noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a speed restriction
▪ New speed restrictions have been introduced.
export controls/restrictions/quotas (=official limits on the number of exports)
▪ The European Parliament wants tougher export controls on certain goods.
▪ The number of goods subject to import and export quotas is being reduced.
import restrictions/controls (=laws which reduce or limit the amount of imports)
▪ Severe import controls were introduced.
lift a restriction/an embargo/sanctions etc
▪ The government plans to lift its ban on cigar imports.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ The endorsement details certain restrictions in the cover.
▪ Setup fees and certain restrictions may apply.
▪ Unrelieved losses may also be carried forward and, subject to certain restrictions, set against future profits.
▪ If you have a limb disability you may still be entitled to a licence, but there may be certain restrictions.
▪ The sentencing powers of magistrates are subject to certain general statutory restrictions in addition to the maximum penalties prescribed for each individual offence.
▪ This details certain restrictions on the cover for the collection.
▪ There were certain additional restrictions upon the types of weapon systems that could be deployed within these limits.
▪ The achievement of these aims imposed certain restrictions on the methods used during this stage of the field research.
further
▪ Other measures including further restrictions on access to cigarettes and on the promotion of tobacco products need to be considered.
▪ Riggs said Clinton administration representatives agreed to the further funding restriction in return for congressional leaders' blessing of the spending bill.
▪ There are no further restrictions on outside ownership of member firms. 3.
▪ To do this it will be necessary to place some further restrictions on the model.
▪ Nearly a third have introduced restrictions, or further restrictions, on smoking in the past 12 months.
▪ Although I favour examination rigour, further restriction on available content will be an inevitable outcome.
▪ For example, there is a case for a further restriction on the sale of knives and for licensing shops.
▪ Through the use of registers ATNs are able to enforce further restrictions on the input such as number agreement.
legal
▪ Her duties differ from a preregistration house officer's only in line with the legal restrictions on nursing staff.
▪ But legal restrictions can significantly increase health risks as abortion services are driven underground.
▪ Did they cease to bind in the early s when various legal restrictions were removed?
▪ Legal restrictions Restrictive-trade-practices legislation is only one of the multitude of legal restrictions on concentrated power.
▪ The existing policy is one of seeking abortion on demand, up to the point of birth and without legal or medical restriction.
▪ I wrote asking if my information still applied or had some legal restrictions been imposed since the programme had been shown?
new
▪ It goes without saying that any infringements of these new restrictions will imperil what is already an extremely sensitive access agreement.
▪ The House passed its own new restrictions on illegal immigration on March 21.
▪ These will include maintaining the status quo, retaining hunting with new restrictions, a partial ban, and a total ban.
▪ Grand Canyon visits should be a little quieter this year, thanks to new noise restrictions for sightseeing flights.
▪ But on the other hand increasing age brought new social restrictions.
▪ Historically, weapon sales have jumped during legislative debate of gun-ownership controls and before any new restrictions become law.
▪ By now a new restriction had been placed on their friendship by both parents.
▪ In effect, Gingrich is holding the Interior Department hostage to his attempt to put new restrictions on Medicare patients.
reporting
▪ But reporting restrictions on naming him were lifted.
▪ The defence asked for reporting restriction to be lifted.
▪ He was remanded in custody to appear again next Thursday. Reporting restrictions were not lifted.
▪ Teesside magistrates also lifted reporting restrictions in the case.
▪ The court or the Secretary of State may waive reporting restrictions in individual cases for the benefit of the child.
▪ The defendants are to appear again on January 12. Reporting restrictions were not lifted.
▪ The youth was remanded in custody until November 11. Reporting restrictions were not lifted.
severe
▪ Since an expanding post-war economy stimulated immigration into Britain, governments have imposed more and more severe restrictions on entry.
▪ That's when Boylston initially sentenced Sherrod to 179 days in jail, then transferred the sentence to Holley with severe restrictions.
▪ This is a severe restriction which the travelling matte overcomes.
▪ Most lived under severe restrictions, but some dealt with their neighbors on a near-equal basis.
▪ To a large extent this is due to the severe restriction on building.
▪ Environmental lawyers warned that this ruling would place severe restrictions on future law suits.
▪ The rigours of their existence place severe restrictions on the kind of rugs that can be made.
strict
▪ It may be difficult to move areas since many local authorities and some housing associations operate strict residence restrictions.
