Example sentences of "replace [pers pn] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 2 | They too drain the vitality out of women 's tears and replace them with passivity , penance and guilt . |
| 3 | For this to occur , we must first get rid of selfish desires , and replace them with desire for God . |
| 4 | She writes : ‘ We can not simply shift Jesus from center-stage and replace him with humanity or God by wishing it were so . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It was supposed to wipe out that kind of thinking , and replace it with liberty , equality and brotherhood . ’ |
| 6 | The best thing to do with lead piping is to rip it all out and replace it with copper or plastic . |
| 7 | 360K system : remove Program disk 1 and replace it with Program disk 2 when prompted |
| 8 | You ca n't solve one little corner , one little technical hiccup so you 'll throw a hundred years of decent work out the window and replace it with sci-fi fantasies . |
| 9 | It helps to melt away the human spirit of arrogance and wilfulness , replacing them with gratitude for God 's love and mercy . |
| 10 | There has been an undercurrent of anxiety about the hospitals for many years and lip service has been paid to the idea of replacing them with community hostels . |
| 11 | In early winter , when the first snows come , he wears socks in the boots , but when it gets cold he takes them off and replaces them with grass . |
| 12 | I 've thought of replacing him with heroin . |
| 13 | This would generate the extra revenue needed to pay the higher cost of replacing nuclear energy with biomass , compared to replacing it with fossil fuels . |
| 14 | Scald and skin the tomatoes by placing them in a bowl , pouring boiling water over them , counting to fifteen before pouring off the hot water and replacing it with cold . |
| 15 | Here , in the valleys of the Rivers Zamora and Upano , several generations of colonists had cleared much of the forest , replacing it with pasture grazed by cattle . |
| 16 | The Komsomol was to be split into republican bodies , and it was proposed to disband it , replacing it with youth wings of several parties and a non-political youth organization . |
| 17 | Although it is possible to make connections to iron pipe , it is normally considered advisable to replace it with copper or plastic when a new copper hot water cylinder and plastic water cistern are installed . |
| 18 | It would be a good opportunity to fit a gatevalve to this supply and , if the supply pipe is made from lead , to replace it with copper or plastic . |
| 19 | The simultaneous emergence of the nuclear family and housing developments which swept away streets and replaced them with tower blocks , contributed to an erosion ( and even total destruction ) of many communities . |
| 20 | It was venerated by succeeding Popes but had unfortunately been despoiled , first by the Byzantine Emperor Constans II who , in 655 removed the gilded bronze plates which covered the dome and replaced them with lead and later , in 1625 , by the Barberini Pope Urban VIII who destroyed the portico roof in order to use the bronze beams supporting it for his own building schemes . |
| 21 | THE Los Angeles Raiders , who have lost three of their first four games , yesterday fired their coach , Mike Shanahan , and replaced him with Art Shell , their offensive line coach who becomes the first black head coach in the NFL since 1926 . |
| 22 | Mr Welt sneaked about at night and removed all the wooden furniture in the school and replaced it with metal furniture . |
| 23 | In 1981 the Conservative government abolished capital transfer tax and replaced it with inheritance tax . |