Example sentences of "have been replaced [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lay Observer has been replaced with a Legal Services Ombudsman with rather wider powers than the Law Observer under provisions contained in Part II of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 2 | The right hand colour choice box has disappeared and has been replaced with a new palette box that contains all the colours in the palette displayed . |
| 3 | But the corrupt version has been replaced by a new , authorised kind of graft : jobs and influence in exchange for political support . |
| 4 | The original school has been replaced by a modern one with spacious play areas , and the old one has been converted into a home for the elderly . |
| 5 | Also in the Corinthian Order , it has an almost intact peristyle of 20 columns but the entablature has been replaced by a modern roof . |
| 6 | Set up B shows an alternative lighting arrangement in which the floodlamp has been replaced by a simple reflector . |
| 7 | Class consciousness means that false class consciousness has been replaced by a full awareness of the true situation , by a realization of the nature of exploitation . |
| 8 | The wet spell has been replaced by a cold , dry front which will last until at least the New Year . |
| 9 | In the DCS200 , the film has been replaced by a single CCD ( Charged Coupled Device ) chip . |
| 10 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 11 | But he was in poor health when the latter was written , and both books reflect his increasing pessimism about international affairs ; as Edward Blishen says , ‘ the positive and determined John Dolittle has been replaced by an unhappy dreamer . ’ |
| 12 | THANK goodness Hallowe'en is over — and what a shame that this time of superstition and harmless fun has been replaced by an imported nonsense called trick-or-treat . |
| 13 | The brown of the plains has been replaced by an underlying green , like the velvet on a stag 's antlers . |
| 14 | In each individual at any moment during the period of change , a similar proportion of the copies of a gene family will have been replaced by a new variant copy . |
| 15 | In line with the peace treaty , however , both should have been replaced by a new national civil police force , and the FMLN claimed that the government had deliberately withheld the necessary resources for this to be accomplished . |
| 16 | system , there was a circular hole with red glass in the right hand one , the large oil lantern used at Gravesend , having been replaced by a hinged opening vent . |
| 17 | The buttons of her cardigan were correctly done up and the collar flattened neatly , the zip of the skirt was in its proper place at the side and her tattered bedroom slippers had been replaced with a tidy pair of court shoes , the wrong colour for the skirt . |
| 18 | Mr Major said the community charge , as he preferred to call it , had been replaced with a new property-based system which contained improvements that were never in the old rating system . |
| 19 | His other arm had been replaced by a damascened prosthetic of plasteel and servomotors . |
| 20 | The bandage round her head had been replaced by a small dressing above one eyebrow . |
| 21 | The rest of the ground floor , occupying the Victorian extension of the main block , converted satisfactorily into a garage , boiler room and tankroom for oil storage once the existing timber floor of this section had been replaced by a concrete slab . |
| 22 | The Tramway Engineer , Mr. Freddie Field , was responsible for the display , and his centre-piece was the creation of an illuminated Venetian Gondola from the remains of car 28 , which had been replaced by a new Standard car of the same number . |
| 23 | On June 23 Air Marshal Anant Kalinta had been replaced by a civil servant as chairman of the state-owned Communications Authority of Thailand . |
| 24 | The lip-to-lip contact had been replaced by a polite peck on the cheek and the royal couple behaved more like acquaintances than lovers . |
| 25 | Seb could see the growing knot of men and the light of their torches , but now the shouting had ceased and had been replaced by a low , angry murmur . |
| 26 | Although the credits had finished , and the picture had been replaced by a robotic continuity announcer , Cheryl 's expression had not changed . |
| 27 | Offa 's still rather distant control had been replaced by a permanent Mercian royal presence . |
| 28 | President Doku Zavgayev had resigned on Sept. 7 and the Supreme Soviet had been replaced by a provisional 13-member Supreme Council . |
| 29 | The frantic animation , the barely-suppressed hysteria , had been replaced by a languid , dopey calm . |
| 30 | The athletic arrogant and handsome monarch of 1977 had been replaced by a sick , befuddled man who had no idea what was happening . |