Example sentences of "replace [pers pn] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caedwalla attempted , according to Bede , to exterminate the natives and replace them with inhabitants of his own kingdom , vowing , though still a pagan , that he would give a fourth part of the island and the booty seized to the Church if he were successful . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Zoos have a good stock of the lar gibbon Hylobates lar but are low on all the others , and so the CBSG is advising zoos to get rid of their lars and replace them with species such as hoolock H. hoolock and concolor H. concolor . |
| 4 | I could throw them out and replace them with Bretons , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 5 | For older infants , who are taking some solid food , try cutting out different foods in turn , but replace them with others that are equally nutritious . |
| 6 | They too drain the vitality out of women 's tears and replace them with passivity , penance and guilt . |
| 7 | Now the summer bedding plants in tubs and window boxes are fading or frosted , chuck them out and replace them with flowers for the winter and spring . |
| 8 | For this to occur , we must first get rid of selfish desires , and replace them with desire for God . |
| 9 | We miss meals and replace them with snacks which may mean missing out on vital nutrients . |
| 10 | She writes : ‘ We can not simply shift Jesus from center-stage and replace him with humanity or God by wishing it were so . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It was supposed to wipe out that kind of thinking , and replace it with liberty , equality and brotherhood . ’ |
| 12 | The best thing to do with lead piping is to rip it all out and replace it with copper or plastic . |
| 13 | 360K system : remove Program disk 1 and replace it with Program disk 2 when prompted |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Though we continued to lose animals , we managed to replace them with ponies bought from the Arussi . |
| 16 | These have been taken down for conservation and it is hoped to replace them with copies . |
| 17 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 18 | The first thing is to expose the legends and fairy tales and to replace them with facts . |
| 19 | It has emerged that in 1980 Wallis 's second wife , Martha Hyer Wallis , took four of his paintings , replacing them with copies , to raise a $1m loan . |
| 20 | This means sacrificing the crate of export and the three pounds of reheatable madras curry in a Tupperware box , and replacing them with objects for your more immediate use , like the tent . |
| 21 | EC Agriculture Ministers agreed on Dec. 12 to eliminate all border veterinary checks on meat and meat products by Jan. 1 , 1993 , replacing them with checks at the point of origin ; on the insistence of Denmark , Ireland and the UK , however , the move would be conditional on the eradication of certain animal diseases throughout the EC . |
| 22 | EMC Corp , Hopkinton , Massachusetts has sold more than $10m-worth of 4800 Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array storage devices to Delta Air Lines , Atlanta , Georgia : Delta previously used IBM Corp kit exclusively , namely 3380s , 3880s , 3090s and 3990s , but has been replacing them with Symmetrix 4400 and 4800 systems since November 1991 ; EMC claims that 15,000 square feet of floor space has been saved as a result ; it also attests to a 50% performance improvement over cached 3380s for reservation systems running on IBM 's 3090 Model 400 , a performance increase of between 30% and 50% with Airline Control Program and a performance boost of 30% to 40% with MVS , running off Hitachi Ltd EX 100s . |
| 23 | It helps to melt away the human spirit of arrogance and wilfulness , replacing them with gratitude for God 's love and mercy . |
| 24 | The solution to the complexities of the system and the growing complexity of case law adjudication was to abolish the notion of additional allowances completely , replacing them with loans from a limited budget and no right to independent appeal . |
| 25 | Moreover , the car is hideously noisy with the hood up , and it has the effect of filtering out some of the nice engine sounds and replacing them with rattles from the differential , whines from the gearbox and banging from the suspension . |
| 26 | In a move interpreted by analysts as a concession to the right , Serrano had dismissed four key ministers , all members of the ruling Social Action Movement ( MAS ) , on April 27 , replacing them with non-politicians with business experience in the private sector . |
| 27 | A desperate Treuhand dumped 15 old-guard regional directors last year , replacing them with people from western Germany . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | With David Batty unlikely to be fit , Wilkinson must decide whether to replace him with David Rocastle or Eric Cantona . |