Example sentences of "make way for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Will he now do something about it by calling a general election and making way for a Labour Government committed to ridding this country of the Tory scourge of homelessness ?
2 We may now hope that , with the rebirth of our own mythology from music , the abstractions and the shallow optimism that have degraded the German genius for so long will make way for a new strength and joyful seriousness .
3 So Oxford 's Lord Mayor was the first to wield the demolition hammer to help make way for a new business park .
4 Sections on Calligraphy , Illustration , Typography and Book Design make way for a commercial break which introduces us to 28 first editions of Penguin paperbacks .
5 ‘ Sometimes one of the oldies will shout , ‘ Make way for a blind pensioner ’ , and we 'll let them take a wave , ’ the younger surfers laugh .
6 The houses will be for people who have to move out of Bentham Drive to make way for a new rail link .
7 The old terraced houses are being demolished to make way for a new shopping centre .
8 At the time , part of the mill was demolished to make way for a new road , some of the remainder being converted to shops .
9 WITH TEARS and bitter accusations of government insensitivity , an Angus family were yesterday thrown out of their home to make way for a new road .
10 ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’
11 A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage .
12 And last night Tory MPs were openly warning that , unless he managed a spectacular recovery , and got a grip , Mr Major would be forced like Lady Thatcher before him to make way for a new leader .
13 And last night Tory MPs were openly warning that , unless he managed a spectacular recovery , and got a grip , Mr Major would be forced like Lady Thatcher before him to make way for a new leader .
14 According to press reports , during the meeting Hariri had successfully allayed Hezbollah fears that a large number of buildings in the southern suburbs were to be demolished to make way for a new hospital .
15 One of South-East Asia 's richest botanical areas , the slopes of Mount Apo on the Philippine island of Mindanao , is to be cleared to make way for a geothermal power plant .
16 Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood .
17 By this time the tiny west wing of the villa had been removed to make way for a gigantic conservatory , which has since disappeared .
18 In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park .
19 Germans love a touch of ‘ Kultur ’ and those of Nuremberg are no exception — even the market square is occasionally cleared to make way for a huge stage .
20 Only a decade ago , an area called Poletown in inner-city Detroit — a diverse , thriving place cluttered with shops , churches and small manufacturing — was destroyed to make way for a giant car plant offering 4,000 jobs .
21 An overcrowded hostel was naturally keen to dispose of its more mature residents to make way for a fresh intake , while the foster parent was , by definition , a temporary parent offering short-term security against long-term uncertainty .
22 At this point optimism makes way for a new kind of awareness , tragic awareness , which can only be borne through art in the shape of myth .
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