Example sentences of "confine himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does not confine himself to ‘ organs of extreme perfection ’ , but also describes , as he believes , maladaptive overdevelopments ( Irish elk ) , nonadaptive organs , useless incipient stages . |
| 2 | Baldwin did not confine himself to Rothermere : |
| 3 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 4 | He should confine himself to the questions put to him . |
| 5 | He plans to stay in Sheffield to compete on the first day of the UK Championships today then concentrate on training , his Olympic place assured without having to jump in the trials in Birmingham on June 27–28 , in which he 'll confine himself to an outing in the 100 metres . |
| 6 | Owen also does not confine himself to writing only one type of poem but uses many different kinds so to appeal to more people . |
| 7 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 8 | The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture . |
| 9 | In 1827 Sewell , in his introductory lecture , said he would not , in his lectures on surgery , confine himself to the horse . |
| 10 | Nor did Boswell the North Briton confine himself to political toadying to London , as he swung from compliments to conveyed slights : ‘ [ Mr Boyd ] entertained us with great civility . |
| 11 | It indicates that he is not content to confine himself to the small island of his own tradition and culture and consequently not recognize the significance of the spiritual insights of other religious traditions . |
| 12 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |
| 13 | In examining my own background it seems logical to refer to the findings of Selvini Palazzoli and Minuchin on the families of anorexics , but whereas Minuchin especially confines himself to the family ambience at the time of the onset of the disease , I should like to say a little more about the genesis of that family ambience . |
| 14 | What Karlsson proposes essentially is that the genes responsible for the disposition to schizophrenia ( he confines himself to this form of psychosis ) also code for creative ability . |
| 15 | The town itself is peculiarly built , so that a person may live in it for years , and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people 's quarter or even with workers , that is , so long as he confines himself to his business or pleasure walks . |
| 16 | Whereas a junior does both advocacy and the preliminary paper work , a leader confines himself to advocacy ( apart from the giving of oral and written opinions , an activity common to both grades ) , |
| 17 | October in which he confines himself to saying : ’ I believe that the Scottish interests will be dealt with appropriately . ’ |
| 18 | The plaintiff 's accountant Mr confines himself to quantifying the heads of loss and does n't speak with reference to the er allegations that are made in any way . |
| 19 | Nowadays , Stevenson confines himself to the ( occasional ) early morning run and , more frequently , riding his horse . |
| 20 | He took no further part in party politics , confining himself to local bodies : he was a magistrate and served on the Shropshire county council from 1923 to 1934 . |
| 21 | Apparently , the guru had played little part in the proceedings , confining himself to putting records on the gramophone ; and this , for Eliot , seemed to render him the more sinister . |
| 22 | However , he did so without conceding a share in his legitimacy to the Resistance inside France and without confining himself to the role of the Resistance 's leader . |
| 23 | But confining himself to Newcastle he lists a depressing role call of both the mediocre and the plain ugly . |
| 24 | Confining himself to Scotland 's priorities , the national coach expressed relief at having gained an initial win at Malta 's expense and admiration for the manner of that achievement . |
| 25 | Gerard confined himself to documentaries and it was while making a 90-minute update on South Africa , Back On The Frontier , for ITV in 1986 , that he became fired up to press ahead again single-mindedly with the feature . |
| 26 | His sympathies lay with the independents such as Henderson and Nixon ( who at one point in the 1930s constituted , in the absence of the nationalists , the official opposition at Stormont ) , but the Unionists had not yet shown the degree of liberalism they were to show under O'Neill in the 1960s and Paisley confined himself to promoting various ‘ ginger group ’ enterprises on the margins of politics . |
| 27 | For the moment he therefore confined himself to a tour of the streets , even though popular clamour made it clear what was wanted , for few cried ‘ Vive la République ’ . |
| 28 | Harris did all the preliminary research and visited the secular buildings , Pevsner confined himself to churches and medieval domestic buildings . |
| 29 | He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred . |
| 30 | 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 . |