Example sentences of "confine themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of this group 18% have confined themselves to one sexual partner ; 10% have had more than 20 ; half have had between 2 and 9 ; 7% pare unable to make a reliable estimate . |
| 2 | Thus the early engineers were constrained by the lack of ‘ signal to noise ratio ’ and ‘ sensitivity ’ to confine themselves to loud subject matter which could take place about one inch from the mouthpiece . |
| 3 | Women who engaged in charitable work tended to confine themselves to particular activities ; principally fund raising , and visiting the homes of the poor and institutions . |
| 4 | His quarrel with the TUC was about the narrow vision that Millar thought they applied to education , confining themselves to practical day-to-day union matters and ignoring socialist principles . |
| 5 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 6 | Newspapers which confined themselves to demonstrable facts , and left readers to draw their own conclusions , were not sued . |
| 7 | In Paris he found that the lecturers did not as in Edinburgh confine themselves to one hour , but generally took an hour and a half or two hours ; but he found his time there very valuable . |
| 8 | Given the need for an extensive approach within the limitations noted above , and given that the first stage of the fieldwork demonstrated that heroin users generally confine themselves to specific networks , it was decided to use a ‘ network analysis ’ approach using the technique of snowball sampling , or chain referral ( Fraser and Hawkins 1984 , p. 82 ) . |
| 9 | Into our own time , many architectural historians confine themselves to that subject ; it has moreover continued to have a nostalgic appeal to novelists . |