Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of counting the squares all you have to do is multiply the length by the width ! |
| 2 | Instead of staying the requisite two years I came home after just nine months . |
| 3 | The changes made are quite subtle — instead of using the Windows internal print routines to access and control the printer ports directly , Windows hands control of the ports back to good old steam-powered DOS , which takes care of it . |
| 4 | However , as we are using incremental change instead of wiping the slate clean and trying to move to a new system , we are avoiding huge extra costs at one fell swoop and also avoiding creating a system in which there would be many losers as well as gainers at the point of change . |
| 5 | Said Pat : ‘ That would be Kenneth 's way of doing a Christian act , let that boy get home in safety , instead of roaming the streets homeless . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah but its , you got ta try and give them instead of putting the law first , not |
| 7 | ( Incidentally , if Mary had thought , she would have slipped in a personal note instead of conveying the message secondhand through someone else . ) |
| 8 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 9 | John McGee was building an extension on to the back of his Middlesbrough home but instead of making the foundations six feet deep , they were just five inches below the surface . |