Example sentences of "replaced by " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were located , in Fraser 's early life , amid the flatlands , and the privileged high ground , of Southern England , and , in Glasser 's , amid the antique squalor and grimness of the Gorbals district of Glasgow , now erased by developers and replaced by the squalor of the high-rise estate . |
| 2 | The emergence of a new pro-capitalist party in the South from the end of 1985 , the Progressive Democratic Party , might show the extent to which political divisions based on the treaty and within the nationalist component of hegemony may have become problematic , to be partially replaced by an even more explicit concern with increasing the popular wealth and prosperity . |
| 3 | The inappropriate implementation of the ‘ theme ’ doctrine has now , though , been replaced by equally disturbing challenges to the integrity of the historic pub . |
| 4 | The actual machine is replaceable , as are the programs which run on it — but your data is unique and can not simply be replaced by the local computer shop . |
| 5 | All steps in corridors were replaced by ramps so that now wheelchair users can gain access to any part of the Town Hall . |
| 6 | And even as the unlamented Official Secrets Act of 1911 groaned in its death throes in the late 1980s ( to be replaced by an even more constraining measure ) , officers about to retire in West Mercia were presented with an official force form and asked to sign a ‘ Declaration ’ under the Act . |
| 7 | As a result , the uniform ‘ polises ’ often complain that ‘ the quality of prig has been forsaken to be replaced by quantity ’ . |
| 8 | Last year the pests were replaced by harmless , pretty creatures who loved my city oasis of colour and scent . |
| 9 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 10 | They showed , for instance , that if you look at someone saying ‘ ga ’ on a piece of film with the sound being removed and replaced by the sound ‘ ba ’ , then subjects will actually report hearing the sound ‘ da ’ . |
| 11 | When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names . |
| 12 | That the principle of pleasure is sacrificed to the principle of endurance and eroticism and sensuality replaced by sudden repressed explosions of rage and abandon . |
| 13 | Once training is underway the glycogen is gradually removed from the muscles to produce energy and is replaced by blood , that is the muscles are ‘ pumped ’ . |
| 14 | Soon the pole-lathe bodgers will be replaced by bodgers powered by compressed air . |
| 15 | Copal varnishes have now mainly been replaced by polyurethane and alkyd varnishes . |
| 16 | In April 1992 , for people disabled before the age of 65 Attendance Allowance will be replaced by a new benefit — the ‘ Disability Living Allowance ’ . |
| 17 | In March 1991 the Government announced that the community charge will be replaced by a new system of local tax . |
| 18 | The West Country 's joy at being able to combine quality and tradition in the shape of brand-new brown-and-cream-liveried bus-based four-wheeled diesel units for local branch services turned to dismay when their long wheelbase caused ear-splitting squeals on tight curves , and they had to be rapidly replaced by the thirty-year-old DMUs they had supplanted , fortunately not yet scrapped . |
| 19 | Severn Tunnel yard went in October 1987 , and Margam Hump yard closed on 31 October 1988 , being replaced by the new 18 road Knuckle yard to cater for the huge growth in steel business , most of which travels in block trams . |
| 20 | In decline almost since they were built , the North London line 's BR-design Class 501s peacefully passed into oblivion , replaced by Class 313 dual-voltage units borrowed from the Great Northern . |
| 21 | Coming from a country where the use of the appropriate word is more important than a gesture in daily life , both choreographers have resolved that words must be replaced by gestures within the choreographic design . |
| 22 | In the late 1960s , the cloudy , rustic version began to be replaced by the filtered type , sometimes identified as Kristall . |
| 23 | There is an emerging belief that the study of ‘ literature as literature ’ needs to be replaced by , or incorporated into , a form of cultural studies . |
| 24 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
| 25 | No one believes the TPLF can take the capital , but their continuing success could persuade senior army officers that President Mengistu should be replaced by someone who can stop the war and negotiate . |
| 26 | The abstract talk of commuting by rail or road being replaced by information technology finds a concrete expression in the idea of telecottages . |
| 27 | The virtues born during the millennia of delusion before everybody saw the importance and inevitability of becoming American will be replaced by ‘ economic calculations , the endless solving of technical problems , environmental concerns and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The illusion that China is our enemy , ’ he argues , ‘ must be replaced by the reality that on the fundamental questions of Hong Kong 's peace and prosperity , China 's interest coincides with that of Hong Kong . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Livingstone was replaced by John Prescott , the transport spokesman , who came third and said he would work for organisational and campaigning reforms in the party . |
| 30 | When French politicians achieve a certain dignity and experience , and lose a certain up-to-dateness , off they go to the Senate , where the marble floors of the National Assembly are replaced by thick carpets ( softer when they fall over ) and where the young are kept firmly in their place . |