Example sentences of "[noun sg] was confine to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its one recommendation was confined to this area : |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the involvement of the students in the whole school development programme was confined to these interviews . |
| 3 | At first , his research was confined to the cosmetic uses of essential oils , but he soon realised that many of these oils had powerful antiseptic properties as well . |
| 4 | The study was confined to the North-East , but this had the advantage of providing the authors with a large number of Far Eastern companies , reputedly the highest concentration of Japanese firms in the country . |
| 5 | The study was confined to white men . |
| 6 | Tait yawned into a white hand , the well-disguised yawn of a man whose only knowledge of torture was confined to that inflicted by sitting through committees . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | BrdUrd labelling was confined to the superficial zone of human gastric crypts ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 9 | It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas . |
| 10 | I suppose also the that the slang term was confined to the esoteric vocabulary of sailors for a hundred years , until the rise of the boffins in World War II brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 11 | Fortunately , the church was in very sound structural order — only one small area of dry rot was found in the course of the conversion — and restoration work was confined to the replacement of several crumbling gable coping stones and related ‘ kneelers ’ , together with wire-brushing of some small areas of stonework where this was necessary . |
| 12 | So , in deference to the body-coloured front spoiler and natty factory-fitted mudflaps , rough-road work was confined to tracks . |
| 13 | After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps . |
| 14 | In 1924 and 1925 field work was confined to the Midland Valley in order to finish sheets which had been partly surveyed during coalfield work . |
| 15 | Marr shared these views but held more affinity with the American market of the same era , the Byrds , Martha Reeves and James Brown , Andy Rourke 's listening was confined to Joni Mitchell , Dylan and Neil Young while Mike Joyce was still firmly stuck in The Undertones side of showbiz punk . |
| 16 | ‘ As far as I know , my son 's personal acquaintance with Wyvis Hall was confined to my uncle 's lifetime when 1 , my wife and son and daughter frequently stayed with him . |
| 17 | The 1973 Act was confined to exemption clauses which claimed to exclude or restrict the statutory implied terms relating to title , description , quality and sample ( implied by sections 12–15 of the Sale of Goods Act ) . |
| 18 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 19 | ( In fact the Council was confined to England and Wales and did not exist in Scotland . ) |
| 20 | Part-time farming was confined to smallholdings on the outskirts of villages with the smallholders being employed in neighbouring towns as teachers , lecturers , etc . |
| 21 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 22 | If ergonomics was confined to , say , the determination of the physical dimensions of the work-space then it would be more readily accepted by traditional designers , but the broad claim that ergonomics has a contribution to make to every design and operational aspect which involves the behaviour of people is a proposition which it is much more difficult for an engineer or other designer to digest ( fig. 1.3 ) . |
| 23 | This protective effect of ursodeoxycholic acid was confined to patients aged 50 or less . |
| 24 | The initiative was confined to a small circle — Churchill , Eden and the Chiefs of Staff — and I described the episode in The Times , after the 1952 papers had reached the Public Record Office in January 1983 , as ‘ one of the best kept secrets in the 1950s ’ . |
| 25 | Intervention was confined to abolishing the Health Services Board set up by Labour to regulate private sector growth , stopping the phasing out of pay beds and allowing consultants on full-time health service contracts to earn up to 10 per cent of their NHS salaries from private practice without any salary deduction . |
| 26 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 27 | Their operation in regular service was confined to the Marton route , after the conversion to buses of Layton and Central Drive in 1936 . |
| 28 | They concluded that : ( i ) severe pollution was confined to 400 km of the Saudi coastline south of Kuwait ; ( ii ) that most of the oil in the spills had been digested by microbes ; and iii ) that sea-bed levels of cancer-causing chemicals produced by burning oil were no higher than those found in estuaries in the United Kingdom and USA . |
| 29 | Our sex education was confined to a biology lab smelling of formaldehyde . |
| 30 | … we attended at the School on Monday the 17th [ July , 1833 ] and found that it was divided into six classes , the first being composed of three boys only whose study was the Classics , the second of about 20 who were instructed in the Latin Grammar , and the remaining four classes were composed of boys whose education was confined to Reading , Writing , Arithmetic , and English Grammar , in which instruction the boys in the two senior classes also participated . " |