Example sentences of "make way for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old thatched tythe barn which stood end on to Silver Lane just below Manor Farm has now made way for a clutch of modern houses . |
| 2 | It was not until the First World War that the last vestiges of the Habsburg , Ottoman and Romanov empires finally crumbled , making way for a tier of nation states which lay across the map of Europe from the Baltic to the Aegean . |
| 3 | But the full anthem was gradually making way for the verse anthem , of which Gibbons was the outstanding master . |
| 4 | Miniaturisation enabled small nuclear artillery shells to be produced and that , in its turn , made way for the development of the theory that we now call flexible response . |
| 5 | If Chamberlain really wanted to do that he should resign and make way for a government of genuine anti-appeasers . |
| 6 | Make way for the king 's heralds ! ’ |
| 7 | Make way for the Lord Mayor ! ’ he bellowed , shoving through the throng to the riverbank . |
| 8 | ‘ Make way for the Lord Mayor , ’ she said one day on the front steps , as she moved her bucket aside , and he , bending over her , said , ‘ Many a true word spoken in jest , Rosie , ’ to which she had reacted quickly , saying , ‘ Yes , Mr Jones ; but those who sit on horsehair chairs generally get their bums scratched , ’ bringing from him the reaction of a push on the side of her head and their laughing together . |
| 9 | When his illness was at the active stage , he was very particular about keeping his own utensils separate from everyone else 's , and would joke about it , saying as he sat down at the table , ‘ Make way for the leper . ’ |
| 10 | It was bulldozed into oblivion in the 1970s to make way for a couple of undistinguished skyscrapers and a brick-pathed wasteland called by the city , a park . |
| 11 | On Monday , work will begin on dismantling the railway bridge at Delves Lane and Station Road to make way for a roundabout on the new Consett by-pass . |
| 12 | PROTESTERS have occupied an 18th century thatched cottage due to be demolished to make way for a by-pass . |
| 13 | The protest campaign was sparked by a council decision earlier this year to fell the trees — 10 beech , one scots pine and one yew — to make way for a road improvement scheme said to be needed for a new supermarket . |
| 14 | The Tolson Memorial Museum is in Ravensknowle Park , where some parts of the town 's eighteenth-century Cloth Hall have been re-erected , after the historic building 's demolition in 1930 to make way for a cinema the local product was displaced by fantasies woven in Hollywood . |
| 15 | ‘ This , ’ said Allen , ‘ was the case of my mother , for , my father dying , we were turned out of our homestead in the Dale to make way for a nephew of a new steward . ’ |
| 16 | Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel . |
| 17 | Shortly after returning to Etosha , Ian Hofmeyr was killed when his catching truck , pulling over to make way for a lorry on a park track , rolled onto its side in an irrigation ditch . |
| 18 | It is now clear that the earthen bank had been cut back to make way for a stone wall , resting on cobbled foundations up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) wide , but unfortunately no precise dating evidence for its construction was recovered . |
| 19 | The health authority wished to demolish this very attractive group of buildings dating from 1838 to make way for a car-park . |
| 20 | Aviemore Cottage , built around 1886 , was demolished five years ago to make way for a block of flats — some of which have never been sold — while Aviemore House , a posting station on the old stagecoach route from Inverness , was pulled down by a property consortium in the 1960s . |
| 21 | A COUNCIL 'S attempt to sell playing fields to make way for a supermarket was blocked in the High Court yesterday . |
| 22 | Urban developers working on the western edge of San Salvador defied a court ban and continued to bulldoze the capital of a pre-Columbian civilisation Cuscatlan , ancient capital of the Pipil Indians to make way for a housing project . |
| 23 | He says back in 1963 the trough was due to be broken up to make way for a path . |
| 24 | The club closed in the late Sixties and was later demolished to make way for the shopping centre Eldon Gardens . |
| 25 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 26 | An early fourth-century building had been demolished to make way for the wall , thus providing an approximate date for its construction . |
| 27 | An entire population of rare tree frogs on Hong Kong 's Chek Lap Kok island is to be destroyed to make way for the construction of a new international airport , for which the island is about to be blown up . |
| 28 | The room was still in the mess in which the incident squad had left it , the desks pushed together to serve as mortuary slabs and the movable screens stacked to one side to make way for the meat sacks being carried out . |
| 29 | According to the ancient wisdom , spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make way for the Self . |
| 30 | The ruins of the medieval Berwick Castle were removed to make way for the station , and some of its stone was used in the construction of the bridge , though parts of it are of brick with stone facings . |