Example sentences of "[noun pl] were confined to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solon divided the citizen body into four classes on the basis of wealth or property ownership , and while most important political offices were confined to the higher of these classes , the lowest class were entitled to attend the Assembly or Ecclesia , and to make up the juries who decided both on guilt and innocence and on sentences in the courts . |
| 2 | MNR officials disputed the government side 's assertion that all Zimbabwean troops were confined to the immediate area of the Beira and Limpopo corridors , a key provision of the Dec. 1 Rome agreement [ see p. 37909 ] . |
| 3 | For the next three centuries there was no further trouble within the Province of Britannia , and all the military problems were confined to the northern frontier , except that in the late second century the Brigantes seem to have been in a state of unrest , but the historical reference is far from clear . |
| 4 | Argument before the House of Lords in B's appeal and the judgments were confined to the certified question . |
| 5 | It was they whose immediate vision was one of attempting to escape from the grind of poverty , and whose children were confined to the lowest levels of education offered in the elementary schools and the secondary , or ‘ post-Hadow ’ , schools . |