Example sentences of "be replace [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These can be replaced with other more formal terms : " unsuccessful " , " acceptable " , " perhaps " . |
| 2 | These should be replaced with new tape , of minimum ⅜″ width , and parties should carry some 10 metres of abseil tape for this purpose on serious descents . |
| 3 | Over the next two years , familiar City and Guilds examinations and scheme numbers , such as 706/1 and 706/2 will begin to disappear and , by 1994 , will be replaced with new City and Guilds qualifications accredited as National Vocational Qualifications , with different numbers — City and Guilds 7241 , 7242 , 7243 and 7244 . |
| 4 | Other refined carbohydrates , such as white flour and white rice , like sugar , have been stripped of most of their vitamins , minerals and fibre content and should be replaced with unrefined staple foods such as listed in the Personal Food Audit . |
| 5 | It will later this week reiterate its opposition to the break-up of the two-tier structure of regions and districts which are to be replaced with single-tier councils . |
| 6 | Subsidies for production will gradually be replaced with green premium payments to promote environmentally sound management of the countryside . |
| 7 | If the court finds against the bank , its bosses might be replaced with central-bank appointees . |
| 8 | Personal computers are too fragile to cope with viruses and must be replaced with sophisticated systems which are resilient to viruses in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ The trees would stay , ’ she announced , knowing she was probably talking her way out of a job , ‘ almost all of them , and the ones that had to be taken down would be replaced with native specimens . |
| 10 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 11 | By this time the wiring was a complete write-off and had to be replaced during lengthy repairs . |
| 12 | Gandhi travelled to the state on Oct. 6 and the next day he announced that Patil would be replaced as Chief Minister within four days . |
| 13 | When it ended in the mid 1960s , to be replaced in quick succession by sociology , anthropology , and linguistic theory , it turned introspective in its defeat , wasting its energies on the grimly unavailing task of seeking , and never finding , a theoretical basis for what it did or had once done . |
| 14 | Hundreds of thousands of pounds were spent on computers and software , only for them to be replaced by new software for the council tax . |
| 15 | They 'll be replaced by new homes costing more than a million pounds . |
| 16 | And many specialist machines are to be replaced by new equipment making full use of the latest technology . |
| 17 | Indeed , almost two million square feet of industrial space was lost on the Isle of Dogs between 1981 and 1987 — mainly to be replaced by expensive residential development ( Docklands Consultative Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | The possibility of any of us having some kind of real experience is seen as having all but vanished , to be replaced by endless opportunity for witnessing things . |
| 19 | Chemically based methods of attending to disease and their toxic effects will soon be replaced by electro-magnetic therapy on a global scale . |
| 20 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
| 21 | Relatives say the care and dedication of staff at Thornton Lodge Hospital , Wensleydale , can not be replaced by alternative plans . |
| 22 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 23 | Direct democracy has tended to be replaced by representative democracy , and political parties , pressure groups and others have sought to provide the information needed by the electorate . |
| 24 | The forest , in the Digul Valley area of south-eastern Irian Jaya , is to be replaced by eucalyptus plantations , which will fuel a paper and woodchip plant . |
| 25 | It was also planned to intensify the military campaign against the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , with conscripts to be replaced by mobile commando teams in early 1992 . |
| 26 | The refined carbohydrates — white flour , rice and pasta — should be replaced by wholemeal versions . |
| 27 | In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement . |
| 28 | With luck they will be replaced by small , efficient gas-burning power stations built by new entrants to Europe 's energy business . |
| 29 | Analysis of progressions leading to dissociation ( at which point the progression breaks off to be replaced by continuous absorption ) can give us accurate values of dissociation energies for simple molecules . |
| 30 | Under the new Housing ( Scotland ) Act secure tenancies will be replaced by assured tenancies which do not give security of tenure . |