Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] be confine to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter group there had often been erosion of their first language and their command of English was confined to the language they needed for everyday use . |
| 2 | Our results indicate that this effect of phosphate is confined to the proximal small intestine because increased dietary phosphate did not significantly increase the solubility of fatty acids in the ileum , colon , and faeces ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 3 | All non-managerial personnel belong to the same union , but the privilege of membership is confined to regular workers . |
| 4 | Drawing on research by Nordenstam ( 1979 ) , Rogers ( 1981 ) and Trudgill ( 1982 ) , Trudgill reaches the conclusion that the fixed route of acquisition is confined to adults , or perhaps more probably to adolescents . |
| 5 | These effects of cisapride were confined to the mid and distal oesophagus . |
| 6 | In case anyone thinks this sort of thing is confined to earlier times and feudal societies , it is well to consider some more recent debates in European societies like France , Germany and Italy where grammatical gender languages are spoken . |
| 7 | Where a sentence is imposed that clearly exceeds the tariff , it is liable to be reduced on appeal , and traditionally the role of the Court of Appeal was confined to checking a sentencer 's discretion retrospectively in this way . |
| 8 | His knowledge of Paris was confined to the underworld , but he did know that the bandit , Chicot , had a mistress who was said to be British . |
| 9 | Tait yawned into a white hand , the well-disguised yawn of a man whose only knowledge of torture was confined to that inflicted by sitting through committees . |
| 10 | If the scope of reason is confined to refining and systematising imperatives and deducing them from each other , how can it ever change their relation to the spontaneous ? |
| 11 | The queen herself was quite ready to concede that her area of responsibility was confined to the administration and jurisdiction of the church and did not extend to defining ‘ any article or point of the Christian faith and religion ’ . |
| 12 | Many people would claim that the role of science is confined to the first of these and that theoretical physics will have achieved its goal when we have obtained a complete set of local physical laws . |
| 13 | However , during the first Two Periods of the development of the Created God , the pleasures of life were confined to those of a purely physical nature and were born of the ruthless competition for life . |
| 14 | This has not prevented their use in Europe and North America , where in any case the risk of infection is confined to relatively small groups , such as medical personnel ; but it rules out widespread use where a vaccine is most needed , in the Third World . |
| 15 | Normally the sale of books is confined to the sale of fiction and factual books not directly related to any course of study . |
| 16 | A fifth Summer of Love be confined to a four-day binge in August . |
| 17 | Most of this form of DNA is confined to actively transcribed genes , where Rich speculates that it may function to keep an appropriate distance between successive molecules of RNA polymerase . |
| 18 | Commercially viable deposits of lignite were confined to the area around Lough Neagh in the early 1980s . |
| 19 | Flora , whose notions of acting were confined to the village nativity play , tugged in puzzlement at her sweaty chain stitch . |