information that is readily accessible , and to the finance available to obtain it . |
| 6 | That apart , there have to be limits to the manager 's isolation . |
| 7 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |
| 8 | From time to time there have been limits to the amount that councils can spend per house ( the ‘ cost yardstick ’ ) and minimum standards have been established since the 1967 recommendations of the Parker Morris Committee . |
| 9 | Common sense may tell us something different : that there are limits to growth ( or more accurately , perhaps , to real disposable income ) , imposed not so much by the depletion of fossil fuels and mineral which worried the Club of Rome , but by numbers of people and the cost of a worldwide defence of the environment . |
| 10 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 11 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 12 | There are limits to the sort of events that deserve attention . |
| 13 | Pace , in a cogent criticism of Parker J. 's judgment , argues that while consistency in the law may have its merits , there are limits to the extent to which it should be pursued : |
| 14 | So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ? |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there are limits to the extent to which tribunals can lean in your favour in such a case . |
| 16 | The development of co-operation or conflict has its own momentum , and there are limits to the extent that rational effort can influence it . |
| 17 | Some invoice discounters believe the two markets will become even more separate , though there are limits to this process because the larger bank-owned organisations combine factoring and invoice discounting under one roof . |
| 18 | Clearly , there are limits to critical self-consciousness : it makes the book limp home . |
| 19 | In France , as everywhere , there are limits to what is politically possible . |
| 20 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 21 | However , there are limits to the functional capacities of the state — it can not transcend the contradictions of capitalism . |
| 22 | But there are limits to what such a institution can achieve . |
| 23 | Hence families in this kind of modern society are not all alike , although there are limits to the range of variation . |
| 24 | There are limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits it is flexible . |
| 25 | Yet there are limits to their inventive adaptability , limits beyond which we often push them . |
| 26 | So , recognising that there are limits to the exercise of this inherent jurisdiction , I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that I can conceive of no situation where it would be a proper exercise of the jurisdiction to make such an order as was made in the present case : that is to order a doctor , whether directly or indirectly , to treat a child in a manner contrary to his or her clinical judgment . |
| 27 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 28 | Broadly , there is today a consensus that there are limits to the extent to which those who study and write about society can set aside their own commitments and prejudices . |
| 29 | We saw in the previous section that there are limits to rationality , and that thought can and does break through those limits on different levels . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , there are limits to the extent that charity can be an effective form of financing social welfare . |