Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When did you last , after such a hug , instead of taking your partner to bed , take him or her by the hand and walk into the garden ? |
| 2 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 3 | That sounds very big and important , and what 's happening , your business starts sliding down , because you 're getting involved in something that you 're not yet ready for , instead of establishing your business in a market in which you are good at . |
| 4 | The animal research establishment would do well to get its own house in order instead of parading its failures before a public that still wants to believe in salvation through medical science . |
| 5 | Instead of comparing their offer with the normal rate , Clydesdale have used the business rate — paid by guests who stay mid-week and do n't expect to book and pay in advance . |
| 6 | Instead of impressing its customers with the ease and convenience of , say , Microsoft 's ‘ Word ’ word-processing program , the company hopes to wow them with the way that ‘ Word ’ can incorporate charts or query a remote database for the latest sales figures . |
| 7 | Instead of centring his analyses on the knowledge derived from the experience of the subject , Foucault investigates the conditions of emergence of the subject as the basis of knowledge ; he argues that at the same time as it was widely proposed as the one saving good of human civilization it also facilitated a more sinister operation . |
| 8 | ‘ Instead of using my camera to simply record reality , I use it to improve reality . |
| 9 | I wait to see how long you can control your imbecile temptation to violate my copyrights on this letter and once again untruthfully take words and phrases from it to show your ‘ powers ’ to match those boasted by your kind in the NF and the BNP , whose performances are different from yours only in that instead of using your limbs to physically assault us like they would , you have acted by wearing the ‘ civilised ’ guise of being the ‘ editor ’ of the ‘ left ’ NewSS , and have written to assail my integrity , my capacity to think , my freedom to defend and speak for my constitutionally organised members at the Stratford school . |
| 10 | Instead of brushing your hair after setting which can cause splitting , gently run your fingers through it to create tousled waves . |
| 11 | In the preceding ‘ organisation chain' B and C might pool their authority to make a decision affecting their common area of work , or affecting subordinates D , E and F , instead of referring their problem to A. Management conferences are an example of attempts to exchange ideas and reach collective decisions on the basis of pooled authority . |
| 12 | In May 200 struck on the Orlov-Vitebsk line on this account , declaring that instead of devoting its energy to extracting gold from the churches , the government should find ways of paying them better . |
| 13 | Instead of inching his way into new sorties , new lives , he takes what he needs from earlier ones . |
| 14 | The women are shutting themselves off , choosing the high that comes from writing instead of accepting their place as bearers and nurturers of children . |
| 15 | Instead of putting their money into business , people lent it to the government in the hope that ERNIE ( the nickname of the Electronic Random Number Indicator ) would select their number for the top prize ( then ) of a modest £1,000 . |
| 16 | PASSIONATE songs and groovy diversions and a voice that cracks and soars and makes you aware of the rich possibilities of your lot , instead of burying your feelings in a horrible , orthodox genre . |
| 17 | But may I politely suggest that in future they beat their meat in the privacy of their own studio instead of soiling our evening with such toss ? |
| 18 | Instead of reducing their exposure to Brazil , for example , after the second oil shock in 1979 , some US banks who had already lent 100 per cent or more of their capital to Mexico and Brazil , actually increased their exposure . |
| 19 | But the recession has meant the studios are cutting back , so instead of keeping his planes on the ground , he 's making his own flying thriller . |
| 20 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West , the Opposition spokesman in this debate , wishes to intervene instead of shaking his head in dismay , I shall give way to him . |
| 21 | In concrete terms this means that people entering the workforce in recent decades , and especially since the early 1970s , have increasingly taken jobs in banks , offices , shops , restaurants , schools , hospitals and other service enterprises instead of following their parents into working in factories . |
| 22 | Well fortunately the Spanish were even more incompetent than he was and what the Spanish commander , instead of rubbing his hands at the prospect of er the damage they were about to wreak , he discovered that they had the wrong calibre shells for their guns and Roosevelt and the Rough Riders overran the Spanish guns a and Teddy Roosevelt became a war hero and on the strength of becoming a war hero , he become vice president of the United States , got the vice presidential nomination and in good American fashion the president was shot er by an assassin er and Teddy Roosevelt became president , so there you are , there 's a there 's a career plan for you to er to think about . |
| 23 | Glancing to his left , he wondered why the Bogeyman chose to live in a room on the first-floor landing instead of making his lair in the cellar , where he would surely feel more at home . |
| 24 | * Instead of rinsing your pasta after cooking , drain it and put in a serving dish or back in the saucepan , then add a few knobs of soft butter . |
| 25 | INSTEAD of blaming her woes on Bill Wyman , Mandy Smith should examine her motives for marrying him . |
| 26 | Instead of claiming it year by year , you just fill in a form when you apply for your mortgage . |
| 27 | Instead of flicking my eyes toward the exit door , I shook my head no . |
| 28 | He can see what the bitter outcome can be , but instead of washing his hands of the affair , he doggedly and morbidly follows the Carbone 's situation to its tragic resolution . |