Example sentences of "[vb past] way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | JIM MOODIE powered hid way to a winning TT double on the Isle of Man yesterday . |
| 2 | The internal politics of Surrealism were complicated by rivalries and ideological disputes ; in the case of André Breton 's association with Dali , his earlier support gave way to a denunciation of the artist , who was expelled from the group . |
| 3 | The summer , which was a glorious one that year , gave way to a gusty autumn , and , as is the way with these things , after the autumn came the winter . |
| 4 | Mk2 first–class open vehicles , like that shown here , gave way to the Mk3 build , and glass jars of Cooper 's Oxford Marmalade to plastic portion-sized containers . |
| 5 | Residual traffic was routed via Peterborough and this closure reflected the vastly changing freight scene as vacuum-braked freights gave way to air-braked company or block trains , precluding the necessity to marshal en route . |
| 6 | Lewis gave way to Fraser , and Azharuddin brought up a great hundred , and 1,000 for the match , with an easy clip for three . |
| 7 | Fortune duly gave way to forfeit ; the cars were sold , the duck marsh was turned into a bird sanctuary and the only tigers left in Bharatpur are stuffed . |
| 8 | As the land rose , the rectangular paddy fields gave way to thin terraces that carved the valley into steps ; here and there an irrigated paddy glistened in a green crescent . |
| 9 | THE RULING body of the Conservative Party yesterday gave way to rank-and-file pressure and moved a step nearer to sanctioning official party candidates in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 11 | Puzzlement gave way to bravado and a new found delight in catching the ketchup artistes at it . |
| 12 | In the eighteenth century this model gave way to another based on absolute differences of kind : |
| 13 | A biology of hierarchy grounded in a metaphysically prior ‘ great chain of being ’ gave way to a biology of incommensurability in which the relationship of men to women , like that of apples to oranges , was not given as one of equality or inequality but rather as a difference whose meaning required interpretation and struggle . |
| 14 | The sky was turning several shades of blue as night gave way to day . |
| 15 | It was a thick , misty day , but when the two brothers got beyond the small market town of Thame , the fog gave way to bright sunshine . |
| 16 | Corks first popped in ancient Greece and Rome , but then gave way to more primitive stoppers . |
| 17 | The tough treatment of childhood Carol Reed had offered in The Fallen Idol gave way to feyness in A Kid for Two Farthings ( 1955 ) while Robert Hamer , expelled from Ealing , shifted from the controlled savagery in Kind Hearts and Coronets via the eccentric Father Brown ( 1954 , The Detective in US ) to such routine comedy assignments as To Paris with Love ( 1954 ) and School for Scoundrels ( 1959 ) . |
| 18 | But over the years enthusiasm gave way to mere tolerance . |
| 19 | But even the morbid gave way to humour . |
| 20 | Firmness gave way to nonchalance again and this time it was positively throw-away . |
| 21 | When Charles echoed the name uncomprehendingly , the CO 's frown gave way to his own special indication of relish which was n't quite a smile , more a contraction of the upper lip . |
| 22 | The peonies on the wall faded and gave way to a thick , wooded hillside . |
| 23 | The earth thickened and made different sounds underfoot as ash gave way to elm . |
| 24 | Far away across the varied greens and browns the wood-jagged horizon gave way to the faint blue hump of the Malvern Hills . |
| 25 | The euphoria of the summer gradually gave way to the pessimistic feeling that it might after all be a long war . |
| 26 | The historical ruler , who might or might not have made disastrous political mistakes , gave way to the woman who might or might not have written the Casket Letters ; and scholars plunged into the absorbing task of deciding whether letters whose originals had not been seen since 1584 , and whose texts had been translated from French into Scots and then back into French , were forgeries or not . |
| 27 | The great political bonds , which — for all the associated chicanery — did articulate political groupings and attitudes based on considerations of foreign policy and religious belief , gave way to bonds motivated by reactions to the personal behaviour of the monarch . |
| 28 | Arran gave way to the persuasions of his half-brother , the abbot of Paisley , and to the ascendant Beaton faction . |
| 29 | The anger and astonishment in her face gave way to something very like pity . |
| 30 | That carefully planned emphasis on diversity , however , gave way to a more consistent Austro-German bias when the promised Ravel was replaced by some meaty , exultantly played , but dramatically awkward cuts from Wagner 's Gotterdammerung , leaving Corigliano as the daring odd man out . |