Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pidgin form used ( and it can exist with or without fixed English syntactic markers ) has naturally given way in the USA and Scandinavia to a greater interest and access to the sign language as used by deaf people . |
| 2 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes . |
| 5 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
| 6 | It is a ‘ dressed ’ look ; old jeans and misshapen tee-shirts have absolutely no place here ; neither , anymore , does the archetypal Keegan perm and glam-rock hairstyle of the seventies , which has now given way to the smoothly sculpted cut with every hair in its layered place . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State 's catchphrase ’ smaller is better ’ has now given way to ’ so small that it is almost non-existent ’ in regard to 15 Para . |
| 8 | As over 300 TV channels swamp the Caribbean with more than 80% foreign programming content , Caricom has increasingly sought ways to develop a local media industry . |
| 9 | The earlier deluge had eventually given way to more normal rain , and now finally that too had passed . |
| 10 | We 've all got ways of feeding our self esteem and it 's just a way of doing that . ’ |
| 11 | This is well-illustrated by the plentiful funerary monuments of hellenistic Boiotia , which retain features , such as the simple naming of the dead man without patronymic , which in other parts of the Greek world had long given way to more sophisticated formulae ; and Boiotia retained her local script till the age of Epaminondas in the fourth century . |
| 12 | Where it was advantageous to do so , the peasantry had already found ways to circumvent the formal constraints of the commune . |
| 13 | By the eighteenth century the older and rougher leathers had largely given way to finer products , often polished and patterned in a variety of ways , e.g. calf could be ‘ sprinkled ’ ( speckled by acid in a regular pattern ) , ‘ mottled ’ ( having an irregular all-over pattern , also produced by acid ) or ‘ diced ’ ( having a pattern of diamond squares ) . |
| 14 | The initial air of reasonableness and cordiality had quickly given way to a more chameleonlike personality , shifting and dodging behind a variety of masks ; one minute the crafty haberdasher , the next the erudite political activist , the next the polite , smiling business associate . |
| 15 | By the classical period of Greek thought the myth of the Golden Age had partially given way to the opposite idea that man 's early condition was ‘ nasty , brutish and short ’ . |
| 16 | Early this morning , in the darkness of his bedroom , waking up after the nightmare , he had almost given way to panic . |
| 17 | We have already illustrated ways in which the research on the effects of brain damage on mental processes had taken the form of defining increasingly more specific patterns of disorder . |
| 18 | I think that I have already given way a reasonable number of times . |
| 19 | There is a streamlined efficiency about his recordings which is beyond question , with everything well prepared and executed , but it has always struck me that his interpretative qualities have always lagged way behind his undisputed capabilities as an orchestral trainer . |
| 20 | Energy planners have also developed ways of including the energy efficiency of each fuel source in cost-benefit models . |
| 21 | Employers ' organisations like the Confederation of British Industry and the Institute of Personnel Management have also proposed ways of tackling the problem . |
| 22 | They have also suggested ways in which parents can reduce the risk of food sensitivity in their children , as explained on pp 241–7 . |
| 23 | Our only area of difficulty was that the Christian Democrats initially argued against extending this policy to cover religious schools — but they have now given way . |
| 24 | A larger proportion of labour with continuous tenure means a significant rise in labour costs to firms , and over the past decade Japanese companies have either found ways of flattening the wage profile or have ‘ encouraged ’ labour transfers into subsidiaries or satellite firms . |