Example sentences of "[be] replaced by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 1868 a new school was built but this has now been replaced by a modern and forward thinking school for five to eleven year olds . |
| 2 | The original school has been replaced by a modern one with spacious play areas , and the old one has been converted into a home for the elderly . |
| 3 | Also in the Corinthian Order , it has an almost intact peristyle of 20 columns but the entablature has been replaced by a modern roof . |
| 4 | The rest of the ground floor , occupying the Victorian extension of the main block , converted satisfactorily into a garage , boiler room and tankroom for oil storage once the existing timber floor of this section had been replaced by a concrete slab . |
| 5 | This evolutionary model has subsequently been replaced by a relativistic one ; this maintains that ‘ an observer should be careful to evaluate a culture first in terms of its own values , goals , and focuses before venturing to compare it ( either positively or negatively ) with any other culture ’ ( Kraft 1979:49 ) . |
| 6 | The bandage round her head had been replaced by a small dressing above one eyebrow . |
| 7 | On June 23 Air Marshal Anant Kalinta had been replaced by a civil servant as chairman of the state-owned Communications Authority of Thailand . |
| 8 | Seb could see the growing knot of men and the light of their torches , but now the shouting had ceased and had been replaced by a low , angry murmur . |
| 9 | system , there was a circular hole with red glass in the right hand one , the large oil lantern used at Gravesend , having been replaced by a hinged opening vent . |
| 10 | His other arm had been replaced by a damascened prosthetic of plasteel and servomotors . |
| 11 | They have been replaced by a Labour leadership keen to blame many of their problems at the Government 's door . |
| 12 | I have observed that this species can breed at sizes of little more than 1″ , but I have only seen this happen where a larger adult in my colony has died and been replaced by a young fish . |
| 13 | His memory of her , which for years , a traitor to grief and to their love , he had resolutely tried to suppress because the pain had seemed unbearable , had gradually been replaced by a boyish , romantic dream of gentleness and beauty now fixed for ever beyond the depredation of time . |
| 14 | The lip-to-lip contact had been replaced by a polite peck on the cheek and the royal couple behaved more like acquaintances than lovers . |
| 15 | Set up B shows an alternative lighting arrangement in which the floodlamp has been replaced by a simple reflector . |
| 16 | The extent to which he had refined and condensed his drawing style can be seen by comparing an early self-portrait in the Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge with that produced in 1946 ( Plate 11 ) ; the repeated , searching strokes in the former have been replaced by a confident , knowing accuracy of statement , producing a stylised likeness , brittle and poignantly self-contained . |
| 17 | Those applications have now disappeared but have been replaced by a wide range of others which utilize the material 's excellent weatherability , clarity and surface hardness — for example , automotive rear lights , lighting fittings and drawing instruments , produced by injection moulding ; and sheet and profiles , mainly for the sign , lighting and building industries , produced by extrusion . |
| 18 | They suggest that social classes have been replaced by a continuous hierarchy of unequal positions . |
| 19 | - You notice that the section of your local supermarket which has stocked picnic and barbecue material since the birth of time has suddenly disappeared and been replaced by a new section stocking wrapping paper , crackers and tinsel decorations . |
| 20 | It has now been replaced by a new colonnade . |
| 21 | The Tramway Engineer , Mr. Freddie Field , was responsible for the display , and his centre-piece was the creation of an illuminated Venetian Gondola from the remains of car 28 , which had been replaced by a new Standard car of the same number . |
| 22 | In each individual at any moment during the period of change , a similar proportion of the copies of a gene family will have been replaced by a new variant copy . |
| 23 | Most previous tax allowances have disappeared ( the single person 's allowance , wife 's earned income allowance and married man 's allowance ) and have been replaced by a new personal allowance and a new married couple 's allowance . |
| 24 | But the corrupt version has been replaced by a new , authorised kind of graft : jobs and influence in exchange for political support . |
| 25 | In line with the peace treaty , however , both should have been replaced by a new national civil police force , and the FMLN claimed that the government had deliberately withheld the necessary resources for this to be accomplished . |
| 26 | Although the credits had finished , and the picture had been replaced by a robotic continuity announcer , Cheryl 's expression had not changed . |
| 27 | Among the tortoises and turtles , the overlapping scales have been replaced by a large , thick armoured box of horn . |
| 28 | The frantic animation , the barely-suppressed hysteria , had been replaced by a languid , dopey calm . |
| 29 | The athletic arrogant and handsome monarch of 1977 had been replaced by a sick , befuddled man who had no idea what was happening . |
| 30 | English Estates was given increased funds for extending its workshop programme , and a simpler government grant system was introduced : the three existing grants have been replaced by a single ‘ city grant ’ with simpler application procedures . |