Example sentences of "confine to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Sheppard believes the task calls for accomplished generalists who know something of law , accounting , commercial practice , people management and administrative systems , without being confined to a narrow , specialist niche . |
| 2 | The blue-chip market is confined to a very limited number of names . |
| 3 | Richard Coles ( of The Communards ) has written an insipid score and Paul Heritage 's stilted direction is confined to a foursquare stage . |
| 4 | It was confined to a small border strip of 20,000 square miles and 1,500,000 inhabitants , encompassing Roslavl' and Smolensk , but excluding important districts centred on Vitebsk , Gomel , and Mogilev which were incorporated into the RSFSR . |
| 5 | Diana , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , hopes the boat will encourage more disabled people onto the water . |
| 6 | Diana Campbell , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies , and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it . |
| 7 | Although support for some of the liberal values is confined to a minority , it is a growing one . |
| 8 | His chapter on the post-1857 situation is confined to a charting exercise in which the context provided is often misleading ( married women 's participation in the labour market did not rise rapidly in the interwar years ) , and in which the facts are sometimes shaky ( not all working-class women were opposed to divorce in the early part of the century ; the Women 's Co-operative Guild gave evidence to the 1909 Royal Commission in favour of it ) . |
| 9 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |
| 10 | The conservative Blaize , who died of prostate cancer and had been confined to a wheelchair for the past year , lost his parliamentary majority five months ago but had clung to office despite opposition protests . |
| 11 | AUDREY Segal was a remarkable woman who overcame her disabilities — she was confined to a wheelchair for 23 years after contracting a virus in Morocco — to invent and develop careers education in this country , and to remain its foremost exponent for more than 20 years . |
| 12 | Replacements have been confined to a new head gasket around 3,000 hours and one each of pto and main clutches . |
| 13 | Our sex education was confined to a biology lab smelling of formaldehyde . |
| 14 | But on the plus side , there was only one channel , and the coverage was confined to a single 45-minute programme each night , called ‘ Telerevista ’ . |
| 15 | In a population confined to a particular habitat competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs . |
| 16 | A differential species is one which is strictly confined to a particular sub-community , and not found in others . |
| 17 | Undeterred however , it decided on a second offensive , this time confined to a search for a low-level waste dump where the material would be buried in shallow trenches . |
| 18 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 19 | At the time , Maurice Utrillo was confined to a lunatic asylum through his chronic alcoholism and Lunia and the Zborowskis went to visit him every day . |
| 20 | His gouverneur or chief guardian was General Frossard , but it was the wish of the Emperor and Empress that apart from obligatory public appearances , which were confined to a minimum , the child should grow up in a family atmosphere . |
| 21 | And as we have seen , retirement was then much less common , and confined to a restricted social minority . |
| 22 | Mid-point should be confined to a standards inspection reproducing that conducted pre-trial . |
| 23 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 24 | Her parents were told that Dawn had evidently suffered a stroke , and would probably recover to remain confined to a wheelchair . |
| 25 | She was still badly disabled , confined to a wheelchair , and unable to control her spasticity at all , even when she was sitting or lying down . |
| 26 | After about eight weeks he was discharged home , although he was still confined to a wheelchair . |
| 27 | She was discharged from hospital and went home , but was confined to a wheelchair , as she could not walk . |
| 28 | At the eight-celled stage the yellow cytoplasm is confined to a pair of adjacent cells . |
| 29 | Using sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments ( seismographs or seismometers ) , it is possible to pin down quite precisely the sites where the shock waves originate in this region , and it can easily be shown that these sites are confined to a narrow belt which dips steeply down under the continental margin at about 60 degrees , and which hits the surface just where the ocean is deepest , in the Chile-Peru Trench . |
| 30 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |