Example sentences of "within [art] [adj] confines " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , those who operated from within the comfy confines of the constitutional approach , froze the constitution when the set-up is never fixed . |
| 2 | The navigator ( Sgt. Alexander ) , in spite of being wedged within the narrow confines of the glass nose , managed to scramble out , and descended safely by parachute . |
| 3 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 4 | Stiff westerly winds made forward passage difficult , and the little boats had to tack this way and that within the narrow confines of the Strait 's exit , before the funnel began to widen and the open sea to present itself Magellan , now perfectly confident of his discovery , named the waters Estrecho do Todos los Santos — All Saints ' Strait . |
| 5 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |
| 6 | Trying to use bulky machines WITHIN the narrow confines of a trench was never easy . |
| 7 | Surreptitiously , her hand hidden within the furry confines of her muff , Anne made the sign of the cross . |
| 8 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 9 | In which case , it seems worth asking why I am considering them at all within the limited confines of this book . |
| 10 | It would be impossible to cover all areas of management practice within the limited confines of this project , but I hope to have covered all the important areas relevant to these manager 's particular jobs . |
| 11 | Like the Cortes , opened in 1943 , the Fuero de los Españoles was designed to give the appearance of a certain free-play but , in reality , always within the Procrustean confines of the Francoist system . |
| 12 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 13 | Learned perceptions and actions have to be within the overall confines of a creature 's mind structure . |
| 14 | In other words , it has been incorporated within the parochial confines of party-political polemic . |
| 15 | Christian people are often in this category , discussing issues that concern them within the trusted confines of their church fellowship or house group . |
| 16 | that of an instruction in the martial arts compatible with the maintenance of a prince 's peace ; that of an outlet for competitive instincts within the claustrophobic confines of a court ; and that of display to maintain princely social status . |
| 17 | The accounts in hand would seem to favour this alternative suggestion , whether within the narrower confines of school society and the rejection of school rules , or within the wider context of acting against the laws of British society as a whole . |
| 18 | On 24 June Dulles himself — within the secret confines of the American administration and at the height of Anglo-American differences at the Geneva conference — conceded that , in contrast to the unpopularity of the " tough " American anti-communist policies in the free world , " the British 'soft policy' was gaining prestige and acceptance both in Europe and in Asia " . |
| 19 | Joyce and Rourke spent their days looking noticeable within the boozy confines of The Haçienda . |
| 20 | Simenon never grew out of an adolescent attraction to crime , and he provides the reader with a vicarious opportunity to share his inverted moral code within the safe confines of a novel . |
| 21 | Like accoutred knights charging towards each other in a formal tournament , an argument carried out within the formal confines of opposing doctrines becomes simple power play . |
| 22 | So every garden , every orchard , every foot of open space within the old confines , was doled out piecemeal at exorbitant prices for building . |