Example sentences of "replace [prep] a [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They usually moan when the engine is low on oil or if the oil relief valve plunger spring has gone weak This is mounted on the top of the oil cooler between the union and the pipe Removing the spring and replacing with a new one or sometimes stretching the spring cures the groaning noise Whilst the groan sounds awful it is not actually detrimental to the operation of the vehicle |
| 2 | When this happens , there is a scientific revolution and the old paradigm is replaced with a new one . |
| 3 | It was immediately removed with a snare and replaced with a new one . |
| 4 | When a vigorous secondary fermentation begins to die down the soft peg is replaced with a hard one to keep the gas inside the cask , which gives the beer a natural sparkle in the glass . |
| 5 | Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache . |
| 6 | The two guarded processes can thus be replaced with a single one , where the process is one which nondeterministically chooses between the original pair . |
| 7 | The old beam engine was replaced with a newer one which could , with or without the aid of the water wheels , be coupled up to run a dynamo . |
| 8 | Almost all politicians thought Giuliano Amato 's scandal-battered four-party coalition had to be replaced by a broader-based one . |
| 9 | The original school has been replaced by a modern one with spacious play areas , and the old one has been converted into a home for the elderly . |
| 10 | If a collective ethic is replaced by a personal one , we are not left a landscape without virtue . |
| 11 | After several cycles , the mediocre blade will be replaced by a better one . |
| 12 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 13 | The growth in the level of state intervention witnessed in the second half of the twentieth century , particularly in relation to the management of the economy , has led some social scientists to argue that a pluralist model of the capitalist state needs to be replaced by a corporatist one . |
| 14 | This evolutionary model has subsequently been replaced by a relativistic one ; this maintains that ‘ an observer should be careful to evaluate a culture first in terms of its own values , goals , and focuses before venturing to compare it ( either positively or negatively ) with any other culture ’ ( Kraft 1979:49 ) . |
| 15 | Within seconds the brightly coloured cloth had been whipped away , to be replaced by a fresh one . |
| 16 | The way in which an older pattern of Dissent was replaced by a newer one as a result of the Evangelical Revival is examined in my article , ‘ The Pattern of Nonconformity in South Yorkshire , 1660–1851 ’ , Northern History , Vlll ( 1973 ) , pp. 86–118 . |
| 17 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 18 | Just as enclosures divided the countryside with hedges , so toll gates divided its roads and a communal institution was replaced by a cash-based one . |
| 19 | The Labour government lost office in 1951 , however , to be replaced by a Conservative one , and with this change came a different approach to economic policy which included the revival of monetary methods of control — in particular the manipulation of bank rate and associated interest rates . |