Example sentences of "be reserved for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success was supposed to be reserved for those with silver spoons in their mouths . |
| 2 | It was argued above that it is unacceptable to claim that the mandatory penalty for murder supplies the raison d'être for the qualified defence of provocation : the label ‘ murder ’ should be reserved for the most heinous of killings , and there is a widely held belief that provoked killings are not in this group . |
| 3 | ‘ If murder is to be reserved for those homicides which are most deserving of stigma , this does not seem to be one of them . ’ |
| 4 | The label ‘ murder ’ , and the stigma thought to accompany it , should be reserved for the most heinous group of killings ; there is a well-recognized offence of manslaughter beneath murder , and this should be used for offences where the culpability is significantly lower . |
| 5 | There was to be no ‘ acting tough or noisy ill-discipline ’ ; toughness was to be reserved for the enemy . |
| 6 | Further formal monitoring should then be reserved for a defined mid-point and the trial end . |
| 7 | Pleasantries or other discourse can be reserved for later or dispensed with before starting . |
| 8 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 9 | As late as 1975 , an authoritative source stated , ‘ The first cardinal principle ’ ( in treating cancer of the breast ) ‘ is that hormonal therapy should be reserved for patients for whom surgical treatment or radiotherapy has been considered and deemed no longer of value ’ . |
| 10 | But our deepest fears should be reserved for everything that keeps us from becoming more human , more personal , or more spiritual . |
| 11 | The lane going east from the farm should be reserved for the return journey and the track heading south to Ease Gill preferred . |
| 12 | It was announced that supplies of oranges would be available from local shops from April 24th and be reserved for a period of five days at the rate of one lb. per head to children only . |
| 13 | Some time must be reserved for the applicant to ask questions . |
| 14 | This latter type of description specifies a typical role which a character plays in a scene , but the term role will be reserved for the role-filler notion discussed already , to avoid confusion . |
| 15 | Final ratification can be reserved for a satisfactory outcome of the debate . |
| 16 | These men were the ministeriales , originally unfree tenants ; as the nobility became increasingly independent , the ministeriales were promoted to fill their place in the royal service , and they received increasingly valuable patronage and endowment ; abbots of imperial monasteries were even forbidden to distribute fiefs to free tenants — they were to be reserved for the unfree , the ministeriales . |
| 17 | County courts could still , in spite of the 1869 Acts , commit small debtors to prison , on the principle that imprisonment was a penalty which should be reserved for what was in the nature of the crime . |
| 18 | Since the actual performance of the Decimax is so impressive , any misgivings will probably be reserved for the system 's hi-tech looks . |
| 19 | But moral indignation ought principally to be reserved for ourselves . |
| 20 | ‘ Bedrooms should be reserved for sleeping and not for work or an office or watching TV , ’ said Dr George Beaumont , an expert in sleeping disorders . |
| 21 | ‘ The only other thing it should be reserved for is sex , ’ |
| 22 | The title of Martyr , he declared , was ‘ an utter misnomer and should be reserved for those Christians who rather than renounce their faith had suffered death at the hands of Pagan persecutors ’ . |
| 23 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 24 | Secondly , you assert Sinead does not have ‘ courage and integrity ’ and then follow this up with an argument that these nouns should be reserved for Mother Theresa and fellow carers . |
| 25 | Half the positions will be reserved for scholars from Eastern Europe and former member states of the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | These greedy predators are seldom offered for sale these days and should be reserved for aquariums stocked with fish and mobile invertebrate forms only . |
| 27 | Babies also become human adults ; the significance of which will be reserved for the next section . |
| 28 | Each wing was to be of two storeys and providing two wards of twelve beds each with one of the ground floor wards to be reserved for mental cases and to have a padded room . |
| 29 | In these circumstances an election campaign was to be waged with the same zeal which would otherwise be reserved for a parliamentary election . |
| 30 | Auctioneers will still be required to buy a licensed auctioneer 's office at anything from FFr500,000 ( £51,000 ; $92,000 ) to FFr20 million ( £204,000 ; $368,000 ) , and that right will be reserved for persons but not firms , thus still excluding the likes of Sotheby 's and Christie 's . |