Example sentences of "[vb base] been replace by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been replaced by the L and the M series . |
| 2 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 3 | By and large they 've been replaced by computers now . |
| 4 | The latter pair have been replaced by Sheffield United 's Brian Deane and Gary Owers of Sunderland . |
| 5 | I have finished my letter and sit staring down through the orchard thinking about those who have occupied the slit trenches since 6th June : Taff , the mortar team , the others who have gone and have been replaced by new faces . |
| 6 | Many of the Officers and other ranks who landed on D-Day have been replaced by faces I have never seen before . |
| 7 | She told the junior Health Minister , Mr Roger Freeman , who was attending the fellowship 's conference in London , that since 1971 more than 50,000 mental hospital beds have been lost ; fewer than one in ten have been replaced by residential places in the community . |
| 8 | In recent years sled dogs have been replaced by snowmobiles , so now the main incentive for the whale hunt is the narwhal 's single ivory tusk . |
| 9 | Factory bonuses have been replaced by compulsory pay deductions to buy government bonds , and many enterprises say they can not buy the bonds because they no longer have any cash . |
| 10 | Generally , names of various ‘ socialist heroes ’ have been replaced by those of Polish patriots . |
| 11 | The original Warwickshire lord and his huntsmen have been replaced by groups of young Sloanes who identify the sleeping Sly as ‘ probably working-class ’ and divert themselves by ‘ messing around with his mind a bit ’ . |
| 12 | All have been replaced by younger , sexier , more brainless models , what in America have become known colloquially as ‘ trophy wives ’ . |
| 13 | They have been replaced by lawyers , academics and people with social sciences degrees . |
| 14 | Many of the elms have been replaced by Cupressus , notably the 18th fairway boundary hedge which has quickly become an effective screen and pleasing to look at . |
| 15 | Allowances such as the Married Man 's , Single Person 's and Wife 's Earned Income all reflected judgements about different family responsibilities and income requirements , The estimated cost in 1989/90 of these allowances was £26.7 million , but since April 1990 they have been replaced by Independent Taxation ( see below ) . |
| 16 | The wetlands , long regarded as wastes by generations of farmers , have been replaced by a harvest which fits the dictionary definition of ‘ waste ’ in every sense . |
| 17 | Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems , long after they have been replaced by good ones . |
| 18 | The mythical beasts on the edges of the map have been dispelled , but they have been replaced by the personal dragon of self knowledge ; how will the traveller deal with the test of physical and mental endurance and face the challenge of adventure and danger ? |
| 19 | Steel and shipbuilding have been replaced by low energy industries — electronics , microprocessors , information technology and various service industries . |
| 20 | Her descriptions tell of a village changing slowly to a motorcar age , and perhaps forecasts the future in references that smithies have been replaced by garages and advertisements for petrol from the ‘ golden pump ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The older organic links between the council , the Labour Party and the trade unions have been replaced by a much wider constituency and coalition . |
| 23 | Traditional local economic policies developed during the 1970s have been replaced by two new forms of economic strategy , labelled by observers ‘ restructuring for capital ’ and ‘ restructuring for labour ’ . |
| 24 | One Canadian official told New Scientist that scientists from the US have been replaced by ‘ people with less relevant experience , and some who have been acting as political commissars ’ . |
| 25 | Among the tortoises and turtles , the overlapping scales have been replaced by a large , thick armoured box of horn . |
| 26 | The local pit has closed and the miners have been replaced by serious athletes who wear regulation running gear and train thoroughly , sometimes all year round . |
| 27 | Drab vistas of bare streets lined with parked vehicles have been replaced by attractive and surprising views , differentiated by greenery , alternative parking arrangements and varied paving materials . |
| 28 | Any omissions are usually for quite practical reasons and here the ‘ clay dot ’ position markers have been replaced by the cleaner and harder-wearing cream plastic variety . |
| 29 | Wicked golliwogs have been replaced by goblins and Noddy does n't boss the girls . |
| 30 | But under the leadership of Neil Kinnock , whose top place was no surprise , local party stitch-ups have been replaced by ballots . |