Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of ripening into an edible delight , the emotion begins to rot and decay , and eventually its poison spreads throughout our body , often re-emerging as illness and disease . |
| 2 | Kahnweiler in Der Weg zum Kubismus is probably echoing conversations with Braque when he writes : ‘ Representation of the position of objects in space is done as follows : instead of beginning from a supposed foreground and going on from there to give an illusion of depth by means of perspective , the painter begins from a definite and clearly defined background . |
| 3 | In the past year , unemployment has risen by a massive 47 per cent. , but instead of rising by a similar amount , expenditure in 1991-92 will be 10 per cent . |
| 4 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 5 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 6 | Instead of moving against the British they disappeared into the jungle and their Bogyoke announced , ‘ We are now at war ’ — at war with Japan . |
| 7 | When we look at each of the small group " scenes " we can accord them much higher status ; instead of commenting on the changing position of the door handle , we can discuss which moments from each of the " interviews " we will keep in the documentary ; we have an informing context in which to discuss what each of the interviewees said . |
| 8 | He continues , ‘ Instead of reaching for the brown sauce , my book suggests deglazing the meat juice with water to rediscover the taste of real food ; the same goes for the taste of real vanilla rather than vanilla flavouring ; and the taste and simplicity of pan-fried fish with a dash of lime juice . ’ |
| 9 | It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do . |
| 10 | Instead of switching to the next phases to be excited are , which enables the motor to develop maximum negative torque at that position . |
| 11 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 12 | Soon you will find that you are taking more time to act , instead of reacting with an habitual response . |
| 13 | Virtually anything is possible here and , for a relaxing change of pace , it is worthwhile hunting out a slow boat instead of sticking to a frenetic dash in the fast lane . |
| 14 | Instead of operating with a deflated matrix , we operate on the original matrix A ( or a part of it ) with a column vector from which all contributions from x1 have been " swept " away . |
| 15 | Instead of profiting from the enormous interest in gambling on football results through the ‘ pools ’ system , the FA 's puritanism led to a futile and absurd confrontation in 1936 , which involved the withholding of fixture lists to frustrate the pools companies . |
| 16 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 17 | Instead of resulting from a successful use of pressure by a group on a reluctant government , the relationship derives from the government 's need for specialized information which the group possesses and its co-operation in the eventual implementation of policy . |
| 18 | In the first place , instead of searching for the long-term consequences of early family experiences , a switch has taken place to the study of immediate effects . |
| 19 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 20 | He will try to lead the discussion , this time , instead of acting as a mere facilitator , but he could find himself shouted down or boycotted . |
| 21 | However , the evidence from Pittsburgh indicates that the community group , instead of acting as an oppositional force , has been brought more emphatically within the institutional orbit , both through the mechanisms for consultation and as it becomes formally integrated into local policy making . |
| 22 | Thus , from a letter of 1867 : " most philologists lack that elevating total view of antiquity , because they stand too close to the picture and investigate a patch of paint , instead of gazing at the big , bold brushstrokes of the whole painting and — what 's more — enjoying them … " ; and " … our whole mode of working is quite horrible . |
| 23 | As you improve , instead of riding in a straight line along a wave you start manoeuvring by footsteering on the wave just as surfers do . |
| 24 | Instead of riding in the Fun Minister 's Rover limousine , he climbed into a C-reg VW Golf . |
| 25 | That 's why I 'm still walking around , instead of resting under a shady tree waiting for Connie Fraser to join me . ’ |
| 26 | Indeed , instead of starting from the misleading contrast between ‘ material ’ and ‘ cultural ’ , we have to define two areas for analysis : first , the relations between these material means and the social forms within which they are used ( this is of course a general problem in social analysis , but the discussion is limited , here , to cultural means and forms ) ; and , second , the relations between these material means and social forms and the specific ( artistic ) forms which are a manifest cultural production ( these will be discussed in the succeeding chapters ) . |
| 27 | TAKING a brisk walk instead of retreating to a darkened room may be the best way of coping with migraine and other bad headaches , according to a leading pain doctor . |
| 28 | Instead of landing on a sandy beach stretching some way inland , the men were trapped on a rocky shore north and south of the craggy headland of Ari Burnu . |
| 29 | Instead of worrying about the marginal impact the Directive will have in Britain , the Government should be actively supporting it and thus helping establish stronger conservation safeguards in the rest of Europe , " said Dr Simon Lyster , WWF Senior Conservation Officer . |
| 30 | Instead of fleeing to a safe place and hiding away there with complete body concealment , the animal takes up a semi-hidden position from which it can remain watchful . |