Example sentences of "[to-vb] way for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United 's Darren Ferguson is likely to give way for Robson 's return , but manager Alex Ferguson softened the blow for his son when he said : ‘ The players know I 've been loyal to them because they have fought hard with little reward . |
| 2 | Who goes out to make way for Gallacher ? |
| 3 | Collor 's predecessor , Jose Sarney , abolished subsidies for cutting down the forest to make way for cattle in 1988 . |
| 4 | Norbert Gugerbauer resigned as FPÖ leader in the Nationalrat on March 5 to make way for Haider 's election to this post on March 10 . |
| 5 | Our motoring culture has a price all too evident to the police investigating car crime , to the victims of road accidents , and the nurses caring for them to the one in seven children suffering from asthma and the environment , as more and more areas of the countryside are carved up to make way for roads . |
| 6 | If the deal goes through , Dr Brian Smith will step down as chairman of MB Group to make way for Murray Stuart , currently group chief executive . |
| 7 | Is there any point in opening a book on who our Howard will drop to make way for rodders . |
| 8 | He stood aside to make way for Jerome to mount . |
| 9 | Ed Taylor , president of Pencom Software Inc , Austin , Texas , has stepped aside to make way for Frank King , erstwhile head of software development at Lotus Development Corp and past vice president of development for IBM 's personal computer division . |
| 10 | Leeds will have to off-load Kiwi utility back Morvin Edwards to make way for Lindner or Iro . |
| 11 | Although China wanted the naval base retained , Chief Secretary Sir David Ford announced that by 1992 it would be moved from its central site to make way for land reclamation . |
| 12 | The embarrassed staff related the sorry saga of how the seats had been removed to make way for cargo . |
| 13 | The exhibition was open for five weeks until 5th June , when it had to make way for models of the Wellington monument competition . |
| 14 | To make way for Klepner , Mueller 's pet poodle ? |
| 15 | Wembley has n't ruled out the possibility of removing some seating to make way for wheelchairs . |
| 16 | Manager Trevor Francis has had to drop gifted teenager Chris Bart-Williams to make way for Sheridan 's comeback from a knee operation . |
| 17 | ( Edenderry Public Elementary School , demolished to make way for Carrick Eden Grange , was built in 1888–1889 . ) |
| 18 | When in May 1940 the Commons divided on an issue of confidence in the Chamberlain government 's handling of the war , and the normal government majority was seen to have dropped significantly , Chamberlain decided to resign and to make way for Churchill , a leader more acceptable to the opposition parties . |
| 19 | Look , here they come : a duchess and her daughter , a London haberdasher who died on the eve of the Civil War , a squire whose ancestors threw people out of their houses to make way for sheep . |
| 20 | These interests were to replace traditional joint or ‘ runrig ’ tenancies by individual ones , to remove small tenants to other areas to make way for sheep farming , and to ensure the availability of cheap labour for kelp production . |
| 21 | In Sutherland alone , one third of the population was evicted ( by burning down their homes in most cases ) to make way for sheep ranching and game shooting — which ensured in their turn that the pine forests would stand little chance of regenerating . |
| 22 | Scotland eventually benefited greatly from Union with England in 1707 , but in the heyday of nineteenth-century expansion large parts of the western and northern periphery of Britain remained bitterly poor : the clearance of people to make way for sheep caused large-scale migration from the highlands and islands of Scotland , and a large part of the population of Ireland was forced to emigrate through the scarcity of food . |
| 23 | Now it is open and defenceless against the machetes which slash down the undergrowth for tinder. — when the tinder is dry the fires can be lit to burn off the remaining forest to make way for agriculture or ranching ( in many areas this ‘ slash and burn ’ forest clearance happens without first even removing the usable hardwood ) . |
| 24 | Widespread deforestation to make way for ski slopes has eroded topsoil , increasing the incidence of avalanches . |
| 25 | What did Kenyon , not a keen follower of the game , make of the decision that music will have to make way for Test Matches on Radio 3 's only waveband ? |
| 26 | It will be a real kick in the teeth for Schofield if he has to make way for Hanley again as Britain 's captain — no matter what the set-up is at Leeds . |
| 27 | Her sister Sarah , for so long the Spencer girl in the spotlight , now had to make way for Diana . |
| 28 | It was assumed that a number of serving ministers from Hun Sen 's Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP , the new name chosen in October by what had been the Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party or KPRP ) would resign to make way for representatives of the monarchist Funcinpec Party led by Sihanouk 's son Norodom Ranaridh . |
| 29 | Bain had discovered Spital Square on the brink of demolition and in spite of bursting into tears in the Mayor 's parlour , he could do nothing to stop its destruction to make way for market expansion . |
| 30 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |