Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In competition with lucrative private sector offers , however , the Treasury 's approach had to give way to pragmatic concessions to attract able men . |