Example sentences of "and had to be replaced [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By this time the wiring was a complete write-off and had to be replaced during lengthy repairs .
2 For many Conservative MPs the message seemed all too clear : Mrs Thatcher was now an electoral liability and had to be replaced before the next election .
3 He , and others like him , were answered by Rousseau , who argues that the social contract which established private property was really the origin of exploitation and had to be replaced by a new social contract .
4 But this sophisticated attempt to deal with exhibitor resistance to British films was ruled illegal by the US Justice Department in 1946 and had to be replaced by a less ambitious system , in which Rank 's films were sold on their merits .
5 Even the original factory chimney was designed as an Egyptian obelisk , though this subsequently cracked and had to be replaced by something rather more conventionally Victorian .
6 But by the time they were back in Hollywood to do interiors at Paramount Studios , she deteriorated and had to be replaced by Elizabeth Taylor .
7 Notre Dame in Paris suffered greatly in the Revolution of 1789 when much of its sculpture was badly damaged and had to be replaced by Viollet-le-Duc and others .
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