Example sentences of "it give way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third and most lengthy phase of the operation to save the tower will involve pumping water into the land at strategic points ‘ to make it give way to the north ’ . |
| 2 | She heard it give way and then plunge into the water . |
| 3 | In recent months they have even hinted at getting the Russians — who supply much of Ukraine 's oil dirt-cheap — to raise economic barriers that would force it to give way . |
| 4 | Alsace is the only stronghold for the grape outside its native Germany , but its fashionable blandness is causing it to give way to Pinot Blanc . |
| 5 | It gave way beneath her , she fell and then rolled helplessly down the aisle . |
| 6 | I did resent her quite a lot for what she did but it gave way after a few months . |
| 7 | This contained a variety of animals — fowl and sixty-three unspecified small birds — but before it could be served the platform supporting it gave way and the pie slipped to the ground . |
| 8 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 9 | Soon the mask of mob rule and anarchy was replaced by the naked face of despotism , and eventually it gave way to Napoleon 's personal image of collectivism : an imperial militarism . |
| 10 | It gave way under his weight . |
| 11 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 12 | However , it remains an open question whether the dust continues beyond about 100 metres , becoming fully compacted rock at 10 to 20 km , or whether it gives way to broken rock somewhere not far beyond 100 metres depth . |
| 13 | It gives way and almost unseats him . |
| 14 | Although community care year one is meant to be ‘ steady state ’ , there are bound to be plenty of bumps along the way before it gives way to the managerially more predictable , through financially harsher , 1994–5 . |