Example sentences of "instead [prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of moving forward into the twenty first century , the Tories are moving backward us backwards with working conditions that would be more suited to the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | But instead of flying straight to the hospital , the helicopter first stopped by Sadat 's residence : |
| 3 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |
| 4 | Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well . |
| 5 | Managerial behaviour was also introverted , reacting to actors and problems stemming from within the organisation instead of looking outwards to the needs and wishes of its users . |
| 6 | Instead of acting instantly in the ‘ greater interested of the game ’ and convincing Dubroca to do the honourable thing — which would have cut short the entire argument — they tried to sweep the story under the carpet . |
| 7 | Debate centred particularly on proposals that the WEU should intensify its links with the European Communities ( EC ) , instead of acting primarily as the co-ordinating body for the European element of the NATO alliance . |
| 8 | Instead of dressing warmly for the elements , the bikers end up at the summit of popular hills dressed like Paul Weller in a Style Council video . |
| 9 | If so , she 'd ignore the remark , and instead of delving further into the subject she said , ‘ You know perfectly well that the meal was a joint effort , because you cooked the bacon . ’ |
| 10 | And then h instead of walking home from the chapel on Sunday night with my mother , he started walking home with her father . |
| 11 | Instead of returning directly to the river , she made a complete tour of the upper storey of the house . |
| 12 | Often , however , he is under such pressure to complete the project by a given date that he accepts the first feasible solution he arrives at instead of working systematically towards the optimum . |
| 13 | Some of the larger growers , however , who could afford the investment , began to make their own Champagne instead of relying purely on the sale of grapes . |
| 14 | Instead of going closer to the nest and finding the genuinely helpless nestlings , the killer followed the apparently helpless adult bird . |
| 15 | The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville . |
| 16 | So , instead of going straight for the big one , we decided to build up our acclimatisation by first visiting some of Kenya 's other mountains . |
| 17 | Calming myself I took it page by page , instead of going straight to the Rrap as I usually do . |
| 18 | Instead of going straight to the front desk as usual , Charlie guided her towards the restaurant . |
| 19 | Instead of going directly to the academy 's institutes , much of it is now awarded to projects by committees representing science and industry . |
| 20 | Instead of reverting automatically to the universal European scholarly tongue of Latin , they were gaining a new confidence in the language of their own people . |
| 21 | Steps built out in front of retaining walls may look better if they 're ‘ returned ’ : the sides are built out on each step , to form rectangular , curved or rounded ends , filling in all or part of the space up to the retaining wall , so that each step continues round instead of ending abruptly at the side . |
| 22 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 23 | Instead of turning left towards the village they carried on to the right . |
| 24 | But then , urged on as it were by a series of multiple lightning flashes , it hesitated no more and , instead of increasing gradually from the first tentative shower , the water gushed forth in a vast fountain . |
| 25 | Conflicting reports on Oct. 23 suggested , however , that Schiphol air traffic controllers had in fact erred in advising the pilot to circle Amsterdam instead of heading directly for the airport before making an emergency landing . |
| 26 | It had left him with a feeling of self-satisfaction , a sense of having done something instead of standing helplessly in the shadows , aching with humiliation and guilty knowledge . |
| 27 | The egg in the mixture makes it stay put , instead of running all over the place as most cheese mixtures do . |
| 28 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 29 | … she jumps out of the car and runs ; instead of running efficiently for the fortress like the others , she ‘ ran not looking where she was going ’ and consequently tripped and fell . |
| 30 | On the journey back into town Merrill deliberately froze out all thoughts of the past hour and its momentous revelation , concentrating instead on driving meticulously through the heavy rain . |