Example sentences of "be confine to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Given that the harmonizing measure is to be confined to international transactions , what test is to be applied to determine internationality ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The discussion will be confined to rational-deductive strategic and economic analysis . |
| 7 | Even if its efficacy proves to be confined to symptomatic behaviour , and not cognitive improvements , this may well provide knock-on benefits in other treatment areas . |
| 8 | At the same time , the new law provides that the previously free distribution of textbooks to all students be confined to needy students only . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Like most previously published research in this area , attention will be confined to primary school children aged between five and ten years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This need not be confined to salaried partners as such , but could be extended to all ; for example , introducing a salary scale based on age and experience comparable with Civil Service pay at its administrative grades with an equal division of surplus profits . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Words in category ( 2 ) seem to be confined to black speakers , though this remains at this stage an untested observation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Access to the system is nearly always indirect and therefore slow , and likely to be confined to certain times because of a need to load the payroll or manpower tapes within the computer centre . |
| 18 | Purchases may also be confined to certain maturity bands as below : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If there was no offside , games would be confined to packed goalmouths and creative football disappear . |
| 21 | This internal dialogue will not be confined to technical questions framed within the discipline . |
| 22 | This use seems to be confined to British English . |
| 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 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 25 | Criticism and debate are to be welcomed , however , and should not be confined to academic circles . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 81% want breeding to be confined to registered organisations and breeders . |
| 28 | In the immediate future , the biological synthesis of specific products is likely to be confined to bacterial cultures under strictly controlled conditions . |
| 29 | Membership should therefore be confined to non-executive directors . |
| 30 | So far as concerns professional regulation , the Law Society requires that the membership of each such company be confined to qualified solicitors , retired partners and the dependents of retired or deceased partners . |