▪ Fife Symington, most public lands in Arizona are under strict fire restrictions.
▪ Under the Belfast Urban Area Plan strict restrictions have been placed on any further office development outside the city centre.
▪ You can give away things like this and have very strict restrictions on them.
▪ Many governments are very strict about imposing restrictions on the importation of foodstuffs which contain excessive concentrations of heavy metals.
▪ Most of the smaller names impose strict restrictions on membership.
tight
▪ Mr Stoiber has been in the forefront of those calling for tighter restrictions on asylum-seekers and ordinary immigrants.
▪ The rest will be open to exploration companies under tight restrictions.
▪ But under a voluntary agreement, the parent retains parental responsibility, and tight restrictions should only apply in extreme circumstances.
tough
▪ Britain bans cigarette advertising on television, but, with tough restrictions, allows other tobacco advertising.
▪ Many states are devising programs with even tougher restrictions.
▪ The proposal came amid fears that the Ministry of Agriculture might introduce tougher restrictions or even an outright ban.
■ NOUN
enzyme
▪ A single band was found for each restriction enzymes and combinations mentioned above.
▪ Abbreviations for restriction enzyme sites: H, Hin dIII.
▪ Control amplifications on samples to show that a constant restriction enzyme site can be cut strengthen confidence in the analysis.
fragment
▪ Renin and atrial natriuretic peptide restriction fragment length polymorphisms: association with ethnicity and blood pressure.
import
▪ The emergency import restriction on cultural artifacts from El Salvador has been extended for another three years.
▪ However, with semen import restrictions off and markets opened up, that has changed with a vengeance.
▪ Details of any import restrictions or payment restrictions imposed by the government of the foreign country.
▪ This will produce more pressure in the west for import restrictions.
▪ The report claims that this would be more effective than resorting to timber import restrictions and the imposition of logging bans.
site
▪ Incomplete restriction sites produced on the junctions with linkers and adapters are indicated by enzymes with asterisks.
▪ BglII, XhoI and BamHI restriction sites are at equivalent positions in each of the repeats as shown.
▪ Several deletion mutants were prepared by exploiting singular restriction sites in the cDNA to enable progressive sequencing.
▪ Only relevant restriction sites are indicated in the expanded regions.
▪ If the mutation creates or destroys a restriction site then this can be simply examined in the products of the reaction.
speed
▪ Track renewals are also becoming overdue, with a succession of speed restrictions because of the condition of parts of the line.
▪ At the end of April there will still be 61 speed restrictions across the network.
▪ Previous requests have been turned down as the Transport Department felt the road did not meet criteria for imposing speed restrictions.
trade
▪ The bill was the textile lobby's third attempt within the last five years to mandate trade restrictions.
▪ Instead, heavy trade restrictions were levied, driving the young country into a period of isolation that lasted over a century.
▪ The parameters in Tables 2 and 3 can now be used to simulate the effects of trade restrictions. 6.
▪ Nevertheless the pursuit of policies based on national self-interest led to competitive depreciation and the introduction of tariffs and other trade restrictions.
▪ Even with the present trade restrictions it is estimated that we spend more than £350 million on liquor abroad every year.
travel
▪ The tournament was played over three rounds as a result of local government elections and the imposition of travel restrictions.
■ VERB
apply
▪ As no water is pumped through the unit, no flow rate restrictions apply.
▪ Setup fees and certain restrictions may apply.
▪ This restriction on copying applies equally to single, group and site licences.
▪ The restriction applies within a 100-foot radius around any clinic entrance.
▪ However, change in control restrictions may also apply on a share sale.
▪ These restrictions do not apply to teachers.
▪ Winners must pay airport departure tax and fees of up to $ 45; other restrictions also apply.
ease
▪ The number of deals will grow as the finance ministry eases restrictions on raising capital offshore.
▪ Then, a couple of weeks ago, Congress passed the Telecommunications Reform Act, which eases restrictions on cross-ownership of media.
▪ The directive is designed to ease labour market restrictions and strengthen the single market.
▪ But he supported an amendment that would have eased the restrictions.
▪ The security forces began easing the curfew restrictions on Feb. 5.
▪ This easing of restrictions opened the floodgates for commercial Internet access.
▪ Within five years, 45 states had similarly eased restrictions on divorce, and now all 50 have such laws.
