Example sentences of "[verb] make way for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 2 | The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases . |
| 3 | A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage . |
| 4 | So Oxford 's Lord Mayor was the first to wield the demolition hammer to help make way for a new business park . |
| 5 | Once the church had a beautiful Gothic façade , but during renovation work on the Palazzo Reale in 1770 this was demolished to make way for a new main staircase . |
| 6 | At the time , part of the mill was demolished to make way for a new road , some of the remainder being converted to shops . |
| 7 | The old terraced houses are being demolished to make way for a new shopping centre . |
| 8 | According to press reports , during the meeting Hariri had successfully allayed Hezbollah fears that a large number of buildings in the southern suburbs were to be demolished to make way for a new hospital . |
| 9 | This had to be demolished to make way for the new library complex and it was impossible to find alternative accommodation for all the books stored there . |
| 10 | The State Paper Office was architecturally the most interesting building to be demolished to make way for the present Foreign Office . |
| 11 | Despite the vast size of their houses and the numerous servants surrounding each aristocratic family , on the death of a Victorian head of household ‘ his or her resident family was expected to leave to make way for the incoming heir and his or her family . |
| 12 | The houses will be for people who have to move out of Bentham Drive to make way for a new rail link . |
| 13 | On July 7 the small Hural had been disbanded to make way for the Great Hural to act as the country 's new single-chamber legislative body . |
| 14 | Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station . |
| 15 | He will open a new school hall and plant two oaks to replace trees lost to make way for the new development . |
| 16 | By this time the tiny west wing of the villa had been removed to make way for a gigantic conservatory , which has since disappeared . |
| 17 | Only a decade ago , an area called Poletown in inner-city Detroit — a diverse , thriving place cluttered with shops , churches and small manufacturing — was destroyed to make way for a giant car plant offering 4,000 jobs . |
| 18 | Tropical forests are also destroyed to make way for the hydro-electric plants to smelt bauxite — used in aluminum cans . |
| 19 | One of South-East Asia 's richest botanical areas , the slopes of Mount Apo on the Philippine island of Mindanao , is to be cleared to make way for a geothermal power plant . |
| 20 | Germans love a touch of ‘ Kultur ’ and those of Nuremberg are no exception — even the market square is occasionally cleared to make way for a huge stage . |
| 21 | It was to have been compulsorily purchased to make way for the final stage of the inner ring road until that scheme was dropped . |