Example sentences of "substitute for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Geoffrey Shaw , for Mrs Sutcliffe , said she would be willing to accept whatever damages figure the court substituted for the £600,000 award . |
| 2 | A spade should be substituted for the heart on the car sticker . |
| 3 | Here too she must offer a sin offering and a burnt offering as atonement , preferably a young lamb and a turtledove , although a second turtledove can be substituted for the lamb for poor women ( Lev . |
| 4 | Some versions substituted for the front pair a .5 Browning heavy machine gun , and some jeeps had a single Vickers fitted in such a way that the driver could operate it . |
| 5 | If the deep anaphor can be assigned a suitable interpretation from a content-based representation it does not matter , at least as far as a considered judgement of acceptability is concerned , if the previous expression of that content does not parallel the one that would have to be substituted for the anaphor to make a full second clause . |
| 6 | As for Tour 1 with an enhanced tour of the local area substituted for the visit to the training stables . |
| 7 | The word allow may often be substituted for the words think of — try both and note the different effects on the body . |
| 8 | In the layout of the fielding positions you can , of course , do your own thin ; a piece of 3mm ply , may be substituted for the hardboard and the various fielding points ( and the scores or penalties associated with them ) can be moved around to please yourself . |
| 9 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 10 | I would recommend , nevertheless , to improve the efficiency of this part of the filter that Siporax filter material is substituted for the Hexnodes as Siporax provides a much greater surface area for the same volume . |
| 11 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 12 | This is because they are fundamentally ‘ you and me ’ poems , and any You or any Me can be substituted for the personae . |
| 13 | An AST spokeswoman claimed Manhattan 's architecture incorporates a processor-independent design that would allow unspecified RISC chips to be substituted for the Intel Corp 50MHz 80486DX microprocessors that will kick off the line . |
| 14 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 15 | Rumours that Gaunt had designs on the crown were flying about , and it was alleged that he was a changeling , a butcher 's son , substituted for the queen 's own son who had been smothered at birth . |
| 16 | Dr McNab now ordered the stimulants to be decreased gradually from day to day , meat and beer from the stores being substituted for the brandy and beef tea . |
| 17 | For instance , the equality ( a — b ) ( c — d ) = ac + bd -ad -bc , acceptable to everyone whenever a , b , c , d were whole numbers with b less than a and d less than c , appeared to remain valid when particular irrational or complex numbers were substituted for the letters . |
| 18 | At this stage , perhaps because she is unfamiliar with how the words look , she has substituted for the correct letters something which sounds all right but is inaccurate . |
| 19 | Finally , let unc be the unit matrix with the element unc substituted for the unit in the i , ith position . |
| 20 | TASK 5 was similar to TASK 4 but lots of class preparation was substituted for the individualised re-drafting process . |
| 21 | In the 1830's this moderate liberal finally substituted for the omnicompetent Council of Castille a ‘ modern ’ Ministry of the Interior and a Supreme Court . |
| 22 | Because of more elaborate film-printing techniques and finer-grained film stocks , board or even canvas may be used instead of glass and a black or white silhouette substituted for the clear glass area — though glass still provides a uniquely flat , untextured and rigid surface . |
| 23 | The Court had come to the conclusion , making allowance for the fact that both men had had to face the prospect of punishment twice , that sentences of three years should be substituted for the sentences imposed . |
| 24 | A new section 69(1) was substituted for the original subsection by section 14(3) of the Housing and Planning Act 1986 . |
| 25 | He did so on two grounds : first , that the document had not been duly executed in accordance with the requirements of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 , as substituted for the original section by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ; and , secondly , that the deceased lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 26 | This led in due course to the enactment of a new code which was substituted for the relevant sections of the Act of 1972 by the Transport Act 1981 and is now found , without material alteration , in the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 27 | ‘ But the authorities make it quite clear … that before the constable is in a position to choose between a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine on the defendant 's claim that one or other specimens should be substituted for the specimen of breath , the defendant must be made aware not merely that he can have the breath specimen substituted by some other specimen in general terms , but that the alternative specimen can be one either of blood or of urine , although in the last resort , subject to the proviso to subsection ( 4 ) as to medical practitioners , the choice is that of the police officer . |
| 28 | A strong rosemary infusion ( 1 tbls ) well whipped in , can be substituted for the dried herb . |
| 29 | Kimura found an advantage for the left field in this task as also when geometric forms were substituted for the dots . |
| 30 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |