Example sentences of "instead [prep] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , instead of being played for visual comedy , as when the stewardess in 2001 walks through a half circle to exit upside down , still carrying her tray unspilt ( done by imperceptibly turning the camera 180° in the opposite direction as she walks in a treadmill ) , it 's a drama with wry comedy overtones as the nervous Curnow is supported by his braver Soviet oppo , Brailovsky ( Elya Baskin ) — a sequence largely performed by the actors themselves on wires . |
| 2 | Instead of being guided by any ambition to oversee a national cultural mission , the disciplinary impulse was directed towards establishing English as a humane profession . |
| 3 | His coach had been parked out of sight while his white saddle horse had been tethered to a post at the roadside so that the passing soldiers would think their Emperor was riding to war instead of being carried in upholstered comfort . |
| 4 | Another problem that has beset the RMCs is that , instead of being financed from special , earmarked central or regional funds , they have had to derive the necessary resources from the parent institutions . |
| 5 | Industry was able to move forward , instead of being pulled in opposite directions at once . |
| 6 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 7 | In doing that , instead of being distributed on those two factors , it 's all distributed using S S A. |