Example sentences of "be replaced [prep] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | even though characteristic ways of feeling and behaving are habitual , they can be controlled and , if necessary , unproductive ways of feeling and behaving can be replaced with more satisfactory ones . |
| 2 | Further , the promotional functions of the existing RAC policy would be replaced by more limited functions of monitoring and reporting developments in rural areas . |
| 3 | They must then be replaced by more consistent people . |
| 4 | Not only can up to four more engines be added to the complex but also the engines themselves can be replaced by more powerful versions . |
| 5 | At the same time it affirms that academic staff may not be dismissed for holding particular beliefs or following particular lines of inquiry , and that senior staff may not be dismissed to be replaced by more junior , and cheaper , staff . |
| 6 | If they can not be replaced by more adequate instruments , an electric keyboard can lie appropriate . |
| 7 | We have already discussed how the policy of segregating the mentally handicapped in long stay hospitals is being abandoned to be replaced by more widespread fostering in tandem with short term care , and the use of group homes in ordinary houses and ordinary streets . |
| 8 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 9 | The overambitious plans of one period will be replaced by more realistic ones ; market opportunities overlooked in one period will be exploited in the next . |
| 10 | This animated spirit , however , was less evident in Labour 's programme as the immediate postwar idealism and optimism began to be replaced by more pragmatic demands . |