Example sentences of "[noun] have to give way " in BNC.

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1 Efficiency of operations has to give way to inventiveness and creativity .
2 But chemistry has to give way to physics .
3 It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice .
4 His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way .
5 In the Soviet Union the emphasis on ‘ socialist legality ’ meant that the interests of particular individuals had to give way to the interests of society as a whole as interpreted by the party and government .
6 There is always a point in every case where direct evidence has to give way to circumstantial evidence .
7 Already one can see the old ‘ paternalism ’ of the industry with its hierarchies and job guarantees having to give way to different business practices which take greater account of technical exigencies .
8 3 The act not only created a situation in which the House of Lords had to give way to the House of Commons , but in providing for the " representation of the people " it admitted a new principle of linkage between the state and society .
9 He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist .
10 In competition with lucrative private sector offers , however , the Treasury 's approach had to give way to pragmatic concessions to attract able men .
11 Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . )
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