Example sentences of "make way for a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protest campaign was sparked by a council decision earlier this year to fell the trees — 10 beech , one scots pine and one yew — to make way for a road improvement scheme said to be needed for a new supermarket . |
| 2 | It is now clear that the earthen bank had been cut back to make way for a stone wall , resting on cobbled foundations up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) wide , but unfortunately no precise dating evidence for its construction was recovered . |
| 3 | The Hadjerai suspected that Habre 's Gorane people had murdered the Hadjerai leader Idriss Miskine in 1984 , and that ( prior to the April 1989 coup attempt-see p. 36581 ) the Hadjerai in government were being forced out to make way for a Gorane-Zaghawa alliance ; an apparent instance of this was the arrest in June 1988 of Public Works minister Moussa Khadam and three others . |
| 4 | However he argued that ancient woodlands were still under threat from new planting and new road developments — for example the proposed destruction of Oxleas Wood in south east London , to make way for a Thames crossing . |
| 5 | Five years ago the Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre had to leave South Marston airfield to make way for a Honda car plant . |
| 6 | Urban developers working on the western edge of San Salvador defied a court ban and continued to bulldoze the capital of a pre-Columbian civilisation Cuscatlan , ancient capital of the Pipil Indians to make way for a housing project . |