Example sentences of "[noun] confine [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
| 2 | It was decided in Att. -Gen. for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher that the House need not in all circumstances confine itself to the certified question . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Nowadays , Stevenson confines himself to the ( occasional ) early morning run and , more frequently , riding his horse . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The vast majority of cross-national case studies confine themselves to a narrow range of countries : United States , Japan , Scandinavia , France , West Germany , Italy and the United Kingdom ; and to a lesser extent , Canada and the smaller northern and central European countries ( notably Holland and Austria ) . |
| 7 | Had separatism confined itself to a political context , then however violent the discussion , its impact and effects would not have been a fraction of what they are . |
| 8 | Chapter 7.3 examines the colonial impact upon agriculture , and this example confines itself to a very brief exploration of the colonial experience . |
| 9 | Since Cox confined herself to the truly great , her sample — unlike , say , Ellis ' and Bowerman 's — naturally contained the names of many individuals whom others have quoted as evidence for the connection between creativity and psychosis ; including , incidentally , one ( Cowper ) who appears in this book . |
| 10 | The newspapers confined themselves to the show itself . |
| 11 | In his farewell remarks at Speech Day , the Headmaster confined himself to the past 25 years , comparing 1937 — when there were six Old Stopfordians at Oxford and two at Cambridge — with the present , when there were 22 and 15 respectively . |
| 12 | Nor does the book confine itself to a run-down of the different massage strokes ; it also ventures in to the territory of relaxation tips , body awareness exercises and meditation techniques to instill a sense of calm . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |