Example sentences of "[been] replace [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was in poor health when the latter was written , and both books reflect his increasing pessimism about international affairs ; as Edward Blishen says , ‘ the positive and determined John Dolittle has been replaced by an unhappy dreamer . ’ |
| 2 | His father had first been replaced by an elder brother , then by one teacher , then another dominating man … his younger sisters were his nieces , his older sisters more like aunts , the brothers like uncles , the cousins like brothers , the real aunts like mothers … he had many alternative worlds . |
| 3 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 4 | THANK goodness Hallowe'en is over — and what a shame that this time of superstition and harmless fun has been replaced by an imported nonsense called trick-or-treat . |
| 5 | The brown of the plains has been replaced by an underlying green , like the velvet on a stag 's antlers . |
| 6 | The unorganised relationship of one enterprise with another , through buying and selling , has to a considerable extent been replaced by an organised relationship through the ‘ controlled holding ’ of shares , ‘ participation ’ and ‘ financing ’ , which find personal expression in the ‘ Dirigenten ’ of the banks , industry , the enterprises and trusts . |