Example sentences of "to be confined to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The floor patterns ceased to be confined to the curved , angled or straight lines decreed by the older rules which proposed that certain geometrical figures had great significance . |
| 3 | Her sister , Khieu Ponnary , is married to Pol Pot , and was influential in the 1975 government , but is now understood to be confined to hospital because of mental illness . |
| 4 | The house longhorn beetle is another insect pest which seems to be confined to parts of Hampshire and south-west Surrey . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has been argued ( 12 ) that the use of arable land for livestock production is wasteful and this activity ought to be confined to the ‘ upland ’ areas . |
| 7 | It is sometimes suggested not only that postmodernism scarcely exists in Britain , but that it would not be a good thing if it did : like structuralism , it is seen as a form of literary rabies , to be confined to the Continent for as long as possible . |
| 8 | 81% want breeding to be confined to registered organisations and breeders . |
| 9 | I am an enthusiastic Darwinian , but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene . |
| 10 | It may be that a gene 's effects , as a matter of fact , turn out to be confined to the succession of bodies in which the gene sits . |
| 11 | Technology itself , and its effective use , is not to be confined to the traditional science subjects . |
| 12 | However , although these initiatives are welcome , they tend to be confined to ‘ non-standard ’ forms of employment and lower-paid jobs in the service sector . |
| 13 | But it was by no means to be confined to labourers since the emphasis on being adaptable was an implicit recognition of the importance of the mental factor inherent in all forms of labour , and one which was deemed to be of increasing relevance under ‘ modern conditions ’ . |
| 14 | They were to be confined to a moral order that suited the exhortations of the urban middle class . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , assuming a practical drilling depth limit of around 6 km , which is also about the greatest depth at which economic gas could reasonably be expected to survive even assuming conservative palaeogeothermal gradients ( as discussed later ) , it is clear that exploration is likely to be confined to the hanging wall of the thrust system for all except a narrow zone adjacent to the Variscan Front . |
| 16 | So Cedric 's precious irises had to be confined to a corral for safety , and a great deal of thought had to go into making the grounds of the priory into the fine and eccentric garden it is today . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |
| 19 | The amount attributed to non-equity interests is not to be confined to the nominal value of the shares , but should reflect the full consideration received , together with any accrued premium for redemption . |
| 20 | Fortunately our evaluation of Marxism does not have to be confined to the writings of Marx and Marxists . |
| 21 | Dreaming does not seem to be confined to our own species : research on the subject would appear to indicate that animals likewise have dreams : we have all seen a sleeping dog twitch as it ‘ chases rabbits ’ . |
| 22 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |
| 23 | Because AIDS was initially seen to be confined to particular groups , some countries which associated drug-taking and homosexuality with deviant or criminal behaviour took punitive measures . |
| 24 | When the party was over , all but the very young , who had to be confined to their cages for the night , would find their way back into the forest . |
| 25 | During my visit , the Pannier appeared to be confined to Haworth Yard while the locomotive combinations on the two service trains were constantly changing — there was always a double-headed service throughout the day . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Thus the role of TCR- α expression seems to be confined to further differentiation to the SP stage . |
| 28 | Various outcomes have been examined in randomised controlled trials of intrapartum fetal monitoring ; the only complication to show a lower ( and largely consistent ) decrease in the monitored groups was neonatal convulsion , and this protective effect seemed to be confined to prolonged , induced , or augmented labours . |
| 29 | The whole escarpment is several kilometres long , but so far development seems to be confined to a group of crags at its right-hand side . |
| 30 | Given that the harmonizing measure is to be confined to international transactions , what test is to be applied to determine internationality ? |