Example sentences of "was demolished make [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the church had a beautiful Gothic façade , but during renovation work on the Palazzo Reale in 1770 this was demolished to make way for a new main staircase . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the time , part of the mill was demolished to make way for a new road , some of the remainder being converted to shops . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |