Example sentences of "[verb] been replace by " in BNC.
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| 1 | More probably , however , even the final figures will show large declines — the most telling possible proof of how the exhilaration of being able to read almost anything has been replaced by disillusion at being able to buy almost nothing . |
| 2 | This has been replaced by an increase in the number of mortar shells exploding in the part of the orchard nearest to the road . |
| 3 | Mrs C W Crawford has retired from the post of Administrator at Richard Peck House and has been replaced by Mrs A Mulvey . |
| 4 | Mr W I Paterson has retired as the North Western Area Director and has been replaced by Mr D M MacInnes . |
| 5 | but the nervous mark of this humorous poem 's immature irony has been replaced by the much more horrific denial of the meaning of the action of the ritual |
| 6 | The traditional post-war argument between different kinds of interventionism has been replaced by a much broader debate . |
| 7 | Outside the birdsong has been replaced by the sound of a military band marching up the road . |
| 8 | The business of manhandling sacks has been replaced by automation , the grain being conveyed mechanically or pneumatically direct to the mill . |
| 9 | Appetite has been replaced by anxiety ; bread by kapok , Stilton by soap . |
| 10 | Organisers of the Tenerife Open failed to make the requisite telephone call by 10am yesterday morning to tell tour officials that they could raise the money , so it has been replaced by the Atlantic Open at Estela , near Oporto , from February 15-18 . |
| 11 | As a result , the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit . |
| 12 | Now the standard pto has been replaced by a beefier home-made version . |
| 13 | Observers believe the confusion may have arisen because the original KGB ceased to exist as on January 1 and has been replaced by two separate agencies , both of which entered into negotiations to sell the files . |
| 14 | Since then , communist countries across Europe have found their freedom and Mrs Thatcher has been replaced by Mr Major and his vision of a kinder Britain . |
| 15 | Since the beginning of the 1990–91 session , Westminster Week has been replaced by two programmes ; the first , Out of Westminster , sets parliamentary issues in a regional context and involves local MPs from each region , and the second , called Scrutiny , deals with the work of parliamentary committees . |
| 16 | ( Moss 1989a ) A view of all-powerful texts exerting ideological effects on a vulnerable readership has been replaced by a more complex understanding of the relationship between text and reader in which texts appear more contradictory and readers able to answer back . |
| 17 | However , it has been replaced by Friesians for milk and is now bred more for beef . |
| 18 | Three benefits have been replaced by an entirely new set of conditions and considerations : supplementary benefit has been replaced by income support ; family income supplement by family credit ; and single payment by the social fund . |
| 19 | First , in the earlier period there were wide margins of discretion within an extremely informal mode of policing — the proverbial clip around the ear , or the dreaded flick of the Edwardian policemen 's rolled cape — which has been replaced by the more likely possibility of prosecution , or the issue of formal caution . |
| 20 | The cluttered informality of the Edwardian local police station with its rudimentary procedures for record-keeping has been replaced by elaborate computer-assisted systems of information retrieval . |
| 21 | In the mythology of modern soccer , the ‘ scout ’ , an expert in a shabby raincoat has been replaced by the more avaricious figure of the ‘ agent ’ , the character with the car-phone who along with the club chairman has become the financial ‘ Lucifer ’ of football . |
| 22 | In the UK , the concept of the administrator has been replaced by the term business manager and the directors are , again , nearly all doctors but not exclusively . |
| 23 | The almost exclusive concentration on the formal political process has been replaced by accounts that take in crucial determinants outside this sphere , and which are placed in an explanatory framework that allows links to be made with wider sets of social relations . |
| 24 | The single , large , all-embracing , annually printed guide , covering all aspects of the library service , has largely disappeared , and has been replaced by a variety of new formats . |
| 25 | The abolition of the old 75 percent grant system for adaptations to privately owned homes has been replaced by the bureaucratic nightmare on the new system which has dramatically decimated the number of grants made to enable us to live in our own homes . |
| 26 | The late 19th century parterre has been replaced by the sweeping vistas of lawns and landscape shown in Repton 's designs of the 1800s . |
| 27 | Commodity circulation has been replaced by the circulation of products within the national economy , in much the same manner as products circulate within an oligopoly or conglomerate firm . |
| 28 | The harsh , brittle sound of the old black discs , always a considerable drawback , has been replaced by a wholly revitalised and much more flattering aural image , enabling us to fully appreciate what remains a classic of the gramophone . |
| 29 | Variety has been replaced by uniformity , the unexpected by predictability . |
| 30 | Today , this exquisite ancient culture has been replaced by Bulgarian rock bands singing funereal versions of ‘ Amazing Grace |