Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [to-vb] way " in BNC.

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1 But chemistry has to give way to physics .
2 It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice .
3 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 .
4 There is always a point in every case where direct evidence has to give way to circumstantial evidence .
5 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 .
6 In competition with lucrative private sector offers , however , the Treasury 's approach had to give way to pragmatic concessions to attract able men .
7 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 . )
8 Clearly an innovating minister has to find ways to get a vast operational organization to change its ways .
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