Example sentences of "have [to-vb] way [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ... 21 AT London Scottish the role of providing rugby opportunities to Scots in London is still important , but in times of league realism , racial purity has had to give way to the expediency of also running a successful 1st XV .
2 It may mean that a neonatal intensive care unit , after careful reflection , rather than emotional appeals and ‘ shroud-waving ’ , may have to give way to a number of other services , relating , for example , to the mentally ill , all of which can be financed for the cost of one such unit , which , in combination , will facilitate a measure of improvement in the patients ' conditions and their integration into society .
3 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 .
4 In the end they will have to give way to a Government who will not work in that way .
5 While it is not right that either partner should always have to give way to the other , each may have to concede at times , for both their sakes and for the well-being of their marriage .
6 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 .
7 Krenz 's programme of measures may have to make way for a more revolutionary alternative — and Krenz too .
8 Since the proclamation of Czech independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 , the castle has sheltered the president of the Czech Republic , and you may have to make way for an enfilade of black limousines or indeed for the changing of the guard every hour in their colourful new uniforms .
9 Naturally , the words ‘ Central daily of the Hungarian Social Workers ’ Party' also had to give way to a much simpler phrase : ‘ Socialist Daily ’ .
10 He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist .
11 3 The act not only created a situation in which the House of Lords had to give way to the House of Commons , but in providing for the " representation of the people " it admitted a new principle of linkage between the state and society .
12 In the Soviet Union the emphasis on ‘ socialist legality ’ meant that the interests of particular individuals had to give way to the interests of society as a whole as interpreted by the party and government .
13 It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice .
14 Yet general strategy , however serious a concern , had to give way before the immediate problem of the winter ‘ 78 collection .
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