Example sentences of "be replaced [prep] [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These are long-winded phrases and can often be replaced by a single word or left out without loss of meaning . |
2 | The 1980 Green Paper , The Taxation of Husband and Wife , had as a central proposal the scrapping of the married man 's allowance to be replaced by a single person 's allowance each for husband and wife . |
3 | This report stemmed from the recommendation of the Schools Council in the early 1970s that the dual examination systems of GCE and CSE should be replaced by a single system at 16 plus . |
4 | For instance , one of the signs that extremely and fast are united in a grammatical construction is the fact that the sequence extremely fast can be replaced by a single element , say , old , which has the same relationship to cars as does extremely fast ; furthermore , this substitution causes no grammatical change in the rest of the sentence . |
5 | Under the new proposals , worldwide income apportionment will be replaced by a single rule that will apply to all foreign life companies with UK branches . |
6 | separate legal rules applying differently to different types of credit transaction should be replaced by a single set of rules covering equally all forms of ‘ security interest ’ ( how lenders try to secure what is owed to them , for example , by a right to repossess what is bought with the borrowed money ) . |