Example sentences of "instead of [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of swearing allegiance to the Queen , members of the armed forces and new citizens will pledge their loyalty to Australia . |
| 2 | Instead of taking Barnsley to the cleaners , it was Swindon who went in the washtub and were all but scrubbed out . |
| 3 | For instance , instead of sending work to the paint shop to be painted , the painters were in many cases permanently located at points where work was sufficiently finished . |
| 4 | An extracode is an instruction which has a normal instruction format , but attempted execution of which causes an interrupt to be taken into the supervisor , instead of causing execution by the hardware . |
| 5 | WHAT WE ‘ post ’ feminists need are more men like Tony who are prepared to stand up in their men 's self-help groups — instead of wasting space on the semen-stained women 's page — and acknowledge together that they are basically ‘ sacks of scum ’ . |
| 6 | Instead of allocating resources in the most efficient way there is a list of priorities . |
| 7 | It encouraged them to form good personal relationships with them instead of seeing children in the mass , differentiated only into those who can and those who wo n't . |
| 8 | Instead of keeping watch on the street , he was giving directions to a young woman tourist . |
| 9 | Perhaps instead of asking questions about the neighbours , you can yourself be the old person who lives next door : I know you 're very busy [ acknowledging and supporting what they 're already doing ] but I wonder if you could help me ? |
| 10 | Instead of following Thérèse down the road that led to the centre of the village , out again , and so , eventually , to the Martin farm , she went in the other direction . |
| 11 | That evening , instead of having dinner at the house , Fritz and I went to the little hotel in the town of Zenda where I had stayed before . |
| 12 | But instead of relating Bourani to the ordinary world , the distant ship seemed only to emphasize its hiddenness , its secrecy . |
| 13 | It differs in just one step : Instead of add C to the back of OPEN it reads : add C to the front of OPEN |
| 14 | I had rooms in college that year , so instead of turning east along the High I carried on down Magpie Lane and round the corner into Merton Street , taking care over the cobbles , treacherous when wet . |