Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The turbine eventually gave way to a pair of diesel engines . |
| 2 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
| 3 | But her early surge soon gave way to predictable ring-rust after five years off the professional circuit . |
| 4 | The military-oriented industries founded by Peter on forced labour gradually gave way to more diversified manufacture based on hired labour ( generally serfs still sending payments back to their villages ) . |
| 5 | The accord also included agreement to ‘ foster stability of exchange rates around current levels ’ . |
| 6 | The Soviet side then reiterated adherence to the Moscow agreement . |
| 7 | The Guild also encouraged women to be active in local government , to criticize or improve the administration of the Poor Law , education , housing and public health . |
| 8 | The Argentinian hero then recommended Willie to Lee Trevino , and thus began Willie 's relationship with Supermex . |
| 9 | NCR Corp yesterday announced enhancements to its Top Eed distributed transaction processing system . |
| 10 | The Test and County Cricket Board yesterday rejected trips to the Diamond Jubilee in Calcutta — in which most of the Test-playing countries are likely to be involved — and the Sharjah Championship Trophy in the Gulf . |
| 11 | Once Today moved into Rupert Murdoch 's News group it changed its politics ; its neutral stance and its support for a middle-of-the-road SDP government in the 1987 general election gradually gave way to a more Conservative outlook . |
| 12 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 13 | The era also gave birth to a whole array of new social problems . |
| 14 | The original inquiry also took detectives to the North of England . |
| 15 | The original inquiry also took detectives to the north of England . |
| 16 | Nor did it escape his attention that as well as its social role Heaven also gave access to a large group of demonstrably big spenders . |
| 17 | This fact would be useful for Essay A as Moltke was responsible for the military brilliance of the Prussians in the period and with Room for the restructuring of the army , which crisis also brought Bismarck to power on 23rd September 1862 . |
| 18 | The £800,000 signing from Nottingham Forest then paid tribute to the man who has helped transform his fiery character and enable him to take such a setback calmly in his stride — player-boss Francis . |
| 19 | The district auditor also drew attention to ‘ the continuing delay in producing accounts , their poor quality and the adverse effect on the stewardship of public funds ’ . |
| 20 | In deciding to impose the restrictions set out in paragraph 4 above , the board also gave weight to the fact that according to Norwich Union 's letter to the Chief Executive of 18 October 1990 , that company had no contractual power to suspend the Winchester Group pending the conclusion of the investigation in the absence of Lautro intervening under rule 7.3 . |
| 21 | In its ruling , however , the IWT also drew attention to the issue of energy use per se : " ( Environmental ) procedures and the generation of ever more information on impacts do not help avoid the essential issue that industrialized countries should reduce their wasteful energy consumption , rather than enlarging the capacity to create energy " . |
| 22 | Order backlog also increased 56% to £10.6m . |
| 23 | Ultimately the final culmination was the same : anarchy eventually gave place to patrician capitalism . |
| 24 | THE Stock Exchange is investigating two blatant share ramps which for a while yesterday added £178million to the value of conglomerate Williams Holdings , and knocked £94million from financial services group British & Commonwealth . |
| 25 | The communiqué also committed Germany to the creation of " conditions favourable to lower global interest rates " . |
| 26 | Much of this adverse criticism also drew attention to the usual association of the allowance system with some form of " make-work " scheme . |
| 27 | Quorum also found 80% to 85% of its potential audience are interested simply in running off-the-shelf Mac packages of Word and Excel : this is what Quorum is currently polishing up and will be showing . |
| 28 | Quorum also found 80% to 85% of its potential audience are interested in running just off-the-shelf Mac packages of Word and Excel which is what Quorum is currently polishing up and will be showing . |
| 29 | The SPA also confirmed changes to the Administrative Council ( Cabinet ) . |
| 30 | The editorial also made reference to the use of ‘ infidelity ’ problems by the media against other politicians , namely David Steele and Roy Hattersley . |