Example sentences of "[prep] be confined to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |
| 2 | Despite the all-party Social Services Committee report which criticised the pace at which Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , intended to introduce the reforms , as much as the proposals themselves , Tory dissent is likely to be confined to those rebels with detailed knowledge . |
| 3 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 4 | The desire to avoid using past expenditure in assessing need means that attention has often to be confined to those indicators which are easily available at the Local Authority level , but the choice often appears to be arbitrarily restricted . |
| 5 | A second prominent pattern of land use along the frontages appears for the present to be confined to those sites with a marked agricultural bias . |
| 6 | He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets . |
| 7 | The movies tackled society on the broadest front and refused to be confined to any one social zone but for all that one senses from the trade papers and social surveys that the industry had become preoccupied with its fashionable down-town audiences and that the super-cinemas were thought of as the social cutting edge of the trade . |