Example sentences of "be [prep] limited " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may also be of limited use when trying to judge the success of many plans . |
| 2 | That they are an essential part of any system of parliamentary democracy will be of limited consolation to them . |
| 3 | However , it should be stressed that diagnosis is only one of the aims of assessment and diagnosis on its own may be of limited value in developing strategies for intervention ( Crystal 1984 ) . |
| 4 | When this is not the case , as with non-Western cultures ( and as it might be with deaf people ) , then the theories produced may be of limited value . |
| 5 | ELITE OF THE FLEET by Peter Morgan is a book composed entirely of photos of embroidered ‘ patches ’ as worn by American Naval aviators from 1927 to the present day and as such will be of limited interest to the general reader of aircraft literature . |
| 6 | It also suggests that educational reforms will be of limited success unless complemented by policies such as contract compliance which act directly upon demand-side institutions . |
| 7 | Julian Spalding , the director of Glasgow museums , says he did not want to ‘ create just a museum of Christianity , because that would be of limited appeal and too narrow in range . ’ |
| 8 | They will be of limited use as evidence that system requirements are being met . |
| 9 | As a result , there use as a deterrent for enforcing Chinese Walls will be of limited effect . |
| 10 | If the originator is unable to put in the time and effort required , the OI can only be of limited help ( Rosenfeld and Servo , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 12 | But this would be of limited value to the defendant , since any costs recovered by the defendant would be subject to a charge in favour of the board under section 16 of the Act and the operation of regulation 103 of the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , the detail of which I need not examine , and would have the effect in this case that the defendant would in fact recover only a very small proportion of the costs he actually incurred . |
| 13 | Even if consideration had been confined to health education as opposed to the broader concept of health promotion , the interventions could readily have been predicted to be of limited value . |
| 14 | The bill of quantities may be of limited use because many items of the work will be presented in a summarised form . |
| 15 | As Laffin and Young ( 1985 , p. 59 ) conclude , ‘ it is quite clear that chief officers are going to have to live with an increasingly uncertain and tempestuous political environment and any new ground rules will be of limited value ’ . |
| 16 | Work itself may be a pleasure and the monetary reward may be of limited importance after a minimum income is gained . |
| 17 | The Oxford Archaeological Unit has stated the site to be of limited interest and have said that a full excavation would suffice to investigate it . |
| 18 | Firstly , clients suffering from senile dementia , and their carers , are deliberately excluded from investigation , the argument being that ‘ Issues of choice and participation may be of limited relevance to elderly people with mental impairment ’ . |
| 19 | Fixed-term appointments are offered by the Board only where the job is expected to be of limited duration or there are exceptional management reasons for appointing someone for only a limited period to an ongoing job . |
| 20 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 21 | This did not take place , however , because schools would be required to go through the process at different times and such training would probably be of limited value for schools which were not to undertake an appraisal for some time . |
| 22 | A work on the birds of Europe might be of limited scientific value , as Gould himself confessed — it could hardly uncover any startling revelations — but it would be bound to attract the crucial number of subscribers . |
| 23 | Fighter Pilot 's Handbook ( Arms and Armour , 224pp , illus , sbk , £14.99 ) by John Roberts , will be of limited interest to the die-hard FlyPast reader . |
| 24 | The main exclusions of the policy still operate and such a clause may be of limited use , but its existence is worth investigating . |
| 25 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 26 | The reason is that while it may be in limited supply , it is n't unique . |