Example sentences of "be confined to " in BNC.
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| 1 | KEITH RAMSEY 'S match-winning shot for Manchester Giants in the 105-104 victory over Sunderland 76ers on Tuesday night made him the toast of the Stretford Sports Centre , particularly as all of their supporters had been confined to the bar . |
| 2 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 3 | Away from the race track , however , composites have been confined to the specialist manufacturer , with the major car makers playing a waiting game . |
| 4 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |
| 5 | The conservative Blaize , who died of prostate cancer and had been confined to a wheelchair for the past year , lost his parliamentary majority five months ago but had clung to office despite opposition protests . |
| 6 | Replacements have been confined to a new head gasket around 3,000 hours and one each of pto and main clutches . |
| 7 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 8 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 9 | In Essex , the District would have been confined to provision in Colchester , Chelmsford , Clacton , Halstead , Braintree and Maldon . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 12 | The movement towards organic production has not been confined to fruit and vegetables . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The effect has been to deny the right of employers to a proper say in the educational process because their interest has been confined to recruitment after the event rather than as participants in provision . |
| 15 | On 18 February 1791 Granville Penn ( chairman ) supported by Rev Mr Cook , John Gretton , William Stone , Edward Topham and Huntingford , received information from Vial ( who had been confined to bed with a cold and fever , and had been unable to meet the committee 's delegation ) that he supported the amalgamation of the two plans , and that he would consult his patrons and subscribers accordingly . |
| 16 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 17 | But the corporation is ‘ delighted ’ that the government has recognised its claim for an extra VHF network for Radio I , which since 1967 has largely been confined to the medium wave band . |
| 18 | So far this has been confined to states with lifetimes longer than about one millisecond ( ’ isomeric ’ states ) but experiments are under way to study excited slates in nuclei with lifetimes as short as microseconds . |
| 19 | Moreover , this was not one of those results that had been confined to his private papers , but it had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 20 | Hitherto , provision of adult deaf organisations had largely been confined to church services and other pastoral services , but in 1871 , a most important step was taken with the founding of Glasgow Deaf and Dumb Football Club , the first sports dub for the deaf in this country . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | THE news that Peter Cranmer after having long been confined to a wheelchair , has had both legs amputated in Brighton General Hospital will sadden all who recall with admiration that famous sporting figure of the 1930s . |
| 23 | Of course the influence of Buchanan has not been confined to Western Europe . |
| 24 | Perhaps Mrs Longhill had already written during the days Ruth had been confined to bed . |
| 25 | His limited activities to date had been confined to an uncommitted setting-up operation . |
| 26 | As anyone who has ever been confined to a closed institution will know , meals are events : they are the landmarks in each repetitive day , often providing the only elements of novelty or surprise in an otherwise predictable routine . |
| 27 | Player-manager Roy McDonough , who has been confined to bed with flu for the past couple of days , is happy with the likes of Robert Hopkins , Steve McGavin , Gary Bennett , Paul Abrahams and himself from which to choose as the U's bid to launch a late bid for the end of season play-off phase . |
| 28 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 29 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 30 | Study of these various components of psychoticism as found in normal people has not been confined to the superficial level of observable traits , measured by questionnaires . |