Example sentences of "would be confine to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would be confined to the building , naturally , and you would have to live in the cells , but it would probably save your life . ’ |
| 2 | I ruled that they would be confined to the Promenade and Fleetwood line ’ . |
| 3 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 4 | Calculations based on this assumption , however , indicated that any uplift would be confined to the region over which stretching occurs and that no uplift at all would occur if the thickness of the crust were less than about 20 per cent of the thickness of the lithosphere . |
| 5 | I hoped the exploration would go well and that the cancer would be confined to the kidney I had already rather sadly signed away . |
| 6 | On the basis of certain assumptions about the chemical heterogeneity of the mantle and a postulated marked increase in viscosity with depth , it has been argued that convection would be confined to the asthenosphere , that is to a maximum depth of about 300 km ( Fig. 2.1 7(A) ) . |