Example sentences of "[to-vb] way for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grynd continues , but these days the whale meat is no longer needed for food , and islanders are often having to empty last year 's whale meat from the freezer to make way for the fresh catch . |
| 2 | In other words , the true date lies between TL 1080 and 1240 , with 95 per cent confidence , clearly demonstrating that the third alternative holds : the daub is broadly contemporary with the backfilling of the drain and coincides with clearance of buildings in the eleventh century AD to make way for the building of the priory church . |
| 3 | Nottingham Victoria after clearance of platforms to make way for the present shopping centre . |
| 4 | The church took its name from that of an older church a little way off that was demolished to make way for the ramparts of the Porta Romana in 1532 . |
| 5 | Despite the vast size of their houses and the numerous servants surrounding each aristocratic family , on the death of a Victorian head of household ‘ his or her resident family was expected to leave to make way for the incoming heir and his or her family . |
| 6 | This had to be demolished to make way for the new library complex and it was impossible to find alternative accommodation for all the books stored there . |
| 7 | In reality , the saloon is mounted on the frame and bogies of Pantograph car 170 of 1928 , whose body was scrapped in 1961 in order to make way for the Rocket . |
| 8 | The ruins of the medieval Berwick Castle were removed to make way for the station , and some of its stone was used in the construction of the bridge , though parts of it are of brick with stone facings . |
| 9 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 10 | The outer room was already full of readers but people were being turned out of the inner room to make way for the meeting . |
| 11 | The houses remained until the early 1950s when they were knocked down to make way for the new church . |
| 12 | The State Paper Office was architecturally the most interesting building to be demolished to make way for the present Foreign Office . |
| 13 | Just at that moment my gardener came with his basket , and when the woman realised that the flowers in the vase on my table were going to be thrown away , to make way for the fresh ones . |
| 14 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 15 | The virgin forest which is hacked down to make way for the cattle is virtually free , and when the soil is exhausted the ranchers just move on to another plot . |
| 16 | The property was demolished in 1869 to make way for the new museum building and the Survey moved to No. 1 India Buildings , Victoria Street , a building still in existence . |
| 17 | According to the ancient wisdom , spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make way for the Self . |
| 18 | Saturday night 's last performance was followed by a frantic ‘ get out ’ to make way for the next show , tear-filled goodbyes and promises to write daily . |
| 19 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 20 | It was the destruction of thirty churches and monasteries in Bucharest to make way for the Civic Centre which aroused Western criticism of Ceauşescu 's rule on a grand scale . |
| 21 | Why , another member wanted to know , were the speeches of the president often cut short to make way for the programmes which follow ? |
| 22 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 23 | The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases . |
| 24 | As more and more Grand Prix races were added to the Formula One calendar the Cup lost its international appeal and in 1976 the Cup abolished to make way for the Formula Pacific Series in New Zealand , and the Formula 5000 Series in Australia . |
| 25 | During Stage II you may well find that you will need to give up one or both of your snacks each day in order to make way for the higher calorie foods that you will be adding to your diet . |
| 26 | Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new . |
| 27 | And er anyway , the situation was getting out of hand , and er the man in charge , the the the the superintendent , whoever he was , he gave the signal that these that these reserves should er should clear the street to make way for the to make way for the scabs . |
| 28 | And er anyway , the situation was getting out of hand , and er the man in charge , the the the the superintendent , whoever he was , he gave the signal that these that these reserves should er should clear the street to make way for the to make way for the scabs . |
| 29 | The room was still in the mess in which the incident squad had left it , the desks pushed together to serve as mortuary slabs and the movable screens stacked to one side to make way for the meat sacks being carried out . |
| 30 | She moved a couple of the sheets to make way for the saucers . |