Example sentences of "[noun sg] give way " in BNC.

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1 A Mattel Kriss-Kross mountain bike with stabilisers had caught his neck , when he looked up , and brought him to the ground yet it was the red and yellow tractor which applied the pressure that made his neck give way with an awful crack .
2 So easily , Creggan , may an eagle give way to weakness .
3 There was no foothold and Maggie gave a cry of fear as she too felt the ground give way beneath them as they slid over the edge towards the lake .
4 Every one of her senses sharpened to its utmost Gina entered a world as unreal and beautiful as Tivoli itself , mindlessly letting conscious thought give way to pure sensation , as his voice caressed her ears with words which could only be endearments , husky and broken .
5 Mr. Thomas McAvoy ( Glasgow , Rutherglen ) : Will the Minister give way ?
6 Mr. Robert Hughes : Will the Minister give way ?
7 Will the Minister give way ?
8 Will the Minister give way ?
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10 Will the Minister give way ?
11 Will the Minister give way ?
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14 Will the Minister give way ?
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19 Will the Minister give way ?
20 Will the Minister give way on the provision of interpreters ?
21 Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close .
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