Example sentences of "he [was/were] replaced by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was replaced by the safe , if decidedly dull , figure of Sir Geoffrey Howe , a diplomat not a policy-maker . |
| 2 | He was replaced by an even greater traditionalist , Edward Adeane , who also had reservations about what the Prince was doing . |
| 3 | He was replaced by the able , but less flamboyant , Harold Watkinson , who was a sound administrator and ideally suited to the task of restoring Britain 's military balance . |
| 4 | When the man 's shift was over , he was replaced by a shabby flute player . |
| 5 | He was replaced by Derek Wanless , but he remains deputy chairman . |
| 6 | He remained in this post until 1860 , when he was replaced by Marshal Vaillant and the Ministry of State was hived off to become a separate office . |
| 7 | He was replaced by General Auchinleck on 2 July . |
| 8 | Lord John Russell was Foreign Secretary for a few weeks only in Aberdeen 's Coalition Government , when on 21st February , 1853 , he was replaced by George Villiers , fourth Earl of Clarendon ( 1800–70 ) who held the post until February 1858 , in both Aberdeen 's and Palmerston 's Governments . |
| 9 | Just a few days before the launch the original pilot , Ken Mattingy , had been exposed to German measles and was found to have no immunity , He was replaced by his backup , Jack Swigert , who managed just two days prime-crew training before leaving for the Moon ! |
| 10 | However , Moreton was unable to give sufficient time to the class , and within six months , he was replaced by Edward A. Kirk . |
| 11 | He was replaced by J. S. Flett as Assistant Director in Scotland . |
| 12 | He had been the medical officer and acting medical superintendent at the Bedford Institution for 28 years ( as well as holding the post of assistant surgeon at the County Hospital from 1920 until he resigned in July 1924 , when he was replaced by Dr. W. H. Miller ) . |
| 13 | Dieter did not prove a popular leader –many thought that he had accepted the Marienburger 's money a little too readily –and he was replaced by Wilhelm III , Prince of Altdorf and Elector Count of the Reikland . |
| 14 | Earlier this year he was replaced by Louis Gerstner , former boss of RJR Nabisco . |
| 15 | He was replaced by Fernando Henrique Cardoso , the foreign minister . |
| 16 | He was replaced by a Muslim revolutionary regime dominated by a 79-year-old theologian , the Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 17 | When Khrushchev was removed in 1964 , he was replaced by Brezhnev as first secretary of the CPSU and by Kosygin as chairman of the Council of Ministers . |
| 18 | He was replaced by the deputy commander , Lt.-Col. Eduardo Herrera Hassan , who had returned from exile after the invasion . |
| 19 | He was replaced by the Prime Minister , Gen. Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , and in July 1988 the National Assembly voted to limit the President 's maximum period in office to three five-year terms . |
| 20 | He was replaced by Horacio Serpa Uribe , a former Attorney General . |
| 21 | He was replaced by the president of the National Assembly , Abdoul Azizi Ndaw . |
| 22 | He was replaced by Yuri Khristoradnov , a 61-year-old former party official from Gorky with no obvious religious connections . |
| 23 | He was replaced by Karel Havlik . |
| 24 | He was replaced by Peter Lilley , hitherto Financial Secretary to the Treasury , who at 46 became the youngest member of the Cabinet . |
| 25 | Sanni Abacha had been Chief of Army Staff , in which capacity he was replaced by Maj.-Gen. |
| 26 | Sanni Abacha had been Chief of Army Staff , in which capacity he was replaced by Maj.-Gen. |
| 27 | He was replaced by Chen Jinhua , head of the China National Petrochemical Corporation and a former vice-mayor and deputy Chinese Communist Party secretary for Shanghai . |
| 28 | He was replaced by his brother-in-law Ahmad Sulayman Abdullah . |
| 29 | He was replaced by Enrique Rossl Link , an agronomist , appointed on Oct. 22 . |
| 30 | He was replaced by Bhoe Tewarie , hitherto Minister without Portfolio , on Jan. 29 , 1990 . |