Example sentences of "[verb] to make way for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the time , part of the mill was demolished to make way for a new road , some of the remainder being converted to shops . |
| 4 | The old terraced houses are being demolished to make way for a new shopping centre . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The houses will be for people who have to move out of Bentham Drive to make way for a new rail link . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By this time the tiny west wing of the villa had been removed to make way for a gigantic conservatory , which has since disappeared . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |