Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] reserved for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two rooms and a telephone were reserved for the CAB and , with a list of appointments prepared by the company , clients were called over the tannoy system to avoid queues . |
| 2 | Most consternation was reserved for the prospect that the Japanese will probably get there first . |
| 3 | In Miletos , for instance , the central area was reserved for the agora , which was an open-air meeting place for the transaction of business , comprising a market place , stoas and commercial halls . |
| 4 | The usual critique was reserved for the evening , in view of the common abstraction . |
| 5 | He lived quietly in half his old house , he sometimes went to visit friends in other parts of the country , and occasionally to London , where he stayed in the Dorchester Hotel and was asked to luncheon by Churchill , whose venom was reserved for the index of his book . |
| 6 | The Pallatine School was reserved for the teaching of the law , rhetoric , medicine and mathematics . |
| 7 | Then she turned back to Dane , effectively ending the audience , and for the rest of the trip her conversation was reserved for the driver alone . |