Example sentences of "be confined to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noah 's Flood had been confined to the Middle East . |
| 2 | Study of these various components of psychoticism as found in normal people has not been confined to the superficial level of observable traits , measured by questionnaires . |
| 3 | But the corporation is ‘ delighted ’ that the government has recognised its claim for an extra VHF network for Radio I , which since 1967 has largely been confined to the medium wave band . |
| 4 | Drawing on a notion of autonomy which originates with Kant , and which is developed in the writings of Hegel and Marx , Assiter extends this notion and criticises the way in which it has been confined to the public sphere . |
| 5 | The weakness in understanding of geomorphic processes ( and hence also a weakness in the understanding of the origin of landforms ) has not been confined to the American continent . |
| 6 | At the present time most of the alterations affecting the spit are confined to the southern end , where it is weakest . |
| 7 | ‘ I was mistaken in thinking that false confessions are confined to the Soviet bloc . |
| 8 | My own misgivings are confined to the sobering thought that I would have so little to offer , either in products or services . |
| 9 | In zebrafish ( for mouse , see ref. 26 ) , transcripts of engrailed genes are confined to the posterior midbrain and the presumptive cerebellum at 14h of development ( Fig. 4 f ) . |
| 10 | The choline-containing phospholipids make up the major fraction of the lipid exposed at the cell surface , while the negatively charged phospholipids are confined to the cytoplasmic surface of the bilayer . |
| 11 | It has long been recognised , however , that international comparisons of industrial relations which are confined to the national level may produce misleading results because of the possible dominance of one or more particular industries within a given country . |
| 12 | About the number of authors who write that ‘ the Champagne vineyards are confined to the belemnite-rich chalk and that the lower beds , where belemnites are lacking , produce inferior grapes which are never used for Champagne ’ , he comments : ‘ They infer that the Campanian has some special but undefined property which makes it superior for vine-growing . |
| 13 | The mosaics in S. Apollinare are confined to the triumphal arch and the apse ( PLATE 31 ) . |
| 14 | It remains the case in this country that safer-sex adverts which use pornographic imagery are largely produced by gay organisations and are confined to the gay press . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , assuming a practical drilling depth limit of around 6 km , which is also about the greatest depth at which economic gas could reasonably be expected to survive even assuming conservative palaeogeothermal gradients ( as discussed later ) , it is clear that exploration is likely to be confined to the hanging wall of the thrust system for all except a narrow zone adjacent to the Variscan Front . |
| 16 | Valuable mathematical experiences need not be confined to the well-ordered water trough , and the sensitive adult can find many ways of introducing new vocabulary and mathematical ideas during the children 's play . |
| 17 | It may be in Page 8 the form C : \dir1\file1 or if the search is to be confined to the current disk it may be simplified to \dir1\file1 . |
| 18 | A major argument put forward against surrogacy is ‘ that to introduce a third party into the process of procreation which should be confined to the loving partnership between two people , is an attack on the value of the marital relationship ’ . |
| 19 | I am an enthusiastic Darwinian , but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene . |
| 20 | Technology itself , and its effective use , is not to be confined to the traditional science subjects . |
| 21 | And it was all about er , Now that th we 're nationalized railway nationalized , it meant that we could er gain promotion and we would n't be confined to the one section . |
| 22 | Operations will then be confined to the English-speaking world — Canada , the UK and Australia . |
| 23 | The amount attributed to non-equity interests is not to be confined to the nominal value of the shares , but should reflect the full consideration received , together with any accrued premium for redemption . |
| 24 | This means that at whatever level the stresses or insults initially attack the system , the effects , if the body is strong enough , will be confined to the physical plane . |
| 25 | We argue strongly that practice in writing should not be confined to the literary essay . |
| 26 | It need not be confined to the written word — symbols such as the swastika , and other offensive images will suffice . |
| 27 | It is interesting to note that the human gastric tumour cell line HGT-1 , which was derived from a primary tumour originating in an non-antral part of the stomach , had histamine 2 receptor which responded , maximally to much higher histamine concentrations of 10 - 3 to 10 - 4 M. Cells from the duodenum did not possess the histamine 2 receptor and in this study it was shown that two colorectal tumour cell lines did not seem to possess histamine 2 receptor indicating location of histamine 2 receptor may be confined to the gastric area . |
| 28 | There has always been a temptation to regard the successive recommitments to the central political purpose of the Community as being confined to the small print , to be accepted only through gritted teeth and only on our terms . |
| 29 | It has the unique distinction among school magazines of being confined to the closed case of the British Library . |
| 30 | That influence , far from being confined to the former graveyard of St Giles ' , has spread and is spreading in every corner of the world . |