Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to replace the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It should not only be retained but given the go-ahead for further development , involving new advanced PWRs to replace the aging Magnoxes . |
| 2 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 3 | This new element in the village population also tends to create new dimensions of social conflict to replace the rural class antagonisms of the occupational community . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Negotiations were to continue on a further facility to replace the existing one when it expired in October . |
| 6 | Expensive new capital projects were under consideration including a vast new British Library to replace the Georgian splendour of the British Museum . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The uniform in which he was frequently photographed was made from material privately purchased by his German friends to replace the ill-fitting civilian suit with which the very tall general was issued on his arrival in Germany . |
| 9 | The Michigan statute creates a crime of criminal sexual conduct to replace the old offence of carnal knowledge . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was also necessary to fabricate and fit a new rotating cowl to replace the louvred terminal which was missing from the apex of the south-east roundel . |
| 12 | Once it was easy to attract hi-tech business to replace the shut down railworks . |
| 13 | From October , the group will have a new chief executive to replace the old one , who retired last August . |
| 14 | KELLOGG 'S : Physician Dr John Kellogg wanted to develop an easy-to-digest breakfast to replace the heavy meal normally taken in 1870 's America . |
| 15 | In recent years , particularly in the US , there have been numerous experiments with new organisational shapes to replace the omnipresent pyramid . |
| 16 | There is now a conscious attempt to replace the unmarked masculine form he in English with forms such as s/he , he or she , and him or her . |
| 17 | Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s . |
| 18 | But in the following year William Whitehead , a poet laureate , defends the village of Nuneham Courtenay ( possibly one origin of Goldsmith 's Auburn ) , built in the previous decade to replace the old , which stood much too close to Lord Harcourt 's new Palladian mansion : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Behind the creation stood the familiar figure of Lloyd George who in the previous December had formed a coalition with himself as Prime Minister to replace the previous government of Herbert Asquith which had become discredited by criticisms of its conduct of the war . |
| 21 | I mean , there 's no fun in sitting there saying ‘ we 're not going to be able to do Bloxham Primary School to replace the temporary buildings they 've had there for nineteen years ’ ; that gives nobody any joy , but in terms of priorities , it was one that was felt er did not have that prior , the same priority as some of the others . |
| 22 | The clean coal project , he said , was to have a five-year timetable to replace the original 10-year timescale . |
| 23 | With new rolling stock to replace the unreliable and grubby 1950s locomotive-drawn carriages it now has a fleet of trains to equal the comforts of InterCity . |
| 24 | With new rolling stock to replace the unreliable and grubby 1950s locomotive-drawn carriages it now has a fleet of trains to equal the comforts of InterCity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 27 | The provision of specialty neurosciences services is recommended through the creation and development of 6 centres to replace the 11 that exist in south-east England . |
| 28 | These include : abolishing VAT tax on energy efficient products ; introducing an energy labelling scheme ; and establishing a powerful independent agency to replace the ineffective Energy Efficiency Office . |
| 29 | At the heart of neo-Fordism is the development of flexible specialization to replace the rigid assembly-line system of production . |
| 30 | The accused , who included some army officers , had faced charges in connection with what the authorities claimed had been a plot to assassinate President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali by shooting down his plane , as part of an armed uprising to replace the present government with an Islamic one . |