Example sentences of "be confined to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the other end of the spectrum , some countries have hardly any professional archaeologists , and even these may be confined to looking after museum collections . |
| 3 | Convenient : Distribution should not be confined to making materials available in the general area of use . |
| 4 | If these were the only considerations , merger policy might be confined to ensuring that companies formed accurate assessments of the costs and benefits of mergers . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has gone to the Distributed Computing Solutions arm of General Atomics Inc , San Diego for its UniTree file and storage management software ‘ for use and distribution on the entire line of IBM computers , ’ although it seems likely that it will be confined to running under Unix for now . |
| 6 | 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 . |