Example sentences of "to make way for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
| 4 | Krenz 's programme of measures may have to make way for a more revolutionary alternative — and Krenz too . |
| 5 | By this time the tiny west wing of the villa had been removed to make way for a gigantic conservatory , which has since disappeared . |
| 6 | A COUNCIL 'S attempt to sell playing fields to make way for a supermarket was blocked in the High Court yesterday . |
| 7 | Once the church had a beautiful Gothic façade , but during renovation work on the Palazzo Reale in 1770 this was demolished to make way for a new main staircase . |
| 8 | At the time , part of the mill was demolished to make way for a new road , some of the remainder being converted to shops . |
| 9 | The health authority wished to demolish this very attractive group of buildings dating from 1838 to make way for a car-park . |
| 10 | It was demolished in a hurry one night in 1983 to make way for a McDonalds . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | There is a plan to clear the site to make way for a spanking new conference centre . |
| 14 | An overcrowded hostel was naturally keen to dispose of its more mature residents to make way for a fresh intake , while the foster parent was , by definition , a temporary parent offering short-term security against long-term uncertainty . |
| 15 | A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage . |
| 16 | But if the kid from Cardiff is n't too happy at his shunt to starboard — to make way for a revitalised Sharpe — the twin source of young skills looked a devastating force in the victories against both Oldham and Arsenal . |
| 17 | The old terraced houses are being demolished to make way for a new shopping centre . |
| 18 | GREEN demonstrators wept yesterday as trees were torn down to make way for a giant Tesco 's . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Only a decade ago , an area called Poletown in inner-city Detroit — a diverse , thriving place cluttered with shops , churches and small manufacturing — was destroyed to make way for a giant car plant offering 4,000 jobs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Germans love a touch of ‘ Kultur ’ and those of Nuremberg are no exception — even the market square is occasionally cleared to make way for a huge stage . |
| 26 | I went back to see it , first in a state of dereliction , then half-demolished to make way for a private housing-state development . |
| 27 | They stood aside to make way for a blind Indian youth in a parka who was confidently striding down the way with his cane held out before him . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature . |