Example sentences of "place to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soup gave place to a fricassée of chicken with lemon and parsley . |
| 2 | At the end of 1987 , three years after the conference ‘ A place For All Our Children ’ , one council day centre offered a place to a child with a ‘ learning difficulty ’ . |
| 3 | It 's tragic that the Health Service is taking second place to a holiday camp . ’ |
| 4 | The limestone scars seen on the left during the ascent here give place to a moorland shelf inclined at an easier gradient which , on investigation , is found to be perforated by a line of potholes . |
| 5 | Hence it is the closed national state which afforded to capitalism its chance for development — and as long as the national state does not give place to a world empire capitalism also will endure . |
| 6 | The railway spread dissatisfaction and immorality among the poor , the place being inundated with worthless and overpaid navigators [ 'navvies ' ] ; the very appearance of the country was altered , some families left , and the rusticity of the village gave place to a London-out-of-town character . |
| 7 | The real war was waged against nettle and bramble — now there you really could persuade yourself that some malign force was at work , set upon reducing the whole place to a rank and thrusting wilderness , in which the weakest went to the wall . |
| 8 | The age barriers to college entry are now rapidly crumbling , giving place to a policy of open access — which means college admission to students of all ages who can demonstrate their capacity to benefit from study . |
| 9 | ‘ It would reduce the place to a scattering of houses . |