Example sentences of "are confined to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time most of the alterations affecting the spit are confined to the southern end , where it is weakest . |
| 2 | They are confined to the warm waters of the Indo-Pacific region but are absent altogether from the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 3 | ‘ I was mistaken in thinking that false confessions are confined to the Soviet bloc . |
| 4 | My own misgivings are confined to the sobering thought that I would have so little to offer , either in products or services . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By and large , the soil-dwelling enemies of the rose are confined to the several kinds of chafer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The mosaics in S. Apollinare are confined to the triumphal arch and the apse ( PLATE 31 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Until those dates , customers below the thresholds are confined to the published tariffs , based on the old legal obligation imposed on the suppliers to offer the same terms to all comers . |
| 13 | Spinelets are confined to the radial shields in G. arcticus and more closely resemble large granules . |
| 14 | G. caputmedusae differs from G. arcticus ( Fig. 8 ) as follows : the arms are densely covered in granules which are absent or sparse in G. arcticus ; in G. arcticus the granules or low spinelets are confined to the radial shields with a very sparse scattering of smaller granules interradially . |
| 15 | ( 6 ) Tender offer advertisements are confined to the strict terms of the offer and certain factual statements permitted by SAR 4 . |