Example sentences of "the [noun sg] limit " in BNC.
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| 1 | People with higher incomes will have their age allowance reduced by £1 for every £2 of income above the income limit . |
| 2 | At first the allowance was £10 for each child under sixteen years of age , but this and the income limit were raised during the First World War , and later , in 1919 , the age limit for the child was abolished provided he or she was still in full-time education . |
| 3 | The following year , on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Income Tax ( 1920 ) , the child allowance was increased to £30 and the income limit removed altogether on the grounds that ‘ in all ranges of income some regard should be had to the taxpayers marital and family responsibilities ’ … and that ‘ rates of tax should be so adjusted that the taxation to be borne by each class should be redistributed among the individual taxpayers in that class with due recognition of family obligations ’ ( Section VIII ) . |
| 4 | The sliding scale of pension resulted from a Commons amendment , an attempt to minimize hardship for those narrowly above the income limit . |
| 5 | The Bar has lost by the gradual extension of county court jurisdiction ( where solicitors have the right of audience ) ; and the income limit for legal aid in civil cases has fallen well behind inflation , so that few people are now eligible for it . |
| 6 | Excluded groups and those just above the income limit always felt aggrieved and pressed for inclusion . |
| 7 | On HLCAs they recommend paying the maximum EEC rates to the areas of greatest handicap ; lowering the stocking limit per hectare or linking HLCAs to the area of rough grazing on a farm so that farms with the most rough grazing receive the greater payments . |
| 8 | Mr Major added : ‘ This , together with the implementation of restructuring designed to develop the relationship between pay and performance in schools , will give teachers , like most other review body groups , an increase in pay of 1.5 per cent , while containing the total cost within the settlement limit . ’ |
| 9 | The Fine Arts Society denies this , but by lowering the price to £35,000 , just under the export limit , and selling to a foreign buyer , they also avoided the 17% VAT ( sales tax ) on their profit which they would have paid had they sold to a British institution . |
| 10 | Try to fight in the lightest category you can manage without heavy dieting because , theoretically , the heavier you are within the weight limit , the more power you can pack into techniques . |
| 11 | In tests by Gloucester trading standards officers , more than 70 per cent of caravans were found to be over the weight limit . |
| 12 | His inability to make the weight limit forced him to relinquish his title , but two years later , at the age of 22 , he moved back to the USA and won the featherweight crown ( subsequently losing it , regaining it , losing it again and winning it back finally in 1898 ) . |
| 13 | If you wish to send an item that exceeds the weight limit on your pre-paid SWIFTPACK the excess is charged at normal airmail rates . |
| 14 | The Freight Transport Association claimed that raising the weight limit to 44 tonnes for all vehicles would have taken more heavy lorries off the road , reduced carbon dioxide emissions and saved the road haulage industry millions of pounds . |
| 15 | Where the bus , and you know where the buses park and everything , that used to be all sidings right under that bridge that 's got the weight limit on |
| 16 | According to the council , the garden was indeed large but much of it was paved ; the property was in an urban area where the speed limit was 30mph ; the shops were located 700 yards from the property ; |
| 17 | The rules : do n't pick up hitchers , do n't drink in the car , do n't exceed the speed limit , do n't drive after 10 at night , and do n't miss the delivery date unless you want to go to jail . |
| 18 | The elevated highways over the Louisiana swamplands were needle straight , and we started to snap the speed limit , just a little . |
| 19 | Almost half of the company-car drivers surveyed thought that it was acceptable to drive at 90mph on a motorway ( 20mph over the speed limit ) , compared with a quarter of drivers of privately-owned cars . |
| 20 | A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on . |
| 21 | The speed limit is a rigidly enforced 20 mph . |
| 22 | In built-up areas , for example , special slow-reacting catalytic surfaces will automatically enforce the speed limit . |
| 23 | Their proposals are for a traffic-calming ramp or similar device , or even just a sign reminding drivers of the speed limit . |
| 24 | They would like to see traffic calming ramps or even just more signs reminding drivers of the speed limit . |
| 25 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 26 | This is anecdotal evidence to be sure , but given the lack of any measures to enforce the speed limit it was hard to see how any safety gains had been made here at all . |
| 27 | the speed limit 's for boys not real men |
| 28 | I exceed the speed limit , park anywhere , and I 've even — in the past — failed to pay my road tax . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ What was the speed limit in the ring during those last couple of rounds ? |
| 30 | This time Myeloski broke the speed limit without hesitation . |