Example sentences of "confine to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If copies of the previous accounts or report have been laid or delivered the revisions must be confined to the correction of those respects in which they did not comply with the Act and the making of any consequential alterations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sour tastes can be detected in all these areas , but bitter is confined to the back part and salt to the front . |
| 4 | Flora , whose notions of acting were confined to the village nativity play , tugged in puzzlement at her sweaty chain stitch . |
| 5 | ‘ The blaze was confined to the kitchen . |
| 6 | The intention of stirring hatred is not confined to the purpose of doing so . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 9 | The radial shields are large and contiguous or nearly so in spinea while they are quite small , usually separated and confined to the edge of the disk in hamula. 3 . |
| 10 | Turkey 's insistence that the refugees should be confined to the border region influenced the USA and its allies in their adoption of the " safe haven " proposal — an idea of which Özal had been one of the earliest proponents [ see p. 38127 ] . |
| 11 | Though they were confined to the hut by day and the cell by night they soon knew far too much about the camp . |
| 12 | STRIVING to be better and more distinctive is not confined to the workplace for Francisco Fabrö Riera . |
| 13 | Bouge De La are not confined to the theatre . |
| 14 | The fundamental point to be grasped is that the inhabitants of a curved space can determine its curvature from intrinsic measurements , i.e. from measurements confined to the space itself . |
| 15 | While they still maintain feminist art history should raise ‘ fundamental questions for art history as a humanist discipline ’ , they do not believe feminist art history should be confined to the documentation of women artists ( as a form of additive history ) . |
| 16 | The taste buds are confined to the tip , the sides and the back of the tongue only . |
| 17 | For this reason and for reasons of space , the discussion here will be confined to the way in which the coins themselves can be used to reveal information about their date or mint . |
| 18 | WIS claims all this activity was n't confined to the PC market . |
| 19 | In one randomised controlled trial of radical surgery 111 of 142 patients with cancer confined to the prostate were followed up for 15 years . |
| 20 | Branson 's increasing celebrity , albeit still confined to the music industry , had become a selling point in itself . |
| 21 | The Art of Ancient Mexico , the catalogue of the exhibition recently held at the Hayward Gallery ( closed 6 December 1992 ) is confined to the art of Mexico and the Mayan empire . |
| 22 | Therefore , exchange rate uncertainty is confined to the exchange rates of the union currency against the currencies of the countries outside the union . |
| 23 | If curve B applies then the erasure could have been largely confined to the lull between formation and the subsequent peak in bombardment , possibly extending into that bombardment . |
| 24 | The industrial landscape is not confined to the north of England and the west Midlands . |
| 25 | Poverty and deprivation are by no means confined to the North . |
| 26 | Labour , in contrast , is becoming a party confined to the North of England , Scotland , and the urban areas , especially the inner cities . |
| 27 | You would be confined to the building , naturally , and you would have to live in the cells , but it would probably save your life . ’ |
| 28 | For HE such forecasts have been confined to the university sector as data are not available for the public sector . |
| 29 | At one time confined to the south and east of the country , the stock dove spread as arable farming expanded in the 19th century ; but the introduction of organo-chlorine seed dressings in the 1960s was a disaster . |
| 30 | But one-party dominance of State legislatures was not confined to the South , as Ranney 's ( 1971 ) classification ( figure 5.12 ) indicates . |