Example sentences of "[noun] were reserved for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | **An additional 13 Chamber seats were reserved for ethnic minorities , making an overall total of 341 seats . |
2 | In addition 84 seats in the expanded 250-member Assembly were reserved for independent candidates . |
3 | Occasionally entire houses were made of mudbrick , but usually the ground floors were stone and the mudbricks were reserved for upper floors and partition walls ( Plate 8 ) . |
4 | * Two of the 90 seats in the Chamber were reserved for non-elected representatives of the Hungarian and Italian minorities . |
5 | I should say also that I take some comfort from noticing that the judgments were reserved for five months . |
6 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
7 | In ‘ Partnership ’ , again local authority-owned land was made available for private development , but the new dwellings were reserved for 12 weeks at a stipulated price for purchasers falling into a restricted set of categories of which the most important were first-time buyers on the housing waiting list and households from slum-cleared areas . |