Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] confined to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexandra had n't heard the Colonel sound this cheerful since he 'd been confined to the wheelchair . |
| 2 | KEITH RAMSEY 'S match-winning shot for Manchester Giants in the 105-104 victory over Sunderland 76ers on Tuesday night made him the toast of the Stretford Sports Centre , particularly as all of their supporters had been confined to the bar . |
| 3 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |
| 4 | The conservative Blaize , who died of prostate cancer and had been confined to a wheelchair for the past year , lost his parliamentary majority five months ago but had clung to office despite opposition protests . |
| 5 | But the state labour exchanges established by the new legislation were by no means the first attempt to assist workers in finding jobs , though most of the previous efforts had been confined to specific trades or occupations . |
| 6 | On 18 February 1791 Granville Penn ( chairman ) supported by Rev Mr Cook , John Gretton , William Stone , Edward Topham and Huntingford , received information from Vial ( who had been confined to bed with a cold and fever , and had been unable to meet the committee 's delegation ) that he supported the amalgamation of the two plans , and that he would consult his patrons and subscribers accordingly . |
| 7 | Moreover , this was not one of those results that had been confined to his private papers , but it had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 8 | For years , the choice in London for deaf people had been confined to church-based institutes under the umbrella of the Royal Association of the Deaf and Dumb , or to the more upper-class independent National Deaf Club , which still flourished and held regular meetings as well as badminton and tennis tournaments . |
| 9 | Perhaps Mrs Longhill had already written during the days Ruth had been confined to bed . |
| 10 | His limited activities to date had been confined to an uncommitted setting-up operation . |
| 11 | Lanfranc 's authority over the Irish Church had been confined to Dublin , but shortly after his consecration Anselm wrote generally to all the bishops in Ireland urging them to establish canonical discipline , concluding with the words : |
| 12 | The overseas struggle had become closer to a world-wide contest ; the fighting outside Europe before 1713 had been confined to North America , but between 1739 and 1763 the British went far enough afield to attack the Philippines and — what was much more important — the struggle had spread to India . |
| 13 | Munson , whose previous first team outings had been confined to a handful of pre-season friendlies , may well get his chance of a Football League debut before the end of the season , but had little to do against the Norwegian Division Three champions . |
| 14 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 15 | The jury had been confined to an hotel overnight and , in the judgment of Lord Lane , C.J. , any risk of prejudice was capable of being overcome by denying it access to radio and television . |
| 16 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was a pioneer in establishing circulating libraries in country districts ; earlier , they had been confined to major towns and watering-places . |
| 19 | Noah 's Flood had been confined to the Middle East . |
| 20 | She might not know too much about men — her adult experiences had been confined to Hugh Forster — but she did know her own sex . |
| 21 | A total of 45 soldiers and two officers of the elite Atlacatl battalion had been confined to their barracks during the investigation . |
| 22 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 23 | The CDU 's choice of Schäuble , 49 , who had been confined to a wheelchair since an attempt on his life in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was the last of a series of leadership elections by all four main parties in November . |
| 24 | It was a puzzle , really , how he had ever risen as high as assistant bank manager , although there were rumours that his immediate superior , Mr Quigley , had been confined to a lunatic asylum after claiming that aliens were about to take over South-West London . |
| 25 | He also had been confined to a strip cell . |
| 26 | The audiences , though , had been confined to the especially perceptive . |
| 27 | Union affiliations to the Labour Party had been confined to those " contracting in " under the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 , and the total of affiliated unionists stood at two million throughout the 1930s . |
| 28 | Schemes which had been confined to industrial workers before the war were typically extended to include the self-employed , farm workers and domestic servants . |
| 29 | He had been confined to a wheelchair for some time and died in August , aged 41 . |