Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 2 | Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes . |
| 3 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
| 4 | It is a ‘ dressed ’ look ; old jeans and misshapen tee-shirts have absolutely no place here ; neither , anymore , does the archetypal Keegan perm and glam-rock hairstyle of the seventies , which has now given way to the smoothly sculpted cut with every hair in its layered place . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State 's catchphrase ’ smaller is better ’ has now given way to ’ so small that it is almost non-existent ’ in regard to 15 Para . |