Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [be] confined to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former People 's National Security Service was to be replaced by a new State Information and Security Service , whose duties would be confined to intelligence and counter-intelligence . |
| 2 | If permanent employment was a universal feature labour would become a quasi-fixed factor in production and the room for adjusting costs would be confined to altering working hours or bonus payments . |
| 3 | Its institutions would be confined to a Council of Ministers , meeting only two or three times a year . |
| 4 | The mines would be confined to a narrow line of dunes which separate Lake St Lucia from the sea , but would still cause irreparable damage to the wetland as a whole , ecologists believe . |
| 5 | If there was no offside , games would be confined to packed goalmouths and creative football disappear . |