Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her early surge soon gave way to predictable ring-rust after five years off the professional circuit . |
| 2 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 3 | THE RULING body of the Conservative Party yesterday gave way to rank-and-file pressure and moved a step nearer to sanctioning official party candidates in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | It is worth noting that the Woolf report also drew attention to those management problems , as has the director of the prison service , Mr. Joe Pilling . |
| 5 | At first it was filled with gases that modern organisms would find highly toxic , such as ammonia and possibly hydrogen cyanide — though these are the gases that probably gave rise to organic life . |
| 6 | It also probably gave rise to considerable north-westerly directed overthrusting in the Highland area , including the great Moine Thrust itself . |
| 7 | In many areas local services were provided by numerous different authorities , which often gave rise to acute co-ordination problems . |
| 8 | Although , apart from lapis lazuli , supplies of all these were available in Egypt and Sinai , Egyptian craftsmen often had recourse to coloured glass to infill cloisonné cells . |
| 9 | Sobhuza , however , possessed political skills in abundance and he cunningly blended appeal to tribal custom with a capacity to manage economic and social change for his kingdom without weakening his autocratic power base . |
| 10 | One can be confident that those responsible for such productions sometimes had access to valuable oral and written information which no longer survives . |
| 11 | Fortunately , none of this means that their work can simply be tossed overboard , for two examples should suffice to prove the contention that writers subsequent to Cnut 's day sometimes had access to important evidence . |
| 12 | It therefore governed access to all fishing at sea , including fishing for stocks not subject to quotas . |