Example sentences of "and replacing [pers pn] [prep] " 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 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 . |
3 | Fifthly , rebellion , giving up the conventional goals and means and replacing them with new ones . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The company has since made a remarkable recovery by clearing out its middle management ranks and replacing them with semi-autonomous work teams . |
7 | This is entered by deleting the three Xs at the bottom of the sub-menu and replacing them with your millimetres number , in this example 30 . |
8 | She glanced round as Melissa entered , alerted by the creak of the heavy wooden door , but immediately returned to her task of removing faded blooms and replacing them with fresh ones . |
9 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
10 | Finally , at the time of writing , it is abolishing rates and replacing them by a poll tax known as the ‘ community charge ’ . |
11 | This government can not prove green credentials simply by moving Nick Ridley and replacing him with Patten , a much better public relations person , the slick following the Nick . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
14 | Last December they were instrumental in getting rid of Mr Gaidar and replacing him with one of those industrialists . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | On 12 September 1922 it issued a decree abolishing Pomgol and replacing it with Posledgol ( the Committee for the Struggle Against the Consequences of the Famine ) . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Removing a plug of turf with the planter and replacing it with a pot-grown cowslip takes seconds . |
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 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | In view of this high cost , he wondered if Members would consider omitting the residence and replacing it with the Colonial Office . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Some of the top soil is so acidic that no tree can survive and the Government has resorted to digging up the affected soil and replacing it with fresh stocks . |
27 | Scald and skin the tomatoes by placing them in a bowl , pouring boiling water over them , counting to fifteen before pouring off the hot water and replacing it with cold . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Re-covering , is the major part of an upholsterers work which means removing all the old covering and replacing it with new , this can be hand stitched or ‘ capped-on ’ according to the style . |