Example sentences of "[to-vb] way [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |
| 2 | The large numbers of new aircraft entering service made it obvious that ‘ on-squadron ’ conversion would have to give way to a proper Operational Conversion Unit ( OCU ) and so in the latter part of 1951 , 231 OCU was formed at RAF Bassingbourn , a place that became with the Canberra . |
| 3 | The leisure and recreational movements generated from the grassroots or from the concerned philanthropist looking down from on high were to give way to a cultural and economic popularism which was to be progressively constructed by the new generation of market-orientated professionals . |
| 4 | The normal pattern is for the initial expansionist phase to give way to a marginal state , which eventually leads through recession to the residual phase . |
| 5 | There is a plan to clear the site to make way for a spanking new conference centre . |
| 6 | Once the church had a beautiful Gothic façade , but during renovation work on the Palazzo Reale in 1770 this was demolished to make way for a new main staircase . |
| 7 | At the time , part of the mill was demolished to make way for a new road , some of the remainder being converted to shops . |
| 8 | A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage . |
| 9 | The old terraced houses are being demolished to make way for a new shopping centre . |
| 10 | According to press reports , during the meeting Hariri had successfully allayed Hezbollah fears that a large number of buildings in the southern suburbs were to be demolished to make way for a new hospital . |
| 11 | Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station . |
| 12 | The houses will be for people who have to move out of Bentham Drive to make way for a new rail link . |
| 13 | And last night Tory MPs were openly warning that , unless he managed a spectacular recovery , and got a grip , Mr Major would be forced like Lady Thatcher before him to make way for a new leader . |
| 14 | And last night Tory MPs were openly warning that , unless he managed a spectacular recovery , and got a grip , Mr Major would be forced like Lady Thatcher before him to make way for a new leader . |
| 15 | ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’ |
| 16 | WITH TEARS and bitter accusations of government insensitivity , an Angus family were yesterday thrown out of their home to make way for a new road . |
| 17 | One of South-East Asia 's richest botanical areas , the slopes of Mount Apo on the Philippine island of Mindanao , is to be cleared to make way for a geothermal power plant . |
| 18 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
| 19 | I went back to see it , first in a state of dereliction , then half-demolished to make way for a private housing-state development . |
| 20 | But if the kid from Cardiff is n't too happy at his shunt to starboard — to make way for a revitalised Sharpe — the twin source of young skills looked a devastating force in the victories against both Oldham and Arsenal . |
| 21 | They stood aside to make way for a blind Indian youth in a parka who was confidently striding down the way with his cane held out before him . |
| 22 | By this time the tiny west wing of the villa had been removed to make way for a gigantic conservatory , which has since disappeared . |
| 23 | In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park . |
| 24 | Germans love a touch of ‘ Kultur ’ and those of Nuremberg are no exception — even the market square is occasionally cleared to make way for a huge stage . |
| 25 | GREEN demonstrators wept yesterday as trees were torn down to make way for a giant Tesco 's . |
| 26 | Only a decade ago , an area called Poletown in inner-city Detroit — a diverse , thriving place cluttered with shops , churches and small manufacturing — was destroyed to make way for a giant car plant offering 4,000 jobs . |
| 27 | An overcrowded hostel was naturally keen to dispose of its more mature residents to make way for a fresh intake , while the foster parent was , by definition , a temporary parent offering short-term security against long-term uncertainty . |