Example sentences of "been replaced [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Then all of a sudden my enthusiasm had been replaced with deep anxiety and apprehension for what actually lay ahead of me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In one corner we put a box where the bird could shelter , and we covered this with corrugated iron sheeting ( though it 's since been replaced with corrugated plastic ) . |
| 5 | ‘ We no longer ride in procession through the City — and of late , our servants , some of whom have served us since infancy , have all but one been replaced with surly rascals of another 's choosing . ’ |
| 6 | While I am pleased to report that this particular source has not been replaced with high-quality material , suppliers of this and other ‘ green ’ materials should be warned that I am quite prepared to give them the widest publicity they 've ever had if they try fobbing gardeners off with sub-standard goods . |
| 7 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 8 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 9 | Grandiose Soviet schemes for nuclear power have been replaced by Russian realities . |
| 10 | Anyway , by the time we reached our chambers my anger had been replaced by sheer terror at the danger we had just escaped . |
| 11 | The gin trap has been replaced by other traps which may not be as effective but which are more humane . |
| 12 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |
| 13 | 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those who have occupied the slit trenches since 6th June : Taff , the mortar team , the others who have gone and have been replaced by new faces . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | I think you 've got to do something drastic , at the end of last year a considerable number of working parties and committees were actually reduced or eliminated , and I look at education and I look at the sub- committees of education , they 've all been replaced by working parties now that meet more and more regularly . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems , long after they have been replaced by good ones . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Steel and shipbuilding have been replaced by low energy industries — electronics , microprocessors , information technology and various service industries . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The market has been replaced by centralised planning , with the planners determining which priorities should be given to output growth in various sectors . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Number crunching ’ has been replaced by instant access to easily assimilated financial management information . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Shared assumptions and values , including those about local government , have now been replaced by competing visions of Britain 's future . |