Example sentences of "have [verb] way to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ober Gabelhorn was once a prized addition to a climber 's logbook but is slightly out of fashion now , just as Zermatt has given way to Chamonix . |
| 2 | The early consequences have been devastating — a rapid fall in GDP , large-scale unemployment , sharply declining living standards for a large part of the population , the loss of important social rights , and the emergence of extreme inequality — and the mood that prevailed in 1989 , of entering joyfully into a £ brave new world , has given way to disillusionment and hostility . |
| 3 | But for many east Germans , the jubilation of unity night last October has given way to frustration and fear of unemployment . |
| 4 | Industrial research has reflected this , and the earlier use of antibodies , based on electrochemical detection and a reformatted conventional immunoassay , has given way to antibodies being used as part of optical waveguides ( eg flexible optical fibres , prisms and glass plates ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The dual-presenter format which ITN has stuck with since News At Ten 's launch 25 years ago has given way to McDonald sitting alone in the style of a US network star like Dan Rather . |
| 7 | This is so because a limited accountability in terms only of satisfying employers in local authorities or inspectors of schools has given way to openness and to the multiplication of participators who claim a say in the running of education . |
| 8 | When tissue begins to react to the commensals causing inflammation , the process of colonisation has given way to infection . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stone has given way to glass and concrete . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But chemistry has to give way to physics . |
| 13 | Efficiency of operations has to give way to inventiveness and creativity . |
| 14 | She remembered how helplessly she 'd given way to Jake 's madness on Starr Hills . |
| 15 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 16 | The previous day 's drizzle had given way to sun and wind . |
| 17 | I spoke calmly since now revulsion had given way to hopelessness . |
| 18 | Up in the dome , the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige : the weather was right , apparently . |
| 19 | With Gibbons , he wrote , oak had given way to limewood and earthbound solidity to feats of impossible lightness . |
| 20 | At the end of the nineteenth century the verdict of the legal philosopher Dicey was that laissez-faire had given way to collectivism ; that government had begun to assume a role in society that had taken Britain well on the way to becoming a socialist state . |
| 21 | He also perceived that monotony could be relieved by transposition of material , a foreshadowing of the key-schemes that would be possible when modality had given way to tonality . |
| 22 | When the light and warmth of the fire had given way to smoke , they put on their shoes and wandered homeward through the silent village and the frosty starlit night . |
| 23 | By 1962 , steam engines had given way to diesel locomotives and practically the whole of the system 's signalling had been renewed . |
| 24 | He had seen the whole pattern of crime change in the Oswaldston area in the course of his career : crimes that grew out of hunger and desperation had given way to crimes that grew out of affluence , greed , imitation and boredom . |
| 25 | But both had to give way to Larne AC 's flying doctor Peter Howie who produced his best ever run by storming through in the closing stages to grab the runner up spot . |
| 26 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 27 | The patriarchs of Christmas spending , Santa Claus and Good King Wenceslas , have given way to King Midas . |
| 28 | Patrick Faigenbaum , exhibiting at the Crousel-Robelin-Bama until 30 May , has changed his subject matter , but with no loss of intensity : his portraits of Italian aristocrats have given way to photographs of the Wailing Wall , taken during a recent visit to Jerusalem . |
| 29 | Ian Branfoot 's head is being screamed for by Southampton 's fans and Neil Warnock 's heady times at Notts County have given way to days of whine and losses . |
| 30 | The courtship , territory-defending days have given way to busy days of food-seeking and brood-raising . |