Example sentences of "instead of [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 2 | The importance of persuading individuals to save for their own pension instead of just relying on the State has been recognised by successive governments . |
| 3 | So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful . |
| 4 | Instead of immediately heading for the ocean , as they are genetically programmed to do , they headed inland , and all perished . |
| 5 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 6 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 7 | Instead of now referring to the child as something for us to share , Sarah started saying it was hers . |
| 8 | But he had felt that he was still the same Mark Underwood , drearily going through the motions of belief instead of drearily going through the motions of disbelief ; that the searing , galvanic experience men called conversion was like an unexploded bomb ticking away inside him . |
| 9 | The heroes of both these plays arrive upon the scene in a dramatic manner — adventurously entering through a window instead of prosaically walking in the door . |