Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GREEN demonstrators wept yesterday as trees were torn down to make way for a giant Tesco 's . |
| 2 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |
| 3 | The suppliers lost count of the ancient oaks , not to mention the chestnut and cherry trees , cut down to provide panelling for the two grand offices reserved for the couple , but also for hundreds of function rooms and apparatchiks ' offices . |
| 4 | A Washington initiative hurriedly pushed through to undermine support for the campesino organizations , the project was conceived as part of a wider counter-insurgency programme . |
| 5 | Shortly after returning to Etosha , Ian Hofmeyr was killed when his catching truck , pulling over to make way for a lorry on a park track , rolled onto its side in an irrigation ditch . |
| 6 | He says back in 1963 the trough was due to be broken up to make way for a path . |
| 7 | In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park . |
| 8 | If you are going to speak in them , slow down to allow time for the sound to travel . |
| 9 | In his speech he said , ‘ May I suggest to you and your Council that you have the debate I suggested about the economic and environmental factors and then set out to provide leadership for the industry in reconciling these items . ’ |
| 10 | In May 1890 , the minutes state that ‘ the old Saloon Shed having been pulled down to make room for the new Paint Shop , a shed is required for the three shunt engines ’ . |
| 11 | The church was closed for repair and restoration during the years 1887–8–9 , when the old ruinous south chapel was pulled down to make room for the present commodious aisles , the reason for this being the increase in population due to industrialisation in the village . |
| 12 | Following the death of TOTO drummer Jeff Porcaro , a memorial fund has been set up to raise money for the Grant High School Music Department , where Porcaro and Toto members Steve Lukather and David Paich attended . |
| 13 | It is now clear that the earthen bank had been cut back to make way for a stone wall , resting on cobbled foundations up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) wide , but unfortunately no precise dating evidence for its construction was recovered . |
| 14 | The houses remained until the early 1950s when they were knocked down to make way for the new church . |
| 15 | The Hadjerai suspected that Habre 's Gorane people had murdered the Hadjerai leader Idriss Miskine in 1984 , and that ( prior to the April 1989 coup attempt-see p. 36581 ) the Hadjerai in government were being forced out to make way for a Gorane-Zaghawa alliance ; an apparent instance of this was the arrest in June 1988 of Public Works minister Moussa Khadam and three others . |
| 16 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 17 | The virgin forest which is hacked down to make way for the cattle is virtually free , and when the soil is exhausted the ranchers just move on to another plot . |
| 18 | The first five items here had to be held over to make space for the 1990 Social List in the March issue … |
| 19 | The cells of our skin are constantly dying and being replaced , the old ones have to be sloughed off to make space for the new . |