Example sentences of "restrict [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say .
2 For now we will restrict ourselves to data on decision making and publication times .
3 Father said " We 'll restrict ourselves to speech and writing .
4 For his part the president , as he tries to get the cooperation he needs , will not restrict himself to offering inducements .
5 It will purchase the total range of care needed by local people with mental disorder and , meanwhile , the NHS will restrict itself to providing a psychiatric service for these individuals in whichever setting is most appropriate .
6 NATO will now restrict itself to only one nuclear system , as opposed to the Soviet Union — or Russia now — with three , and we in NATO can point to the fact that we will soon have about one tenth the number of nuclear warheads that we had 10 years ago .
7 Can I restrict myself to low stocking levels — resisting temptation ?
8 Althusser denies the need for a more detailed account on the grounds that ‘ As the formal structure of all ideology is always the same , I shall restrict myself to a single example , one accessible to everyone , that of religious ideology , with the proviso that the same demonstration can be produced for ethical , legal , political , aesthetic ideology , etc . ’
9 In the present chapter , I will restrict myself to a simple summary of Kuhn 's views .
10 I will restrict myself to these questions , though there are many more I would like to ask .
11 I do n't restrict myself at all .
12 First , if specific librarians and information scientists are unable or unwilling ( or both ) to learn about and understand the detailed situations within which the information that they handle will eventually be used , then they should restrict themselves to the more general situation-independent value-adding processes .
13 People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time .
14 The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories .
15 Many will restrict themselves to such magazines and periodicals in which their chosen authors made significant appearances .
16 This difference , as we have seen , is between two kinds of causal explanation , and if both can have some force , as Miller believes , it is not obvious why social scientists should restrict themselves to only one of them .
17 Both the alternative development possibilities suggested appear to be attractive , but you need n't restrict yourself to them alone .
18 Do not restrict yourself to the punchcards supplied with the machine .
19 Do n't restrict yourself to local services , the postal service is better outside London and most will offer Special Delivery or Red Star if you need it .
20 Of course , you may prefer to choose outside alliances rather than restrict yourself to the family , but in times of hardship the family may be more dependable .
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