Example sentences of "[verb] way [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would also bind an eventually merged Germany , which the Soviet Union recognises might be born when Nato and the Warsaw Pact give way to a new European security system . |
| 2 | This would also bind an eventually merged Germany , which the Soviet Union recognises might be born when Nato and the Warsaw Pact give way to a new European security system . |
| 3 | Coconut and banana trees quickly give way to a dim still forest . |
| 4 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |
| 5 | The large numbers of new aircraft entering service made it obvious that ‘ on-squadron ’ conversion would have to give way to a proper Operational Conversion Unit ( OCU ) and so in the latter part of 1951 , 231 OCU was formed at RAF Bassingbourn , a place that became with the Canberra . |
| 6 | On Jan. 2 , 1993 ( the date on which the civilian administration was to have been inaugurated ) the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) would be dissolved and replaced by a National Defence and Security Council ; the present Council of Ministers would also cease to exist , giving way to a civilian Transitional Council with the responsibility of overseeing the final stages of the transition . |
| 7 | Late in October 1951 Labour gave way to a Churchill-led Conservative government . |
| 8 | If this social ascendancy depended on land it was reinforced by the widespread rebuilding of country seats in the eighteenth century and the reordering of the ornamental parks which surrounded them ; the symmetrical English formality of the grander Tudor houses and gardens gave way to a new Italianate classicism which combined with an image of the countryside often quite distinct from the comparative agricultural disorder which remained outside the pales of their civilised owners . |
| 9 | The Weimar system of Communists , Social Democrats , liberals , Catholic Centre and conservative parties gave way to a broad two-party system , such as already existed in Britain , with the FDP running a poor third . |
| 10 | It is true that the first of the pair begins like the piece on p.88 , with a figured Trommelbass accompaniment , but this soon gives way to a rising broken triad in semiquaver triplets which dominates from then on . |
| 11 | The morning 's rain had given way to a lush golden evening . |
| 12 | The clear , blue water of the river mouth had given way to a brown muddy flow as the ship moved inland , and both banks were now lined with natural stockades of tall , fleshy-leaved trees that trailed tangled creepers over the water . |
| 13 | Make way for a poor blind man . ’ |
| 14 | There is a plan to clear the site to make way for a spanking new conference centre . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I went back to see it , first in a state of dereliction , then half-demolished to make way for a private housing-state development . |
| 17 | They stood aside to make way for a blind Indian youth in a parka who was confidently striding down the way with his cane held out before him . |