Example sentences of "and [was/were] replace [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the T-shirt stalls that usually clutter the Venice Beach Boardwalk disappeared and were replaced by quaint bookstores and outdoor caféd from the Sixties , so convincingly real that residents of the area walked into them , only to be thrown out by laughing security guards . |
| 2 | In 1848 the bridge was damaged by the artillery of Prince Windischgrätz and many of the original statues were put into the Lapidarium ( see p. 193 ) and were replaced by new statues by the Max brothers . |
| 3 | Then the ‘ Empire ’ roller bearings evidently did not live up to expectations and were replaced by plain axle boxes . |
| 4 | At this point Vice-Admiral Carden , commanding the squadron , fell ill and was replaced on 16th March by Vice-Admiral de Robeck , his second in command . |
| 5 | On Jan. 29 Domingo Cavallo , hitherto Foreign Affairs Minister , took over the Economy portfolio and was replaced at Foreign Affairs by di Tella ; González became Defence Minister . |
| 6 | He stared at her ; the murderous look had vanished and was replaced by one of sheer puzzlement . |
| 7 | Chief executive Gerald Ratner stood down as chairman last week , and was replaced by former Coats Viyella deputy chairman Jim McAdam . |
| 8 | In 1861 Howell returned to England and was replaced by two recruits from Edinburgh . |
| 9 | We estimate that since we in Grampian deliver about 1% of British babies there would have to be about 6500 extra caesarean sections in Britain each year if current practice is similar to ours and was replaced by routine elective caesarean section . |
| 10 | Jagmohan resigned as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on May 25 and was replaced by Girish Chandra Saxena , security adviser to Prime Minister V. P. Singh . |
| 11 | The tsarist police force disintegrated and was replaced by local militias . |
| 12 | Jorge Chávez Alvárez , the president of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru , resigned in late April and was replaced by German Suárez Chávez . |
| 13 | Referee Neil Midgley ( Bolton ) , who retires in a fortnight 's time , pulled a calf muscle in the first half and was replaced by senior linesman Graham Bradbury ( York . ) |
| 14 | This road was subsequently abandoned , being partly submerged by the new Loch Loyne reservoir , and was replaced by another constructed some miles to the east . |
| 15 | Qaim Ali Shah resigned as Chief Minister of Sind province on Feb. 25 and was replaced by another PPP member , Aftab Shahban Mirani . |
| 16 | However , by making use of various creative accounting techniques , for example treating expenditure as ‘ off-budget ’ , the Act failed and was replaced in 1990 by the Budget Enforcement Act which formalizes ‘ zero-sum ’ budgeting until 1995 . |