Example sentences of "[verb] [been] replace [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The market has been replaced by centralised planning , with the planners determining which priorities should be given to output growth in various sectors . |
| 2 | In schools , O level and CSE have been replaced by GCSE in England , Wales and Northern Ireland ; and O grade has been replaced by Standard grade in Scotland . |
| 3 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |
| 4 | ‘ Number crunching ’ has been replaced by instant access to easily assimilated financial management information . |
| 5 | Since the beginning of the 1990–91 session , Westminster Week has been replaced by two programmes ; the first , Out of Westminster , sets parliamentary issues in a regional context and involves local MPs from each region , and the second ,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 . |
| 6 | The gin trap has been replaced by other traps which may not be as effective but which are more humane . |
| 7 | Around 150 works , many of which previously hung in the bedrooms and bathrooms of the Thyssen homes , and have not been exhibited previously , will be hung in galleries whose pre-war Germanic museum style has been replaced by modern tones of grey . |
| 8 | The Lotus-style menu system of version 3.5 has been replaced by pull-down menus and dialogue boxes ( although if you prefer the old interface , there 's a menu option that lets you switch back ) . |
| 9 | Today , this exquisite ancient culture has been replaced by Bulgarian rock bands singing funereal versions of ‘ Amazing Grace |
| 10 | On the other hand , where there is commitment , it is often only for its own sake , and conviction has been replaced by passionate intensity . |
| 11 | Technology too has changed , the heroic inventor has been replaced by corporate r&d . |
| 12 | Fear that the use of defective vision would make it deteriorate further has been replaced by positive encouragement and training to use even severely defective sight as effectively as possible in learning and in day-to-day living . |
| 13 | If the dismissed employee has been replaced by another employee this usually means redundancy . |
| 14 | Original sin has been replaced by original goodness , and the conflicts in human society are without exception related to the economic basis of society . |
| 15 | Suburbanization , therefore , has become ‘ rurbanization ’ , and physical urbanization has been replaced by functional urbanization of the countryside ( Hall et al . |
| 16 | The rich grassland habitat of the past , which could support up to 20 species , has been replaced by pesticide-drenched monocultures which can barely support a single butterfly . |
| 17 | His Anfield insecurity , so noticeable in August and early September , has been replaced by rocketing self confidence . |
| 18 | The traditional street has been replaced in this layout by walkways within the buildings and footpaths which connect to shops , services , garages and the elevated metro stations ( Figure 3.4 ) . |
| 19 | The sober grey suit has been replaced in some instances by pink corduroys and sandals , while some interviewers were faced with female candidates in low cut dresses or transparent blouses . |
| 20 | Above all , this kind of political romanticism fosters the view that future arrangements can be attained when conflict and dispute will no longer take place , having been replaced by eternal harmony . |
| 21 | Then all of a sudden my enthusiasm had been replaced with deep anxiety and apprehension for what actually lay ahead of me . |
| 22 | The verbatim reproduction in print of the political speech was an expensive exercise which was not usually rewarded with increased sales and so , by the 1900s , the political leader and the political speech had been replaced with shortened accounts and by a flood of ‘ news ’ stories . |
| 23 | Anyway , by the time we reached our chambers my anger had been replaced by sheer terror at the danger we had just escaped . |
| 24 | The situation was also complicated by the fact that , since 1945 , much of the islands ' native population had been replaced by Soviet citizens who were opposed to any concessions towards Japanese claims of sovereignty . |
| 25 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 26 | A considerable proportion of this first generation of Peter 's representatives in western Europe were foreigners in Russian service ; but by the 1720s these had been replaced by native-born Russians . |
| 27 | Past the entrance to a farmyard rutted deep in soft mud , and he could see the slipped roofing of the barns where the fallen tiles had been replaced by corrugated iron . |
| 28 | It was only some years later , when the over-expansion he had forecast had materialised , and some of the more obscurantist leaders of the industry had been replaced by new men , that the industry came to terms with the problem ( see pp. 212–17 , below ) . |
| 29 | Stempel had been replaced by two men : John Smith is the new chief executive officer and John Smale takes over as chairman . |
| 30 | She reached out to switch on the bedhead light and realised that the blackness of night had been replaced by grey gloom . |