Example sentences of "and replacing [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 2 | This has the effect of eliminating from our daily lives all those negative influences , problems and restrictions and replacing them with the seeds of positive plans , happiness and an expansive and creative mind . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 4 | Finally , at the time of writing , it is abolishing rates and replacing them by a poll tax known as the ‘ community charge ’ . |
| 5 | He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man . |
| 6 | With the election due on Oct. 27 , the latest date allowed by the Constitution , the party took a final desperate gamble by persuading Palmer to resign in September [ see pp. 37716-17 ] and replacing him with the more dynamic Mike Moore . |
| 7 | Experienced PC users can deal with the Trojan by using software tools to make the new Autoexec.Bat file visible and read/write , before deleting and replacing it with a correct version . |
| 8 | Removing a plug of turf with the planter and replacing it with a pot-grown cowslip takes seconds . |
| 9 | We will fight terrorism by every lawful means , repealing the counter-productive Prevention of Terrorism Act and replacing it with a measure which is more effective and genuinely acceptable in a democratic society . |
| 10 | By the way , the ‘ box ’ had a had a hole in it ; disconnecting it from the air intake manifold and replacing it with a blank plug seems to have solved our original problem with no immediately apparent side-effects . |
| 11 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 12 | The reactive species thus formed will ‘ insert ’ into a carbon-hydrogen bond — breaking the original bond and replacing it with a carbon-metal and a carbon-hydrogen bond . |
| 13 | The Second World War set back Stalin 's hopes of completely rebuilding Moscow and replacing it with a new Soviet city , centrally planned and co-ordinated like the economy . |
| 14 | As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net . |
| 15 | It is therefore investigating ways of updating its membership system and replacing it with a more sophisticated means of holding members ' names , addresses and other information , the idea being that in future members receive only what interests them . |
| 16 | A letter from G. Espin to Councillor Fraser re the waste of public money in erecting a new wire fence on the footpath between Baberton Mains Estate and Juniper Green and in a few days ripping it out and replacing it with a chestnut type wooden fence . |
| 17 | Should , for any reason , a sheet become damaged in service it is simple to replace a Rockwell sheet by unscrewing the damaged sheet and replacing it with a new one . |
| 18 | In RENFE , collective bargaining over the past decade or so has basically been a process of dismantling the framework of Francoist labour regulation and replacing it with a series of negotiated agreements . |
| 19 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 20 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 21 | In view of this high cost , he wondered if Members would consider omitting the residence and replacing it with the Colonial Office . |
| 22 | In animals , the term is also used for the technique of inactivating the nucleus of an egg and replacing it with the nucleus of a body cell . |
| 23 | In practice a few frogs have been produced by killing the egg nucleus by ultraviolet irradiation , and replacing it with the nucleus from a cell of the gut of a tadpole . |
| 24 | The Conservatives successfully mounted a campaign which linked welfare scroungers , individualism , anti-collectivism , breaking the dependency culture and replacing it with the enterprise culture , trade unionists as criminals , moral decline , the need for personal responsibility and personal discipline . |
| 25 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 26 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 27 | I believe that the public want us to get on with abolishing the community charge and replacing it with the council tax . |
| 28 | Now the new pope , Innocent , was escorted to the front of the basilica where on a platform in full view of the people , he was crowned with the tiara , the senior deacon ( i.e. the archdeacon ) removing the mitre from the pope 's head and replacing it with the tiara . |
| 29 | After a quick wash she dragged on an old pair of jeans and an equally ancient navy sweater before emptying the bucket and replacing it on the dresser . |
| 30 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |