Example sentences of "[is] confined to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In criticizing the conflict thesis , we noted that a misleading sketch of opposition to science can be traced if the sample is confined to religious extremists . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind ’ is confined to mechanical functioning of the brain . |
| 3 | All non-managerial personnel belong to the same union , but the privilege of membership is confined to regular workers . |
| 4 | The system model is confined to specific descriptions of fault , symptom and action relationships . |
| 5 | To avoid confusion in this connection , it is worth stressing that while the stylistics of embellishment is also concerned with the relationship between the language and content of texts , the relationship there is confined to general questions of tone . |
| 6 | The Convention is confined to international transactions , the Directive prescribes minimum rights and duties for parties to domestic transactions . |
| 7 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 8 | The community is confined to inaccessible cliffs or sides of ravines where grazing and burning are unlikely , but where trees can not grow . |
| 9 | Our quantified investigations ( for example , J. Milroy , 1984 ) , however , have repeatedly demonstrated that the only environments that show a consistent front-raising pattern are these velar environments ; thus , while it affects the whole phoneme /ae/ in conservative RP , it is confined to velar environments for most Belfast speakers . |
| 10 | The first day is confined to national classes , all sponsored by Guinesss Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | We must not imagine that such information is confined to large businesses . |
| 12 | [ … ] However , this does not imply that transaction specificity is confined to physical durable assets : human investment in individual or team knowledge that is not fully transferable is also transaction specific . |
| 13 | If the problem is confined to bald patches in small areas , a smooth price of silver paper may be all that 's needed . |
| 14 | A more extreme view , but one not without its attractions , is that in the modern law trespass to goods is confined to intentional interference and that negligent interference is remediable only by the tort of negligence . |
| 15 | Dialogue or soliloquy come first : action is confined to minor stage directions concerning gesture or the kind of movements called , by biologists , displacement activity . |
| 16 | The general approach of UCTA 1977 relating to contractual liability is confined to contractual terms and it is , therefore , desirable that instructions and labels should be regarded as terms if they are to be controlled by UCTA 1977 . |
| 17 | The process is confined to low-viscosity magmas , such as basalts , in which the crystals are able to separate from the active thermal boundary layer during convection . |
| 18 | So long as it is confined to strict military targets — roads , bridges , supply depots , gun emplacements — bombing need not alienate either public opinion in the West or the ordinary Serbs who must help change the minds of their stubborn , self-styled leaders . |
| 19 | Arabella , the heroine , is remarkably gifted , yet her reading is confined to French romances . |
| 20 | But the offence is confined to sexual intercourse . |