Example sentences of "to replace it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing to do when an old galvanised cistern has started to rust is to replace it with a modern plastic type . |
| 2 | His state is built on ideology ; to replace it with a more liberal system might only hasten Moscow 's nightmare — irresistible momentum towards a reunited Germany . |
| 3 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 4 | It is nothing more nor less than a determined effort by an immensely powerful bureaucracy to silence independent opinion , and to replace it with a censored , frequently biased , and increasingly bland official view of the state of British tennis today . |
| 5 | Remove a single flush socket to replace it with a larger , surface-mounted double socket . |
| 6 | The aim was , through the conjunction of good quality paper and inks , to eliminate a certain deadness and flatness inherent in the lithographic process and to replace it with a velvety depth and richness of colouring often lacking in English lithography . |
| 7 | The industrial relations problems of the docks in the 1950s and 1960s could , in the eyes of many commentators , be ascribed to the institution of casual working and the ( ultimately successful ) attempts by the trade unions to replace it with a system of regular employment for dock labourers ( see Wilson , 1972 ) . |
| 8 | He argues that a central aim of Conservatism has been ‘ to discredit the social democratic concept of universal citizenship rights , guaranteed and enforced through public agencies , and to replace it with a concept of citizenship rights achieved through property ownership and participation in markets ’ . |
| 9 | Incidentally if you have an old RLL or MFM drive it may be a better bet to replace it with a larger IDE drive , they 're usually faster and much more reliable . |
| 10 | The traditional way to prevent corrosion is to suspend a ‘ sacrificial ’ magnesium anode in the cistern ; the best solution with a corroded cold water cistern is to replace it with a new plastic one . |
| 11 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 12 | There was also controversy over the Commission 's plans to abolish the zero rating of intra-EC exports with effect from January 1993 , and to replace it with a complex system of approximation under which a central clearing house would apportion VAT payments between the countries involved in a transaction . |
| 13 | Essentially , the committee had agreed to disband COMECON altogether , and to replace it with a new body , to be known as the Organization for International Economic Co-operation ( OIEC ) . |
| 14 | However , these plans were falling out of favour and a clear opportunity existed to replace it with a product that offers a capital guarantee . |
| 15 | And the recreation committee yesterday agreed to replace it with a new wooden one costing £9,500 . |
| 16 | The first engine rolled out of the Springfield sheds on November 4 1902 , and it would have been one of the last to use the level crossing at Thompson Street because very soon the council seem to have ordered Stivvies to replace it with a bridge . |
| 17 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 18 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 19 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 20 | Demands to abandon an existing shibboleth in order to replace it with an even older one . |
| 21 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 22 | I welcome this opportunity to congratulate the Government on the Gracious Speech and on their proposal to abolish the community charge and to replace it with the council tax . |
| 23 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
| 24 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 25 | Swooping onto a reed warbler 's nest , this female cuckoo removes one of the host bird 's eggs and lays one of her own to replace it in a matter of seconds . |
| 26 | It is interesting to speculate whether the microfilm information system will come to replace it in the future . |
| 27 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 28 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 29 | These were considerations that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist government . |
| 30 | Men of genius — Dante , Leonardo , Milton , Blake , Turner , Wagner , for example — have attempted to punch holes in the box or to replace it by a stack of boxes . |