Example sentences of "[adv] replaced by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the 1960s wearers of the old school tie probably became less evident in the boardroom and the higher reaches of management , but they were not generally replaced by an elite drawn from the new cadres of higher education . |
| 2 | He stressed that he had relinquished his deferment after only two months , thereby allowing his name to go back into the draft pool at a time when he could not have known that the draft would be shortly replaced by a lottery system . |
| 3 | This was not necessary , however , in relation to the study of the atmosphere where the earlier emphasis upon climatic classification was gradually replaced by a shift towards the understanding of the surface energy and mass exchanges especially inland over vegetated surfaces ( Hare , 1973 ) . |
| 4 | If left unploughed , these communities are eventually replaced by a Festuca rubra — Trifolium repens sward . |
| 5 | Chips were eventually replaced by a cash allowance in 1805 . |
| 6 | Every tent and attraction seemed to be playing something different , and as they wandered round , stepping over lengths of cable , one burst of song would fade only to be instantly replaced by a snatch of something different . |
| 7 | If a failure occurs while using LIFESPAN , the current displayed page is temporarily replaced by a Transaction Failure page which describes the fault and indicates what action to take ( usually to log off or consult the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 8 | As dash mounted advertisements would have spoiled the general lines of the car , they were removed , but later replaced by an advertisement board against the staircase , just above the dash . |
| 9 | The rumble that had thundered from the wheelbarrow on tarmac was now replaced by a creak as it rose , and a thump as it fell . |
| 10 | Trying so hard not to weep at the demise of the old Post Office now replaced by a kit construction for other uses , I walked robotically to the cathedral like all the other tourists . |
| 11 | The services can be similar to those of orthodox Christianity , except they are led by mediums , and the sermon is often replaced by a seance . |
| 12 | Drew became less punctual , he muffed his lines , and was often replaced by an understudy . |
| 13 | The simple premise ( 1 ) of the previous example is here replaced by a number of laws governing the behaviour of light , namely the laws of reflection and refraction of light and assertions about the dependence of the degree of refraction on colour . |
| 14 | The sense of relief that the Danes had ‘ let us all painlessly off the Maastricht hook ’ was immediately replaced by a despondency at the Government 's response . |
| 15 | These concerns partly explain the switch in policy in 1978 where first-best requirements for marginal cost pricing were partially replaced by a return to an emphasis on average costs . |
| 16 | As an individual matures , the idiom of kinship is increasingly replaced by an idiom of companionship , in which social relationships are governed by an idiom of shared activity . |
| 17 | According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film . |
| 18 | ( In Italy the foliot was sometimes replaced by a balance wheel with a similar reciprocating action . ) |