Example sentences of "have [be] replaced [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the great storm of October 1987 , many of the original trees in that avenue were uprooted but they have been replaced with young lime trees . |
| 2 | Many ofthe 2.5 million rivets have been renewed , and parts of the ironwork have been replaced in recent years-authenticated chunks of the original were sold off to the public as highly-priced souvenirs . |
| 3 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 4 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 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those who have occupied the slit trenches since 6th June : Taff , the mortar team , the others who have gone and have been replaced by new faces .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| 6 | The local pit has closed and the miners have been replaced by serious athletes who wear regulation running gear and train thoroughly , sometimes all year round . |
| 7 | Old-fashioned notions that a woman 's anatomy , through her capacity to bear children , determined the shape of her entire life have been replaced by complex debates as to how different social structures have interacted to produce the variety of patterns of gender relations which are to be found across different societies and over time . |
| 8 | Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems , long after they have been replaced by good ones . |
| 9 | Factory bonuses have been replaced by compulsory pay deductions to buy government bonds , and many enterprises say they can not buy the bonds because they no longer have any cash .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| 10 | Thankfully , the days-of big cork gazettes have gone and these have been replaced by various slim shaped sliders which offer the pike less resistance . |
| 11 | Steel and shipbuilding have been replaced by low energy industries — electronics , microprocessors , information technology and various service industries . |
| 12 | Grandiose Soviet schemes for nuclear power have been replaced by Russian realities . |
| 13 | Drab vistas of bare streets lined with parked vehicles have been replaced by attractive and surprising views , differentiated by greenery , alternative parking arrangements and varied paving materials . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On the way back to my office through the gallery I see that the art deco figures have disappeared and have been replaced by enormous canvases of contemporary art . |
| 16 | After half a century , gas power has returned to The National Trust 's Dunster Castle , near Minehead — but this time carbide gas and coal gas have been replaced by natural gas and a sophisticated energy efficient system , which creates the perfect balance of warmth and humidity to preserve both the fabric and the valuable contents of the castle . |
| 17 | Since her death , the trustees have gone public — anonymous gifts have been replaced by open ones in memory of the three sisters . |
| 18 | The once razor sharp blades have been replaced by wooden ones tipped with rubber . |
| 19 | Even the water taps have been replaced by electromagnetic sensors which spring into action when a hand is waved within 100 mm of the sensor . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Protective labour laws have been replaced by anti-union legislation . |
| 22 | The continuous spectrum of the last diagram indicates that periodic fluctuations have been replaced by chaotic ones . |
| 23 | Victorian paternalism and welfare state democracy have been replaced by Tory populism . |