Example sentences of "[v-ing] way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Christy 's hitting a wood for his second shot and it was going way to the left . |
| 2 | Face despised face , the older ones moving in front of the younger ones , the weaker ones giving way to the stronger ones . |
| 3 | Oakland 's starting pitcher , Dave Stewart , recovered from a shaky start to allow just five hits over eight innings , before giving way to relief pitcher , Dennis Eckersley . |
| 4 | Mr de Klerk 's main criterion , as far as one can tell , in deciding who is released first is to attempt to minimise the chances of mass political gatherings giving way to violence and , the great nightmare , loss of government control . |
| 5 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 6 | But between political reform and economic crisis , even Hungary will think hard before giving way to emotion and sending its forces in to help the beleaguered Hungarian Romanians . |
| 7 | Green leaves festooned the window , green trees , green ground beyond , giving way to the blue . |
| 8 | These are two respects in which the reformed law would not achieve maximum certainty , and those who argue that the terms would ‘ cause little problem of interpretation ’ are surely giving way to unwarranted optimism . |
| 9 | ‘ Made of birchwood they were — this wood 's mostly oak and birch giving way to conifers as we come out , with a view of the foothills . ’ |
| 10 | Beyond the window , the rain ceased , giving way to sunshine . |
| 11 | All that strange ‘ beat ’ talk of the late fifties and the avant-garde personality of the earlier Sixties that had become the language of kids in the coffee bars and campuses throughout the English-speaking world , was giving way to a more cynical view of life and the much harsher realities of the rock ‘ n ’ roll years . |
| 12 | The sense conveyed here of transition , of one age giving way to another , of an approaching end , a decadence , an Untergang — veering violently in its emotional response between nonchalance and terrible fear — is in some ways more disturbing than the resolutely futuristic or science fiction settings of the very talented Stefano Benni , who has been compared , not without reason , to Vonnegut ( Tani 1986 : 134–8 ) , or the sub-human dystopia created by the Sienese poet Attilio Lolini in his only novel to date , Morte sospesa ( Suspended death 1987 ) , in which a man stumbles through the aftermath of what Loloni describes as ‘ an ordinary apocalypse ’ , trying to confess to a horrible and long-forgotten crime of which no one will believe him guilty . |
| 13 | Nails found his shock giving way to the shakes and the shakes to an immense compulsion to laugh . |
| 14 | The disappearance of the rhynchosaurs , like the decline of the synapsid dicynodonts before them , seems to be associated with a decline of their food-plant ; this time , of the seed fern Dicroidium , which was giving way to the worldwide spread of the conifers . |
| 15 | In the transition epoch , when one production structure is giving way to another , the midwife is revolutionary violence . |
| 16 | So the clarity and vibrancy bestowed by the immanence of the Life Force during a Sat yuga declines , giving way to ages of progressively lower consciousness , until we reach the Kal yuga , where we find ourselves today . |
| 17 | The whole nation now exceedingly alarmed by the French fleet braving our coast even to the very Thames mouth ; our fleet commanded by debauched young men , and likewise inferior in force , giving way to the enemy , to our exceeding reproach ; God of his mercy defend this poor … nation . |
| 18 | Midnight 's suppurating wounds gradually cleaned , but the intense sickness only slowly subsided , giving way to a low fever that sapped his strength and depressed his mind . |
| 19 | The early analogue systems are giving way to more powerful digital ones . |
| 20 | Echoes of those early themes and motifs weave in and out of ‘ II ’ like friendly ghosts , Oldfield again favouring mantra-like repetition , layer upon layer of instrumentation , building to crescendo and giving way to acoustic guitar in a grand reprise of the original . |
| 21 | The poem , which many sports people have adopted as a sort of anthem , also advises on ‘ keeping one 's head while all around are losing theirs ’ , of not giving way to hate or dealing in lies . |
| 22 | Certainly she seemed inclined to despise him for giving way to her . |
| 23 | With a wet spring giving way to brilliant dry weather many of the mountain crags have been receiving attention , both in terms of new routes and repeats of less frequented or unrepeated lines . |
| 24 | The old crew were giving way to younger , more ‘ professional ’ drivers . |
| 25 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 26 | In the last week of September , using the Left Book Club groups , he organized the distribution of two million copies of a leaflet explaining clearly and simply why peace could not be preserved by giving way to Hitler 's demands . |
| 27 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 28 | Yet when the final came around , frivolity — England sang ‘ Look on the bright side of life ’ in response to the ‘ Haka ’ — gave way to an enthralling forward battle with the All Blacks giving way to no-one . |
| 29 | ‘ Harvest Moon ’ is the scourging sound warrior of ‘ Weld ’ reborn as a light-fingered laureate , the decibel demonics giving way to hushed awe and thoughtful reminiscence . |
| 30 | The central idea of ethnomethodology is that the orderliness of social life is not the result of people obeying social norms or giving way to social pressures , but rather that orderliness is attained by all those involved working to achieve it . |