Example sentences of "[noun pl] gave [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronic valves gave way to transistors , and these have been replaced by the silicon chip , literally a thin slice of silicon , on which miniature electrical circuits can be created . |
| 2 | The hold tightened as Saxon thegns and clergy gave way to Normans . |
| 3 | It was inconvenient ; the prospects for private accumulation in the future was slimmer ; the expectation that public enterprise would be less responsive to needs than free traders gave rise to fears of a general decline in wealth and amenity , |
| 4 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 5 | East of Wallaroo the country flattened out , wheatfields gave way to spinifex grass and mallee ( eucalyptus ) scrub until finally the highest point on the horizon was art anthill . |
| 6 | These gateways gave entrance to avenues with covered arcades on each side which led to the centre of the enclosure . |
| 7 | Paddle steamers gave way to screw steamers . |
| 8 | Not just the elements gave rise to life |
| 9 | Other lines gave rise to forms in which the shells were loosely coiled or almost straight . |
| 10 | The difference of treatment for the two bids gave rise to criticism that the government 's merger policy favoured conglomerates . |
| 11 | L.F. COSTERTIUM , FECIT ’ ( Marcus Agrippa , Son of Lucius , consul for the third time , built this ) — for many years gave rise to misconceptions regarding the period of building of the Pantheon . |
| 12 | The iron hand of the Conservative administration 's first 5 years gave way to sermons on personal responsibility . |
| 13 | These technological successes gave credibility to Khruschev 's claims that Communist states could eventually overtake capitalist economic growth . |
| 14 | Together these firms gave birth to Canning Town , where the vast majority of their workforces resided , and spawned numerous subsidiary industries ( Figure 1.2 ) . |
| 15 | It had long been known that some metals gave colours to flames ; but this was an unreliable test , because colours are hard to describe exactly , and because they are usually masked by a brilliant orange-yellow . |
| 16 | These provisions gave rise to uncertainty largely because the courts showed a marked reluctance to interpret them according to the ordinary meaning of such words as ‘ void , and they also gave rise to injustice because under the Common Law an infant could still sue an adult upon a contract unenforceable against himself and incapable of ratification by him . |
| 17 | The initial low volume of stock option deals gave rise to doubts as to whether demand existed in the UK for a traded options market . |
| 18 | By the early 1980s problems for some Central and South American countries in meeting interest and principal repayments on outstanding loans gave rise to fears of an international debt crisis . |
| 19 | Dozens of lives could be saved every year if GPs gave penicillin to people with the brain disease meningitis . |
| 20 | In other words , did the religious belief stimulate the precise astronomical observation , or was it that the study of the skies gave rise to beliefs about the gods ? |
| 21 | The trees gave way to scrub and there was little shade . |
| 22 | Horse buses gave way to motor transport , and the Hull and Barnsley Railway with stations at Springhead Halt and Willerby village . |
| 23 | Maids gave birth to monsters . |
| 24 | The houses gave way to shops and the slope levelled off , then he was in a narrow main street where it was easily possible to hop on one leg from one gift shop to the next … all of them closed until Easter . |
| 25 | The Times gave prominence to cricket but thought the FA Cup Final in 1914 ‘ of comparatively little interest except to the Lancashire working classes ’ ( the game was between Liverpool and Burnley ) . |
| 26 | When its near discordant notes gave way to Rooster and the driving beat of early Rolling Stones music , it was as if the the group and the whole theatre had been struck by benign lightening . |
| 27 | Quite often Catholic groups gave support to Franco against the Socialist Republican government , on the grounds that the latter was responsible for the burning of churches and the murdering of Catholics . |
| 28 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 29 | SHEEP farmer Dominic O'Kelly was surprised when one of his ewes gave birth to quads last week . |
| 30 | Carter 's federally aided approach to help cities adjust to changing economic realities gave way to Reagan 's sink-or-swim philosophy . |