Example sentences of "make way for a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old thatched tythe barn which stood end on to Silver Lane just below Manor Farm has now made way for a clutch of modern houses . |
| 2 | It was not until the First World War that the last vestiges of the Habsburg , Ottoman and Romanov empires finally crumbled , making way for a tier of nation states which lay across the map of Europe from the Baltic to the Aegean . |
| 3 | If Chamberlain really wanted to do that he should resign and make way for a government of genuine anti-appeasers . |
| 4 | It was bulldozed into oblivion in the 1970s to make way for a couple of undistinguished skyscrapers and a brick-pathed wasteland called by the city , a park . |
| 5 | ‘ This , ’ said Allen , ‘ was the case of my mother , for , my father dying , we were turned out of our homestead in the Dale to make way for a nephew of a new steward . ’ |
| 6 | Aviemore Cottage , built around 1886 , was demolished five years ago to make way for a block of flats — some of which have never been sold — while Aviemore House , a posting station on the old stagecoach route from Inverness , was pulled down by a property consortium in the 1960s . |