Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun] give way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , 78 r.p.m records and wind-up gramophones gave way in the 1950s to LPs and open-reel tape-recorders . |
| 2 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 3 | The chances are that , if Mr Major gives way to Mr Kinnock in a hung Parliament , Labour will attempt to govern as a minority administration . |
| 4 | The run-down villas and cement footpaths give way to dusty tracks and wooden shacks . |
| 5 | Lord Goddard was then in only his sixth year as Lord Chief Justice , never looked like someone about to retire , and indeed continued in office for three years after Sir Winston gave way as Prime Minister in 1955 . |
| 6 | The experience was more the rule than the exception ; so too , as winter sufferings gave way to a torrid summer , was this spectacle : |
| 7 | At any rate , this is the seasonal question for MPs , as February snow gives way to thin , unconvincing sunshine . |
| 8 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |