Example sentences of "[was/were] replaced by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were replaced by a chilling mental picture of Edmund as she had last seen him . |
| 2 | It is the evaluators ' opinion that a greater flexibility in the number and size of grants would be desirable and that this might be achieved if the standard awards were replaced by a sliding scale with lower and upper limits . |
| 3 | Second , local business rates were replaced by a uniform business rate , a single tax rate nationwide . |
| 4 | They were replaced by a local bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie associated with the ascendant manufacturing and commercial sectors , while rural labour gave way to industrial labour . |
| 5 | The championships ended in 1984 and were replaced by the new Formula 3000 Championship . |
| 6 | Sadly this interesting proposal was lost by the casting vote of the St. Annes Mayor , and the blue cars were replaced by the blue buses seen today , now operated by Fylde Transport . |
| 7 | All the then existing councils , with the exception of parish councils in England , ceased to exist , and were replaced by the following : — |
| 8 | Once the text had been divided into sentences the words and punctuation were replaced by the corresponding grammatical code(s) from the OALDCE . |
| 9 | By the autumn of 1935 the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission ( and Hector Charlesworth ) were replaced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a Director-General brought over from London in the person of W.E . |
| 10 | It may be noted that these acts were replaced by the Supreme Court of judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 , which has itself now been replaced by the Supreme Court Act 1981 and by certain provisions in the Limitation Act 1980 ( consolidating earlier Limitation Acts ) . |
| 11 | As a consequence , the Dip.AD and the Higher Diplomas in Art and in Design were replaced by the appropriate CNAA awards , but with no change required in entry qualifications . |
| 12 | Even the staircases were replaced by the direct quarter-turn pattern , necessitating a rearrangement of the upper deck seating and stair hand-rails . |
| 13 | The great compressional movements of colliding plates subsided and were replaced by the vertical movements of tension and isostatic readjustment . |
| 14 | In the late 1640s , the pre-civil war church was officially proscribed , and its liturgical ceremonies were replaced by the starker services of the Presbyterian Directory of Public Worship . |
| 15 | As control families were traced through their general practitioner with the facilities offered by the central register , families who emigrated before the study began ( five ) and those whose current family health services authority was not recorded ( five ) or incorrectly recorded ( 11 ) were replaced by the next eligible control in the series . |
| 16 | The rest of the class suffered its demise in the winter of 1934 when they were replaced by the streamlined double-deckers as part of Manager Walter Luff 's modernisation of the tramway. 59 was spared and sent for storage to Fleetwood depot , following a valedictory tribute in the Evening Gazette : ‘ They were clumsy , awkward and dangerous , but they were Blackpool 's own trams , and there was nothing like them anywhere else . |
| 17 | The leading case on the requirement of reasonableness arose , not under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , but under the earlier provisions of the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 which were replaced by the 1977 Act . |
| 18 | The pain , agony and exhaustion were replaced by an enormous sense of achievement and relief as they crossed the finishing line . |
| 19 | Herbert Mies ( party chairman since 1973 , who had been re-elected unopposed in early 1989 — see p. 36497 ) had announced his resignation in October 1989 , and was replaced by a four-person council comprising Helga Rosenberg , Rolf Priemer , Heinz Stehr ( all members of the former presidium ) together with Anna Frohnweiler . |
| 20 | When the man 's shift was over , he was replaced by a shabby flute player . |
| 21 | This was replaced by a second Romanesque cathedral in 1097 which , in turn , was largely demolished when the present Gothic cathedral took its place ( 558 ) . |
| 22 | The chilliness in Blanche 's feet and hands was replaced by a pulsating warmth as her mind raced with the implications of what Urquhart had told her . |
| 23 | The only site so far fully examined , at Mera ( Ecuador ) , seems to show that there was a minimum temperature depression of 4°C between 35 000 and 26 000 years BP when the forest was replaced by a moist forest with Andean elements , implying forest descent of at least 700 m , the pollen spectrum there being unlike any in modern Amazonia ; there are , for example , high percentages of alder ( Alnus , Betulaceae ) pollen . |
| 24 | On the opening of the Supreme Soviet session on June 17 , 5,000 protesters demonstrated outside the parliament building , forcing the postponement of the planned session , which was replaced by a closed debate on the situation . |
| 25 | He was replaced by a Muslim revolutionary regime dominated by a 79-year-old theologian , the Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 26 | At Ipoh , the capital of the state of Perak , an early station was replaced by a stuccoed structure , quite different from that of Kuala Lumpur , with prominent quoins , powerful arches , and three levels of verandas , surmounted by balustrading and a dome . |
| 27 | The wooden bridge over the river was destroyed but shortly afterwards was replaced by a similar structure . |
| 28 | The Ransome was replaced by a small Black and Decker in orange plastic , ( secondhand , naturally ) — hardly a classic of the engineer 's craft . |
| 29 | These envisaged peace on four conditions : if the Russian protectorate over the Danubian Principalities was replaced by a European guarantee ; if Russian control of the mouth of the Danube came to an end ; if the Straits Convention of 1841 was revised in the interests of the European balance of power ; and if the protection of Ottoman Christians by Russia was replaced by the collective protection of Europe 's five Great Powers . |
| 30 | The first changes were brought about by war damage ; for example , the ‘ Gloster ’ public house was destroyed and was replaced by a new building bearing the name ‘ Gloucester ’ in full . |