Example sentences of "replace [art] present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owners of 150 distilleries have now agreed to sell power to the state electricity companies , and estimate that by replacing the present steam turbines with gas turbines they can increase their output from 200 MW to 3,000 MW in 15 years . |
| 2 | To avoid such a catastrophe they offer IBM a 12 point set of minimum recommendations , which include replacing the present leadership with ‘ technically current ’ managers and board members raided from younger companies , be tougher on salaries and golden handshakes , slow investment on traditional systems , give its semiconductor business complete perestroika , stop losing money on PCs or stop making them , and commercialise more of its research . |
| 3 | A multi-circuit pylon capable of carrying the existing line and the new cable and therefore replacing the present line rather than adding to it could also be considered for parts of the route . |
| 4 | It replaces the present system , where appeals are dealt with by the Department , with less than 10 made each year . |
| 5 | Indeed , far from destroying the agreement between the ANC and the government of President F.W. de Klerk on the broad shape of a power-sharing future , the Hani murder may have brought closer the date of the election for a constitutional assembly to replace the present parliament . |
| 6 | The parish council acknowledge the need to replace the present structure but have not yet considered the details . ’ |
| 7 | Aside from the logistics of creating new books and materials to replace the present South African-produced materials , there will have to be a major push to upgrade and retrain teachers . |
| 8 | The accused , who included some army officers , had faced charges in connection with what the authorities claimed had been a plot to assassinate President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali by shooting down his plane , as part of an armed uprising to replace the present government with an Islamic one . |
| 9 | In addition , there were fears that , if undertakings made during a takeover bid could be put aside subsequently , then there would be calls to replace the present takeover system , based to a great extent on a voluntary code of conduct and self-regulation , by a statutory system . |
| 10 | The first , and urgent , question relates to the administrative and financial arrangements that should replace the present system under which four separate bodies produce the clean feed from the two Houses of Parliament ( HOCBUL and the Operator for the Commons Chamber , CCTV for Commons Committees and the BBC and ITN jointly for the Lord ) . |
| 11 | This would replace the present Lord Chancellor 's Department which administers a very substantial budget , but which is not directly accountable to the House of Commons . |
| 12 | It might completely replace the present office desk with slips of paper and pencils , though of course library research ( unless by then databases had expanded dramatically ) and rough drafting would still be done by hand . |
| 13 | It will replace the present tearoom , clearing the way for later development in the Palace . |