Example sentences of "replace [pers pn] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 2 | Instead of trying to kill house dust mites , the best things is to throw pillows away and replace them with new ones which wo n't contain any allergen . |
| 3 | Point Two : ‘ Surely anybody knows that if you take an ancient set of tubes and replace them with new tubes that are of reasonable performance , you 're going to get a hell of an improvement in sound . |
| 4 | It would dearly like ( as one railway manufacturer has proposed ) to rip the diesel engines out of an existing HST and replace them with electric engines , and then use this train for tests . |
| 5 | First we discard all the subjective labels and comments and replace them with objective descriptions of behaviour ( 3 ) . |
| 6 | The first is to strip out all the formatting on the source system and , if possible , replace them with generic codes ; [ B ] for bold on , [ b ] for bold off , etc . |
| 7 | A tower wagon was waiting at the Lower Church Street corner to remove the junction in the overhead wires as soon as the last trolleybus had passed and replace it with plain wires leading only in the Mitcham direction . |
| 8 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 9 | ‘ We are doing our best to replace them with good units , ’ King says . |
| 10 | Iran gave the impression that it believed Iraq was planning to replace them with single-buoy moorings ( SBMs ) , a subject on which rumour had been rife since 1980 . |
| 11 | Fifthly , rebellion , giving up the conventional goals and means and replacing them with new ones . |
| 12 | Family and guests could be heard playing charades and blindman 's buff in the drawing room , and Mr Priddy snuffed out the candles , replacing them with new ones ready for tea at about ten in the evening when the table would again be laden with sweetmeats and delicacies . |
| 13 | The government ordered the dismissal of nearly all 3,000 of its customs inspectors in early December , replacing them with new recruits , in an effort to reduce bribery and corruption and improve efficiency . |
| 14 | Historical research has thus proved more successful in demolishing old myths and theories about the relationship between crime and social change than it has in replacing them with sustainable generalizations . |
| 15 | Having got rid of his shirts in this way , he was reduced to replacing them with crude garments made out of sacking . |
| 16 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 17 | She glanced round as Melissa entered , alerted by the creak of the heavy wooden door , but immediately returned to her task of removing faded blooms and replacing them with fresh ones . |
| 18 | Ryes and rye-wheat hybrids are sometimes prone to ergot — a fungus disease that destroys the individual grains and replaces them with black spores which look like mouse droppings . |
| 19 | THE cost of dismantling the present system of local government and replacing it with single-tier councils is likely to become a vitally important issue now that the Scottish Office has admitted that its consultants , Touche Ross , appear to have got their sums wrong . |
| 20 | This respondent was also concerned about the failure of social workers to work for rehabilitation , stating , ‘ There are lots of social workers who think it quite appropriate to take a child away from dodgy natural parents and work avidly towards replacing it with adoptive ones . ’ |
| 21 | Kosovo was in favour of democratic centralism , Morina said , and against replacing it with multiparty elections , since pluralism would lead to dangerous divisions between nationalities . |
| 22 | The most sophisticated cooks use lemon grass whole or coarsely cut when preparing the stock for a soup or sauce and remove it when the dish is almost complete , replacing it with fine slices to focus and refresh the flavour . |
| 23 | Some of the top soil is so acidic that no tree can survive and the Government has resorted to digging up the affected soil and replacing it with fresh stocks . |
| 24 | When we have a £6 million food and drink deficit , it is no use reducing Scottish production to replace it with cheap imports form eastern Europe . |