Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] be confine to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 2 | It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas . |
| 3 | By and large , the soil-dwelling enemies of the rose are confined to the several kinds of chafer . |
| 4 | The UN called for a ceasefire but before this was agreed the Dutch secured all major ports and the authority of the republic was confined to a mere one-third of Java , centred on Jogjakarta . |
| 5 | It can also be asked whether the influence of a factor is confined to a particular ‘ sensitive period ’ . |