Sentence examples for restrictive from high-quality English sources.

• Non-restrictive clauses – “which”, comma (both essential).

• They argue that the term is both too vague and too restrictive.

• Ordinarily, the conjunction “that” would introduce a restrictive clause.

• Idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is rare, and its natural history is not well known.

• Restrictive covenant, in Anglo-American property law, an agreement limiting the use of property.

• Negative covenants that restrict the uses of a parcel of the land are called restrictive covenants.

• Costume designers need to know how to make costumes lighter and less restrictive to enable performers to move freely.

• It was not until 1950 that the FHA announced that it would not insure mortgages on properties with restrictive covenants.

Use restrictive in a sentence.

• In the three examples, “which John built”, “which I read every day” and “which I grew from seed” are all non-restrictive.

• A week before her death, she was moved to a restrictive housing unit as punishment for her role in a fight, officials said.

• restrictive cardiomyopathy, with disease onset at 10 years old, is described.

• In the conservation law problem, the restrictive method described in Section 2.1 is the only method that minimizes mind changes.

• The report came in for immediate criticism, both for being too restrictive, and for not being restrictive enough.

• Women on both sides of the aisle have long used their personal experiences with pregnancy to support or oppose restrictive abortion laws.

• Wanting a cheat day can also be a “reflection of a very restrictive and unenjoyable diet”, says Emma Randall, a mindful eating consultant.

• Sometimes an even more restrictive notion of “Arrovian social choice” is used to name works which faithfully adopt Arrow's particular axioms.

restrictive sentence examples

• Despite Argentina’s restrictive rule, nearly a half-million abortions a year take place there, say campaigners for less restrictive laws.

• A word about relative clauses: restrictive relative clauses (also known as defining, best thought of as giving essential information by narrowing it down) are not enclosed by commas, whereas non-restrictive relative clauses (non-defining, giving non-essential information) are.

• But Dr Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of Dutch organisation Women on Waves, which provides family planning services on a ship just outside the jurisdiction of countries with restrictive abortion laws, said the problem was that Britain’s own abortion regulations were too restrictive.

• The report found that abortions occur as frequently in the two most restrictive categories of countries – such as Malta, where it is banned outright, or Ireland, where it is allowed only to save the woman’s life – as it does in the least restrictive category, where it is allowed no matter what the reason.