Example sentences of "[vb mod] be confined to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Criminal Law Revision Committee 's conviction that both rape and incest should be confined to vaginal penetration by the penis , has precluded any discussion in its Report of gender neutrality in either context .
2 Some felt a shudder at the thought of tackling the sense of humour of the Prophet Muhammad and the holy imams of Islam , and counselled that the subject matter should be confined to modern times .
3 Next comes the question whether the harmonizing measure should be confined to international transactions or should apply also to domestic transactions and , if the former , what tests of internationality should be applied .
4 Once it is conceded that there are grounds other than eugenic ones for a separate offence of incest , then the question which inevitably arises is why the crime should be confined to sexual intercourse .
5 Despite all this , however , both committees took the view that incest should be confined to sexual intercourse on the ground that the case for extending the offence had not been made out .
6 Alternatively , the volume of data can be restricted by selecting a specific archaeological period or group of periods — the study might be confined to prehistoric archaeology world-wide , for example .
7 The British argued that the Soviets should be given no reason to think that an East–West war could be confined to Central and Western Europe .
8 There may be no crust on the far side , and even on the near side it may be confined to certain regions , such as beneath the maria , though the majority view is that the Moon does have a global crust .
9 Obviously this was no problem to the American buyers who were out in force and I wondered whether within fifty years all the antiques in Britain would end up in America and we would be confined to department-store replicas .
10 If there was no offside , games would be confined to packed goalmouths and creative football disappear .
11 The discussion will be confined to rational-deductive strategic and economic analysis .
12 The discussion here will be confined to self-interested goals ; consideration of ‘ socially responsible ’ motives will be deferred until Chapter 9 , which will conclude that sacrificing profits for socially responsible ends does not occur on a scale sufficient to raise serious doubts about the commitment of managers to profitability ( or whatever other , self-interested goals may predominate ) .
13 Like most previously published research in this area , attention will be confined to primary school children aged between five and ten years .
14 And at this stage it is expected that tagging will be confined to specified types and not involve the routine identification of all sheep — including hill ewes — as many farmers feared .
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