Example sentences of "[be] confine to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 2 | He was a pioneer in establishing circulating libraries in country districts ; earlier , they had been confined to major towns and watering-places . |
| 3 | For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges , fines and probation orders . |
| 4 | Schemes which had been confined to industrial workers before the war were typically extended to include the self-employed , farm workers and domestic servants . |
| 5 | But after the sack of Athens by Sulla and the destruction of the Seleucid state by Pompey the taste for the quiet contemplation of world history which Posidonius encouraged must have been confined to provincial corners like Rhodes itself , or Agyrium , the Sicilian birthplace of Diodorus . |
| 6 | Of course the influence of Buchanan has not been confined to Western Europe . |
| 7 | So far , apart from his basic research in black burnished wares ( 1973 ) , his work has been confined to peripheral aspects such as imported amphorae ( 1971 ) and the Malvernian wares ( 1968a and 1968b ) which may be important for future work on the major salt extraction at Droitwich . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hospital studies on asthma attacks have concentrated on specific groups of patients ( adults or children ) or have been confined to specific geographical areas . |
| 10 | Our examples have been confined to simple homophonic chords in which all the notes sound together . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The map , drawn up by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , highlights waters off up to 10 per cent of the British coast that could be designated as special areas for conservation under the directive , but so far discussion of the sites has been confined to marine scientists within the British statutory nature conservation bodies . |
| 13 | She left Alexandra in no doubt that whatever services Carlo might have performed on Gina 's behalf , they had not been confined to public relations but had included private ones as well . |
| 14 | However , it seems increasingly to have been confined to Indian peasants exploited by non-Indian landlords . |
| 15 | About seventy-three per cent of the island is covered by glaciers , ice-caps or barren lava fields , and man 's attempts at cultivating and utilising the land are confined to low-lying deltas or river valleys near the sea . |
| 16 | Tapirs formerly inhabited Europe , Asia and North America ; modern day tapirs are confined to Central and South America and Malaysia . |
| 17 | However , there are intrinsic properties of any curved space which enable beings confined to that space ( as we are confined to three-space dimensions ) to detect and measure that curvature . |
| 18 | Thus craft unions in pure form are confined to apprentice-served skilled workers and are intended to protect and promote a marketable skill . |
| 19 | Confirming the mood of gaiety , passing modulations are confined to sharp keys . |
| 20 | Apart from harmonizing measures formulated for the purpose of establishing a common market , whose regulators will have a keen interest in acts in one member State that can produce effects in others , most harmonization instruments dealing with contracts are confined to international transactions . |
| 21 | Today most of the remaining fragments are confined to sheltered gorges or inaccessible crags or to some islands in inland lochs , the latter often displaying a wind-contoured profile . |
| 22 | The possibility therefore exists that there are specific T cell epitopes within the adenovirus 12 E1b protein — A-gliadin sequence homology that are confined to coeliac toxic prolamins . |
| 23 | The types of water-dispensing systems currently recognised in the United Kingdom for the protection of high-racked storages are confined to ceiling-mounted and in-rack mounted sprinkler systems using ‘ closed ’ sprinklers i.e. sealed and individually actuated by the fire . |
| 24 | It is difficult to assess whether Kollwitz intended to reach any particular market with a specific work because the bulk of information concerning her motives are confined to autobiographical writings . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Given that the harmonizing measure is to be confined to international transactions , what test is to be applied to determine internationality ? |
| 27 | Truth can not be confined to traditional religions , nor can any particular religion claim to have a monopoly of Truth , for where that kind of particularization of the Ultimate takes place , we are face to face with what Tillich calls demonization . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The discussion will be confined to rational-deductive strategic and economic analysis . |