Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 2 | That pioneer-breed has made way for pampered and petted females who demand the best of two worlds . |
| 3 | Unless the gutter has split or cracked , it is most likely that either the gutter ( or downpipe ) is blocked and needs clearing ( page 78 ) or that a bracket has given way and the gutter is sagging . |
| 4 | But chemistry has to give way to physics . |
| 5 | In the case of these species , rigidly determined , genetically programmed instinctual behaviour has given way to much less clearly focused instinctual drives . |
| 6 | PROFESSOR Peter Smith believes that ‘ reasoned architectural criticism has given way to inflammatory metaphor ’ . |
| 7 | In the later 1980s , the predominance of the short , ‘ continuing education ’ event has given way to a polarisation between formal ‘ educational ’ programmes , such as Certificates in Management Studies and MBAs , and informal work-place , problem-solving learning , often associated with consultancy . |
| 8 | I am glad that my hon. Friend has given way again , because it is some time since I smelt a rat in the Chamber , but there is one knocking about tonight . |
| 9 | Anxious talk of inflation has given way to even more anxious talk of a steep recession that would wring much of Poland 's industry out of existence . |
| 10 | By the time the studio came to make The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) , about a village 's attempt to preserve their branch line against nasty entrepreneurs who have set up a bus service , gentle anarchy has given way to nostalgia for Olde England . |
| 11 | There is always a point in every case where direct evidence has to give way to circumstantial evidence . |
| 12 | The principle of non-intervention has given way to the need for legal response to international wrong-doing , coupled with responsibility for such acts . |
| 13 | The wooden crucifix is Gothic in style and was probably executed by an artist from the Rhineland , though in the face of Christ the angular character of Northern European sculpture has given way to a more classical serenity . |
| 14 | The collapse of the command economy has given way to a good deal of racketeering and corruption . |
| 15 | Today the name has changed to Scotmid , there is no longer a ‘ divvie ’ for the members , and the image of a corner store has given way to that of bright modern supermarkets . |
| 16 | ‘ The intellectual and rational conception of life has given way to a more creative interpretation ’ , wrote the British Surrealist Eileen Agar in 1931 , ‘ and artistic life is under the sway of womb-magic ’ ; and Agar give expression to this ‘ womb-magic ’ in the foetal and embryonic forms which play a central part in paintings such as ‘ Family Trio ’ or ‘ The Autobiography of an Embryo ’ where fluid shapes float across the picture plane to be captured in a net of geometric planes . |
| 17 | There is nothing wrong with the periphery which may still be vigorous and successful but the centre has given way . |
| 18 | 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 . ) |
| 19 | By 1985 this businesslike severity has given way to a white pie-frill collared blouse from Laura Ashley . |
| 20 | Where such culturally based courses have provoked resistance , race awareness training has given way to courses that are less inward looking but which are designed to promote specific practical anti-racist goals . |
| 21 | When tissue begins to react to the commensals causing inflammation , the process of colonisation has given way to infection . |
| 22 | The Orb 's popularity has gone way beyond a club coterie now , way beyond a clique of space cadets and opinion leaders in darkened rooms at dawn . |
| 23 | That room still exists and although the crucifix has given way to an omnidimensional cross cum globe , for twenty minutes every morning , before our regular sessions started , Christopher Pilkington led a quiet period of meditative prayer . |
| 24 | Stone has given way to glass and concrete . |
| 25 | Although the authors in this ‘ school ’ focus on different aspects of permissive Britain , they are all united by their acceptance of the idea that previously existing moral consensus has given way to confusion and uncertainty . |
| 26 | Here the bargaining stage has given way to a period of time when you feel it is just not possible to cope with the situation and the future looks bleak . |
| 27 | A general perception of Britain in continued decline has given way in the past week to a feeling that the economy really is ‘ bottoming out ’ at last , says David Kern , chief economist of the National Westminster Bank . |