Example sentences of "be limited to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the company had formerly been limited to films which cost between £150,000 and 200,000 , it could now stretch up to £700,000 . |
| 2 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 3 | The conference being of a very high level , the participants had been limited to just eighteen very distinguished gentlemen and two ladies — a German countess and the formidable Mrs Eleanor Austin , at that time still resident in Berlin ; but each of these might reasonably bring secretaries , valets and interpreters , and there proved no way of ascertaining the precise number of such persons to expect . |
| 4 | Until then , because of the Ecclesiastical Exemption , which exempts churches in use from listed building controls , grants had been limited to secular buildings on the principle ‘ no control : no money ’ . |
| 5 | So far discussion has been limited to discussing the beneficiary 's ability to recover the trust property where it had passed into the hands of a third party : in principle the beneficiary was able to follow it , but his claim could be barred depending on the nature of the acquisition by the third party . |
| 6 | My purpose has been limited to increasing a level of awareness , rather than attempting to supply solutions . |
| 7 | Modernization and upgrading have been limited to the installation of central heating and double glazing throughout . |
| 8 | The price of places has been limited to £10 . |
| 9 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 10 | Analysis has been limited to manufacturing , but similar trends were occurring in other sectors , and the process of concentration had features which are of more general significance . |
| 11 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 12 | For practical reasons , therefore , damages have been limited to disgorgement of profits . |
| 13 | Ground fighting has been limited to sporadic artillery exchanges , and a handful of patrol clashes ; but this situation may change massively by the time this issue goes on sale . |
| 14 | Even in its best days the circulation of the magazine had been limited to some eight hundred subscribers ( most of whom were " Eliot watchers " , according to Stephen Spender ) and by the time it had ceased publication that number had dropped to a couple of hundred . |
| 15 | " Extent " was regarded as limited if sexual intercourse or other experience beyond kissing and petting had been limited to not more than one partner during lifetime . |
| 16 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 17 | Even in the engineering companies the role of the unions seemed to have been limited to ensuring that , in other than their temporary status , temporary workers were not disadvantaged and received the same fringe benefits ( except membership of company pension schemes ) as regular workers . |
| 18 | Many of the recent forecasts ( Diamond and Smith , 1982 , 1984 ; Diamond , 1985 ; AUT , 1983 ; Collins , 1983 ) have been limited to the university sector because the existence of the Universities Central Council for Admissions ( UCCA ) means that some individual level data are available at a national level . |
| 19 | Inside , the use of metal has been limited to the disk drive cage , the hard disk mounting plate , the power supply box and a panel that takes the power switch , reset button et al . |
| 20 | Her childhood hardships had been limited to undergoing doting but humourless tirades from her mother . |
| 21 | Many members were concerned that the Sunday club searches had become too crowded , and club membership has now been limited to 75 people . |
| 22 | Personal transport had since the dawn of time been limited to footslogging or a horse not too exhausted by its labour in the fields . |
| 23 | It 's Thee Headcoats ( Already ) ’ , the latest release from ex-Milkshake BILLY CHILDISH , Mudhoney frontman MARK ARM 's debut solo single , a cover of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Masters of War ’ , which has been limited to 5,000 copies , SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS ’ , ‘ Wheels A-Spinning ’ single and DICKLESS ’ ‘ I 'm A Man' , which should reach the shops soon . |
| 24 | There is no evidence that at any of these houses Smythson was involved on the same day-to-day basis as at Longleat and Wollaton ; his contribution must often have been limited to the provision of a set of plans and elevations , which were liable to alteration at the whim of the patron and executive craftsmen . |
| 25 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 26 | The implications of this theory are so powerful that the impact of modern linguistics on literary studies has not been limited to problems of literary language alone , but has produced new theories of the nature and organization of literature as a whole and indeed of all social and cultural life . |
| 27 | As a result , the general equilibrium analysis of tax incidence has , for the most part , been limited to the competitive equilibrium framework described in Lecture 7 . |
| 28 | All Kate 's previous sexual experience had been limited to clumsy caresses which she 'd had no difficulty in resisting . |
| 29 | That will be possible because I made the scheme more flexible , so the FHSAs are allowed to use the funds that would previously have been limited to practice premises and ancillary staff to support the continued development and expansion of computerisation of primary health care . |
| 30 | Quality Circles have received a lot of attention in the media over the last three years but , in general , studies of Circles have so far been limited to subjective analysis by interested parties . |