Example sentences of "confined to [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England any road leading to a port or a market was a royal road , and this indicates that royal interest was not confined to providing roads for the movement and provision of royal armies , but was concerned with trade and markets . |
| 2 | At a local level , Gloucester 's changes were largely confined to filling gaps left by the removal of the Woodvilles . |
| 3 | At a local level , Gloucester 's changes were largely confined to filling gaps left by the removal of the Woodvilles . |
| 4 | If it chooses an independent valuer , then there is a separate contract between the valuer and the borrower , the society 's obligation being confined to using care in the selection of the valuer . |
| 5 | Moreover , this was a new form of imprisonment whose aims were not confined to con-taining offenders for a period and deterring the populace from crime . |
| 6 | As is pointed out by Clark , ‘ there is no doubt that writing long courses is time consuming ’ and the participation of the librarian ‘ should be confined to teaching library skills ’ , leaving the programmer and educational technologist to work out the coding of the material . |
| 7 | The savings are not just confined to sharing overheads like accommodation , services and phone system . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It does not require that contests be pairwise , and is not confined to fighting behaviour ; it has been applied to the evolution of the sex ratio , of dispersal , of growth strategies in plants , and so on . |
| 10 | Convenient : Distribution should not be confined to making materials available in the general area of use . |
| 11 | The question is : are we by definition confined to making changes to the curriculum on a purely individual basis to ensure that the teaching individual children receive is appropriate to their needs ? |
| 12 | Soviet spokesmen claim that American ambitions in the 1980s are not confined to cultivating relations of ‘ alignment ’ on a bilateral basis . |
| 13 | Of all the agencies , only the Manpower Services Commission has had the control of the purse strings that allows positive steering ; with the exception of educational support and in-service training grants administered by the DES , the other agencies ' role has been confined to offering advice and expertise . |
| 14 | The conductor 's earliest origins , though , were humble , his duties confined to banging time loudly with a stick — a sort of dull musical beadle . |