Example sentences of "and [was/were] replace [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the T-shirt stalls that usually clutter the Venice Beach Boardwalk disappeared and were replaced by quaint bookstores and outdoor caféd from the Sixties , so convincingly real that residents of the area walked into them , only to be thrown out by laughing security guards . |
| 2 | Trams , however , were taken off the streets of London , in 1935 , and were replaced by trolley-buses — vehicles able to run on electric power by having two arms stretching above their roof to make contact with a pair of overhead cables , instead of the single arm of the tram and the metal rails set in the carriageway of the road along which their route was arranged . |
| 3 | In 1848 the bridge was damaged by the artillery of Prince Windischgrätz and many of the original statues were put into the Lapidarium ( see p. 193 ) and were replaced by new statues by the Max brothers . |
| 4 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 5 | All the then existing councils , with the exception of parish councils in England , ceased to exist , and were replaced by the following : — |
| 6 | On making these decisions , her panic attacks stopped and were replaced by a mixture of emotions as she faced up to her fear of intimacy and commitment , and her excitement and uncertainty over becoming a mature student . |
| 7 | Soon the remaining six B-Class buses were withdrawn from the SoutherN fleet and were replaced by more ex-L.G.O.C . |
| 8 | Then the ‘ Empire ’ roller bearings evidently did not live up to expectations and were replaced by plain axle boxes . |
| 9 | In 1910 , the electric signal bells were giving trouble and were replaced by cord operated bells . |
| 10 | Fears of a national labour shortage had eased and were replaced by fears of large-scale unemployment due to the spread of ‘ automation ’ ( Bagrit 1965 ) . |
| 11 | The championships ended in 1984 and were replaced by the new Formula 3000 Championship . |
| 12 | On 11 January 1990 all three of the directors resigned and were replaced by the applicant as sole director . |
| 13 | Even sentences such as " Men exist " and " Dragons are fictional " were said to offend against certain logical proprieties and were replaced by suitably quantified paraphrases . |
| 14 | The great compressional movements of colliding plates subsided and were replaced by the vertical movements of tension and isostatic readjustment . |
| 15 | There is no surviving evidence comparable to the parish records of the seventeenth century which shows the rate of change among village inhabitants over short periods , but certainly , as we have seen ( Ch.2 ) , families died out and were replaced by others over the course of the century . |
| 16 | David Mellor was appointed Minister of State at the Privy Council Office with responsibility for the arts ; Angela Rumbold took over his previous post of Minister of State at the Home Office and was replaced as Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science by Timothy Eggar . |
| 17 | Vere Bird Jr had his appointment as a minister revoked on May 10 and was replaced as Minister of Communications and Works by Eustace Cochrane ( hitherto a Minister without Portfolio ) . |
| 18 | Khalid bin Muhammad al-Anqari took over the hitherto vacant portfolio of Higher Education , and was replaced as Minister for Municipal and Rural Affairs by Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Hasan al-Shaikh . |
| 19 | In a Cabinet reshuffle on April 1 Michael Powell was dismissed and was replaced as Deputy Prime Minister by Sydney Morris , the Minister of Education , Youth and Community Affairs , Communications , Works and Public Utilities . |
| 20 | On April 27 , George Brizan , hitherto Finance Minister , was appointed Minster of Agriculture while retaining responsibility for Trade , Industry , Production and Energy ; Tillman Thomas became the new Finance Minster and was replaced as Minister of Works , Communications and Public Utilities by the former Agriculture Minister Phinsley St Louis . |
| 21 | Before Hopkins 's committee could meet Wood died and was replaced as Chancellor by Anderson . |
| 22 | At this point Vice-Admiral Carden , commanding the squadron , fell ill and was replaced on 16th March by Vice-Admiral de Robeck , his second in command . |
| 23 | Immediately before the April 1990 general election Dimitris Angelopoulos , the chief of the National Intelligence Service , was dismissed in connection with an attempt to sabotage a television channel linked to Pasok and was replaced on April 1 by Pandelis Kalamakis . |
| 24 | Okondo resigned on Aug. 20 , and was replaced on Aug. 27 by Philip Masinde . |
| 25 | Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes resigned on Nov. 13 and was replaced on Nov. 20 by John Bruton , the party 's right-wing deputy leader . |
| 26 | After pressure from the US authorities Col. Rico Toro stepped down on March 4 and was replaced on March 14 by Gen. Elias Gutiérrez . |
| 27 | Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , the president for 11 years of the German Bundesbank ( central bank ) , retired on July 31 and was replaced on Aug. 1 by his deputy , Helmut Schlesinger . |
| 28 | On Sept. 12 Rein Otsason resigned as president of the Bank of Estonia amid allegations of fraud and incompetence , and was replaced on Sept. 23 by Siim Kallas . |
| 29 | Vadim Bakatin was dismissed as Interior Minister on Dec. 2 , 1990 , and Pugo appointed in his place ; Eduard Shevardnadze resigned on Dec. 20 as Foreign Minister and was replaced on Jan. 15 , 1991 , by Bessmertnykh ; Yanaev was elected Vice-President by the USSR supreme Soviet on Dec. 27 [ see pp. 37902-04 ] . |
| 30 | The Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance , Mohammed Khatami , resigned on July 16 and was replaced on a provisional basis by Ali Larijani . |