Example sentences of "to make way for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | PROTESTERS have occupied an 18th century thatched cottage due to be demolished to make way for a by-pass . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Hadjerai suspected that Habre 's Gorane people had murdered the Hadjerai leader Idriss Miskine in 1984 , and that ( prior to the April 1989 coup attempt-see p. 36581 ) the Hadjerai in government were being forced out to make way for a Gorane-Zaghawa alliance ; an apparent instance of this was the arrest in June 1988 of Public Works minister Moussa Khadam and three others . |
| 11 | The health authority wished to demolish this very attractive group of buildings dating from 1838 to make way for a car-park . |
| 12 | However he argued that ancient woodlands were still under threat from new planting and new road developments — for example the proposed destruction of Oxleas Wood in south east London , to make way for a Thames crossing . |
| 13 | It was demolished in a hurry one night in 1983 to make way for a McDonalds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Five years ago the Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre had to leave South Marston airfield to make way for a Honda car plant . |
| 16 | A COUNCIL 'S attempt to sell playing fields to make way for a supermarket was blocked in the High Court yesterday . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He says back in 1963 the trough was due to be broken up to make way for a path . |