Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] confined to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 All non-managerial personnel belong to the same union , but the privilege of membership is confined to regular workers .
2 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 .
3 Consensus was of a rather passive kind and policy tended to rely on very general financial guidelines operated by the Bank of England and the Treasury ; financial aid to industry was confined to regional development aid .
4 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 .
5 In future the duties of the clerk should be regulated by the Council on Tribunals being confined to secretarial work , the taking of notes of evidence , and advice on the functions of the tribunal .
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