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"to be curbed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean to be restrained or controlled - usually in the sense of controlling one's behavior. For example: "Her outbursts of anger have been successfully curbed."
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Those imports are unlikely to be curbed.
Inflation had to be curbed.
Dogs are expected to be curbed.
"This needs to be curbed by an iron hand," he said, according to the Associated Press.
The planet was warming and greenhouse-gas emissions had to be curbed.
But they have conceded that those middle-class entitlements need to be curbed.
The scope and length of appeals against planning decisions is likely to be curbed.
Architectural ego and the will to make buildings as sculpture will have to be curbed.
There were calls this week for his office to be abolished, or at least for his powers to be curbed.
I would rather have a boy whose competitive instincts need to be curbed than one without competitive instincts at all.
This last is absolutely essential if backbench idleness, disillusionment and cynicism are to be curbed – and the executive controlled.
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