Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | How then did occasional individual violence give way to the regular and organized group aggression of the ‘ ends ’ witnessed since the 1960s ? |
| 2 | With a wet spring giving way to brilliant dry weather many of the mountain crags have been receiving attention , both in terms of new routes and repeats of less frequented or unrepeated lines . |
| 3 | As the freshness of spring gave way to the heat of summer , it became obvious that Elizabeth was indeed pregnant . |
| 4 | The cool and rainy spring gave way to warm summer days and still the threatened General Strike had not taken place . |
| 5 | Spectacular physical violence gives way to silent coercion . |
| 6 | The interesting point , however , is that divisions within the student body would become less significant as conditions for all students deteriorated throughout the reform decade and optimism gave way to despair . |
| 7 | Here the limestone of the Force gives way to peat moorlands pierced by disused coal pits , abandoned long ago but temporarily revived by the villagers during the coal strike of 1926 . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the post-war boom gave way to mounting and menacing unemployment , while the rootlessness of Lloyd George 's policies , both at home and abroad , became increasingly apparent to those who were undazzled by his personality . |
| 9 | They were replaced by a local bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie associated with the ascendant manufacturing and commercial sectors , while rural labour gave way to industrial labour . |
| 10 | Grief gave way to a guilt which gnawed at him . |
| 11 | Then indigenous wool gave way to exotic rubber , with the result that the ball now rebounded very happily off stone walls , and new , ‘ indirect ’ varieties of pelota were invented . |
| 12 | With the passage of time , such perilous subsistence gave way to more profitable wildfowling . |
| 13 | The atmosphere of transcendental romantic sensibility gives way to fleeting states of mind , momentary sensations , or a disinterested humour , often imbued with a note of elegiac melancholy . |
| 14 | At any rate , this is the seasonal question for MPs , as February snow gives way to thin , unconvincing sunshine . |
| 15 | Another version of the same question is to ask what became of the ostlers , grooms , and blacksmiths as the horse gave way to the internal combustion engine . |
| 16 | But if fear gives way to fury — as has happened with the formation of this vociferous pressure group and watchdog — those feelings need no longer be followed by a sense of frustration and impotence . |
| 17 | When they get there , their rather random search gives way to much more deliberate seeking for the nipple , and mouthing changes to active sucking . |
| 18 | When fear gave way to relief and a different kind of laughter . |
| 19 | If the historical trajectory of the Scrapbook is followed ( SI through Fluxus , Heatwave , King Mob , Jamie Reid , Vivienne Westwood , and the Sex Pistols ) the Situationist role for the intellectual as an informed but passionate critic gives way to philistine incitements to violence ( typified by King Mob in Britain , the Motherfuckers in the USA , and also indirectly the punk phenomenon ) but more commonly a laidback and philosophically weak critique of everyday life . |
| 20 | Print check points way to trickster |
| 21 | Vehicle loses way to hitherto unvisited firing-point . |
| 22 | This would also bind an eventually merged Germany , which the Soviet Union recognises might be born when Nato and the Warsaw Pact give way to a new European security system . |
| 23 | This would also bind an eventually merged Germany , which the Soviet Union recognises might be born when Nato and the Warsaw Pact give way to a new European security system . |
| 24 | The University Grants Committee gave way to the Funding Council . |
| 25 | As the cold winter gave way to early spring more shipping sailed up the Thames , bringing some extra work for the struggling rivermen , but there was still much unemployment in the riverside borough . |
| 26 | There were , however , consistent differences in the quality of experience as wakefulness gave way to sleep . |
| 27 | One social formation gives way to another . |
| 28 | Dry desert gave way to blue lagoons full of water lilies , palm trees , islands and deep blue lakes . |
| 29 | International treaty law gives way to the constitutional law of the State in question which determines the effect of a treaty within the particular legal system . |
| 30 | The red flag gave way to the red rose , the ‘ Red Flag ’ to Purcell and Queen . |