Example sentences of "[adv] reserve for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most easily dyed materials are wool and silk ; cotton and linen are difficult as they are made primarily of cellulose , being obtained from plants , rather than animal protein , and are better reserved for the time when experience has been obtained with dyeing wool . |
| 2 | The new legislation made it possible for all South Africans to purchase freehold tenure to the 87 per cent of South Africa 's land hitherto reserved for the white minority , although it placed no obligation on white owners to sell , and commentators pointed out that few blacks had the means to buy . |
| 3 | The statement that ‘ the parties that contended in turn for domination regarded the possession of this huge state edifice as the principal spoils of the victor ’ is nowhere more true than in the immediate pre- and post-colonial competition among indigenous interests for the administrative positions hitherto reserved for the imperialists . |
| 4 | Prosecution is thus reserved for the cases in which some unfair advantage has been taken of the girl , particularly where the girl is under 13 ( when lack of proper understanding is assumed ) , where the man is considerably older than the girl , where the man held some position of trust in relation to the girl , and where there is some element of deception involved . |
| 5 | By the age of ten he had taken to dreamily wandering around areas of Stretford and Hulme not normally reserved for the vision of one so young . |
| 6 | So , too , was the success of John Churchill , Earl of Marlborough , whom Anne in December 1702 created a Duke , an almost unprecedented honour normally reserved for the sovereign 's sons , a promotion which he rapidly justified by a series of brilliant victories , from Blenheim in August 1704 to Malplaquet in September 1709 . |
| 7 | This procedure is normally reserved for the more important examples of delegated legislation , particularly those with financial implications ( in which case , the affirmation of the House of Commons will be sought ) . |
| 8 | It is significant that in the light of Roland Barthes 's S/Z ( 1970 ) , critics would subject even Balzac to the kind of analysis usually reserved for the more oppositional novels produced by the nouveau roman ( see Jefferson 1983 ) : poststructuralist and deconstructive readings could transform the ‘ readerly ’ into the ‘ writerly ’ . |
| 9 | It is fairly safe to say that ‘ vellum ’ is now usually reserved for the finer types . |
| 10 | Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars . |
| 11 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 12 | There would still be a bit of clublife here and there through the alleyways , and the all-night gambling schools in Chinatown , though those were usually reserved for the Oriental abacus-for-brains fanatic . |
| 13 | GE welders , for instance , won permission to select and order the machines they use — purchasing decisions once reserved for the company 's white-collared engineers . |
| 14 | Gold and silver , once reserved for the service of cults and sovereigns , were displayed as plate by corporations like the City of London , the Inns of Court the City Companies ( fig. 40 ) or the colleges of Oxford or Cambridge and embodied as medals awarded by academies and other institutions for distinguished contributions to many fields of learning and professional activities ( Plate K ) . |
| 15 | The method to be used is to copy the highlighted block to another file specially reserved for the purpose , then count the words and display the result in a simple message box . |
| 16 | ‘ There is now no sort of work in the home strictly reserved for the wives , ’ Young concluded . |
| 17 | Even with the fame of Dom Pérignon in the seventeenth century the name Champagne was strictly reserved for the still wines , although the slightly pétillant wines were also included . |
| 18 | So , pangenesis could have been derived from the 1838 position , by pandynamic extension to the ova of powers previously denied to them , and by a panovulational extension to all other parts of powers and matters formerly reserved for the ovary . |
| 19 | On an official two-day visit to the United Kingdom on Nov. 9-10 , Yeltsin addressed both houses of Parliament , an occasion formerly reserved for the heads of Western countries . |
| 20 | ‘ The honour is customarily reserved for the wife of the king 's eldest son , ’ observed the dowager-duchess . |
| 21 | In the health-conscious '90s such sumptuous flavours are now reserved for the all-too-brief moment of self-indulgence that is typical of Christmas . |
| 22 | The sharp tongue is now reserved for the consciousness-raising rap session she gives at American universities , where students are allowed to ask whatever they like about her life , her sexuality , her views of the world , provided they can cope with the answers . |
| 23 | It was invented by the Tibetan lamas and was originally reserved for the use of the elite corps of bodyguards that protected the emperor of China . |
| 24 | ‘ Periodical ’ may be regarded as almost synonymous , but seems to be increasingly reserved for the more literary types . |
| 25 | Places in those schools are by no means exclusively reserved for the offspring of the devout , but the churches might have reconsidered that policy if the Government had , in effect , continued to place a block on their expansion plans . |
| 26 | In the RAF eggs were mostly reserved for the air crew 's after-ops breakfasts and this we fully understood . |
| 27 | The recent greening of the world means that the first clover of summer is greeted with an enthusiasm previously reserved for the cuckoo . |
| 28 | Even if cross-border mergers become a matter for Brussels - which might be expected to take a larger , continent-wide view — rather than national authorities , defence is specifically reserved for the attention of member governments . |
| 29 | Similarly , there is a form of the first person pronoun specifically reserved for the use of the Japanese Emperor ( Fillmore , 1971b : 6 ) . |