Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efficiency of operations has to give way to inventiveness and creativity . |
| 2 | But chemistry has to give way to physics . |
| 3 | It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice . |
| 4 | Like other movements to bring about change in the same period antislavery had to find ways of attracting the attention and gaining the support of those who could advance the cause . |
| 5 | His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way . |
| 6 | In the Soviet Union the emphasis on ‘ socialist legality ’ meant that the interests of particular individuals had to give way to the interests of society as a whole as interpreted by the party and government . |
| 7 | There is always a point in every case where direct evidence has to give way to circumstantial evidence . |
| 8 | Already one can see the old ‘ paternalism ’ of the industry with its hierarchies and job guarantees having to give way to different business practices which take greater account of technical exigencies . |
| 9 | 3 The act not only created a situation in which the House of Lords had to give way to the House of Commons , but in providing for the " representation of the people " it admitted a new principle of linkage between the state and society . |
| 10 | So people have to devise ways of adapting to this gap between what they want and expect from society and the means they have available to obtain these things . |
| 11 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 12 | In competition with lucrative private sector offers , however , the Treasury 's approach had to give way to pragmatic concessions to attract able men . |
| 13 | Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . ) |
| 14 | Clearly an innovating minister has to find ways to get a vast operational organization to change its ways . |