Example sentences of "confine itself to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planning sub-committee of Buckinghamshire county council , which meets on Monday to consider the scheme , must inevitably confine itself to the planning application before it , and the planning issues arising from it . |
| 2 | As Maitland , who was a contemporary of Dicey , recognized , one repercussion of the consequent growth in the quantity and complexity of government business was that there was ‘ a tendency … on the part of parliament to confine itself to the work of legislation , of framing general rules of law , and of entrusting the power of dealing with particular cases to the king 's ministers , to boards of commissioners , to courts of law ’ . |
| 3 | If in doubt about what to do next , keep yourself busy by going around and changing all the name plates : in a move scarcely calculated to do much to restore battered confidence in the company , IBM Corp 's shrunken Cadam Inc , the Burbank , California company that now confines itself to the microcomputer versions of the computer-aided design software , has changed its name to Altium , effective immediately : it says the Altium name is part of its plan to secure the unit 's position in the desktop market and ‘ a part of the larger renewal ’ of IBM . |
| 4 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 5 | After one attack at Kharg , the Iraq News Agency announced the terminal 's destruction ; this was widely reported , although a later report confined itself to the installation 's T-jetty on the eastern side of the island . |
| 6 | Not many years ago , it seemed that almost all readability research , and almost all research in linguistics confined itself to the analysis of units no larger than a sentence . |