▪ The proposal calls for easing land-use restrictions and establishing a road-financing plan so sparsely used properties can be turned into thriving enterprises.
impose
▪ We did not want to impose this restriction here but wanted to let the data reveal individual preferences.
▪ In 1996, voters adopted Proposition 208, which imposes restrictions on candidate spending but does not affect ballot measure campaigns.
▪ The measures imposed new restrictions on press reporting of the Kurdish insurgency in south-east Anatolia.
▪ In 1921, the Emergency Quota Act was the first to impose a numerical restriction on immigrants.
▪ Increasingly, campaigners are demanding that countries impose restrictions on advertising aimed at children.
▪ Each region offers different opportunities and imposes different kinds of restriction on its inhabitants.
▪ Other allied countries imposed similar restrictions on reporting.
▪ Remaining with our inflation-unemployment example where, we need to impose an additional restriction on the behaviour of the prediction error.
introduce
▪ Nearly a third have introduced restrictions, or further restrictions, on smoking in the past 12 months.
▪ We now introduce another restriction: the production technology for differentiated products is homothetic.
▪ Some companies which have introduced smoking restrictions have faced resignations over the issue, he said.
▪ The proposal came amid fears that the Ministry of Agriculture might introduce tougher restrictions or even an outright ban.
▪ Second, rational expectations often introduces restrictions which may be tested against the data.
lift
▪ Among them is one that would lift restrictions on the voting rights of shares.
▪ The accent was on lifting restrictions on individual liberty.
▪ Some countries have lifted restrictions on nationality and now allow local nationals to set up in the zones.
▪ The unions were challenged to lift restrictions on radios, the movement of staff between stations and the carrying of seriously-ill patients.
place
▪ In response the authorities had to place restrictions on capital imports. 6.
▪ To do this it will be necessary to place some further restrictions on the model.
▪ All but one of those released have been placed under heavy restriction orders.
▪ Environmental lawyers warned that this ruling would place severe restrictions on future law suits.
▪ Not withstanding his attempts to appease conservative critics, Mr Frohnmayer's aversion to placing any restrictions on artistic freedom was increasingly apparent.
▪ The papacy, to maintain orthodoxy, placed restrictions on which universities could teach theology.
▪ Few insurers place any restrictions on young people using an organ.
remove
▪ It also removed many of the restrictions imposed during the period of military rule between 1964 and 1985.
▪ And he wants to remove the restrictions on how much money a party can spend on its own candidates.
▪ The first will aim to remove restrictions on where the funds can invest, and who can manage them.
▪ But Clinton said he vetoed that bill, partly because Republicans removed restrictions on corporate raids on pension funds.
▪ Pay for all medical care with after-tax dollars. Remove restrictions on insurers and let people buy for themselves inexpensive insurance.
▪ This ability removes the restriction on context-free grammars that only a finite set of grammatical categories are allowed.
▪ The climate of deregulation made it necessary to remove restrictions on the ability of building societies to compete in financial markets.
tighten
▪ On June 17 the authorities published the text of new regulations which tightened existing restrictions on demonstrations.
▪ Fujisaki said he decided to tighten previous restrictions after learning that Caraway had agreed to a television interview.
▪ Successive legislative steps have been taken since then to tighten the restrictions on access to tobacco by young children.
▪ But he said they would tighten restrictions for building on coastal hillsides.
▪ State legislatures responded by tightening restrictions and supervision of slave activities.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clamp sanctions/restrictions etc on sb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Congress voted to lift trade restrictions against Iran.
▪ For a while they tried using price restrictions as a way of controlling inflation.
▪ The restrictions imposed by the censors make objective reporting of news impossible.
▪ There are restrictions on what you can bring into the country. Alcohol, for example, is totally forbidden.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But no journey restrictions will be lifted completely, and all journey times will take longer than normal.
▪ Farming policy in Cumbria was greatly influenced by the heavy rainfall and the restrictions imposed by the National Park Regulations.
▪ It is modern technology all wrapped up without the cable to trip over, and the restriction of power point locations.
▪ Most lived under severe restrictions, but some dealt with their neighbors on a near-equal basis.
▪ Registered companies are exempted from all taxes on approved activities, and no currency or exchange restrictions are imposed.
▪ The restrictions on trading are designed to limit the potential impact of the options market on the stock market.
▪ The Act is a mass of technical paperwork and restriction.