Example sentences of "[noun] to replace the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-month changeout programme to replace the old Spectra-Tek meters with a new Daniels 2508 flow measurement system started last month . |
| 2 | An agreement to do so was signed in February 1950 , just over a month after the breakdown of the second attempt to replace the 1943 Quebec Agreement . |
| 3 | A new Baldwin electronic organ was bought for £6800 to replace the original Compton organ installed in 1954 at a cost of £1150 . |
| 4 | He came on after 51 minutes to replace the injured Francis , then was hauled off 11 minutes from the end in favour of Nigel Pearson . |
| 5 | Plans to recreate an ancient woodland to replace the 800-year-old Oxleas Wood in south-east London , due to be cut in two by a six-lane motorway , were described as " absurd " during a court action brought by protesters attempting to stop the road plan . |
| 6 | Amidst all the conservative demands for legislative restrictions on what the agency might support , President Bush selected Frohnmayer as the new NEA chairman to replace the Reagan-appointee Frank Hodsoll , who had wisely departed some months earlier for the more peaceful climes of a top job at the Office of Management and Budget , the White House department concerned with enforcing its fiscal policies on an often recalcitrant federal establishment . |
| 7 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 8 | The major recommendation of the former came to fruition : the establishment of an enlarged Greater London Council to replace the old London County Council . |
| 9 | Because of the ten-year lead time involved in planning and commissioning new stations , thought is already being given to the eventual need to replace the remaining Hunterston plant . |
| 10 | At the time ASEAN was created in August 1967 Soviet officials had been anticipating an American attempt to construct a broader alliance to replace the decrepit SEATO . |
| 11 | NEW Preston boss John Beck will seek Football League permission to sign a goalkeeper on loan to replace the injured Simon Farnworth . |
| 12 | Arriving at IHM earlier in the year was G–HAUL , the sole Westland TT300 , built in 1986 to participate in an RAF competition , for a tactical helicopter to replace the ageing Wessex and Puma . |
| 13 | The weapons were FA-MAS 5.56mm assault rifles , recently issued to the French Armed Forces to replace the old FSA ( Fusil Semi-Automatique ) which had been in service since Algeria . |
| 14 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 15 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 16 | The new constitution is expected to provide for elections to replace the non-party NRC elected in February 1989 . |
| 17 | In Madrid , the new government of General Prim was equally aware that their actions would need to avoid giving offence to France and that this was particularly the case when it came to choosing a new monarch to replace the dethroned Isabella . |