Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun] give way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In much the way that curriculum development and in-service education relinquished their dependence on centralised projects and courses and came to be focused on the particular contexts of schools , so also the preoccupation of project evaluation with theoretical models and procedures gave way to a practical need to solve concrete problems of educational practice in schools . |
| 2 | Once Wordsworth could believe that the sound of angels ' wings comforted childhood sleep but now , thanks to Dr Freud , the belief is that childhood imagination is an extended video nasty , with unacknowledged lusts and cravings giving way to fantasies of violence and the visitation of mutants . |
| 3 | If this social ascendancy depended on land it was reinforced by the widespread rebuilding of country seats in the eighteenth century and the reordering of the ornamental parks which surrounded them ; the symmetrical English formality of the grander Tudor houses and gardens gave way to a new Italianate classicism which combined with an image of the countryside often quite distinct from the comparative agricultural disorder which remained outside the pales of their civilised owners . |
| 4 | He flew slowly and high , watching the land unfold beneath him as buildings and roads gave way to brief outcrops of country followed by more towns . |
| 5 | The hold tightened as Saxon thegns and clergy gave way to Normans . |
| 6 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 7 | He argues that people will apply ‘ right behaviour ’ when ‘ abstractions and intangibles give way to the here and now , the seen and felt , the real and known . |
| 8 | Jaguars and Chevrolets give way to troops of smooth-skinned little white goats like antelope . |
| 9 | Conspicuous consumption , foreign wars and protectionism gave way to the saving of monetary wealth , free trade and the search for additional overseas and domestic markets to exploit for economic gain . |