Example sentences of "[to-vb] way for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Output is now being increased as the domestic cattle population increases , and as tropical forest is felled to make way for grassland — which is ideal territory for termites . |
| 32 | McClair survived a dismal autumn — dropped by Scotland , dropped by Ferguson and then everybody 's favourite to make way for Cantona . |
| 33 | One curious conclusion is that the dinosaurs had to die to make way for humans : this is the starkest meaning of the Anthropic Principle . |
| 34 | Saddest sight at Portsmouth , by the way , was that of the disconsolate Bobby Parks after discovering he 'd been left out once again , to make way for Adrian Aymes . |
| 35 | Gary Vincent , the presenter giving up his prime time slot to make way for DLT , is philosophical . |
| 36 | 50 years on the huts at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes are near derelict and threatened with demolition , to make way for factories . |
| 37 | At a relatively early stage in England — the Black Death in the fourteenth century is one marker — feudal relations in the countryside began to make way for wage labour and the beginnings of a market in land as a commodity . |
| 38 | Burns was left out of the drawn League match at Wolves on Saturday to make way for loan signing Alan McLoughlin . |
| 39 | And there she had been again , almost packed to make way for Mr Martin 's wife , when once again fate had taken a hand , and now she was set nicely . |
| 40 | He became a vice-president of the club three years ago , on resigning as a director to make way for Mr Bill Kenwright . |
| 41 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 42 | The Glamorgan opener drops down to vice-captain to make way for Yorkshire 's Martyn Moxon . |
| 43 | The confusion , fortified by a fear on the part of some members that they were going to be asked to make way for Austen Chamberlain and Birkenhead , gave Baldwin almost complete freedom . |
| 44 | Rare frogs " blown up " to make way for Hong Kong 's airport |
| 45 | It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa . |
| 46 | It had happened before , to make way for Muldoon . |
| 47 | Wilfrid , however , reacted passionately , if not to the partition of his diocese then to his expulsion and to the bishops who were appointed from communities other than his own — Eata , who had been obliged to leave a new monastic foundation at Ripon to make way for Wilfrid in Ealhfrith 's time , now consecrated bishop in Bernicia with his see at Wilfrid 's monastic foundation at Hexham ; Eadhaed , a former companion of Chad ( HE 111 , 28 ) , bishop of Lindsey ; and Bosa , trained at Whitby where the community under Abbess Hild had opposed acceptance of the Roman Easter at the council of Whitby , bishop of Deira at York ( HE IV , 12 ) . |
| 48 | It seems highly likely , for example , that much of the nitrate now appearing in some ground water in Britain was actually first released almost fifty years ago , when grassland was ploughed to make way for cereal as the country strove to increase its home-grown food supply . |
| 49 | That leaves Zoff with foreign stars Thomas Doll and Aaron Winter , who was left out to make way for Gazza . |
| 50 | That meant one of two things — the remaining houses were either being patched up or demolished to make way for pre-fabs . |