Example sentences of "[noun pl] reserve for the " in BNC.

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1 Even so , such crowds gathered that in parts of Lower Bavaria and the upper Palatinate halls reserved for the ceremonies were overfilled and had to be closed off by the police .
2 The suppliers lost count of the ancient oaks , not to mention the chestnut and cherry trees , cut down to provide panelling for the two grand offices reserved for the couple , but also for hundreds of function rooms and apparatchiks ' offices .
3 Moreover , Whitechapel neighboured on to Spitalfields , whose centre housed what was known as the ‘ black stuff ’ industry , the manufacture of the rich and expensive silks and velvets reserved for the exclusive use of the funerary trade .
4 There were 328 ( rather than 387 ) elected seats in the Chamber of Deputies , plus seats reserved for the smaller national minorities ( i.e. not the Hungarians ) whose candidates got an aggregate of at least 1,327 votes .
5 Places reserved for the burial of cremated remains were not likely to be filled for many years — if ever .
6 Soon the great awards of knighthoods give way to the decorations reserved for the civil and military services , and the shuffle of office workers is broken only by the occasional clink of a cavalryman 's spur .
7 Kings and queens travelled regularly by train and all the big city stations in monarchies boasted lavishly appointed suites reserved for the sovereign .
8 She said : ‘ I think Darlington council could make some extra money by wheel-clamping cars which park illegally in spaces reserved for the disabled . ’
9 The floors and walls of the apartments reserved for the Oba of Benin were completely paved with imported shells .
10 They had already renounced the more savage brutalities which less refined times reserved for the particular distinction of fraud and knavery .
11 We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats .
12 But the Government had already done a deal giving the Welsh nationalists , Plaid Cymru , a guaranteed place and were determined to keep two others reserved for the main parties , Labour and the Tories .
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