Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] way for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 2 | The company was forced to close its Redcar and Stockton shops and the Middlesbrough branches were demolished to make way for the Cleveland Centre . |
| 3 | The ruins of the medieval Berwick Castle were removed to make way for the station , and some of its stone was used in the construction of the bridge , though parts of it are of brick with stone facings . |
| 4 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 5 | The church took its name from that of an older church a little way off that was demolished to make way for the ramparts of the Porta Romana in 1532 . |
| 6 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 7 | How water was raised from the well can only be speculated but close to this spot stood an old Elizabethan house , which was demolished to make way for the flats . |