Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Instead of riding in the Fun Minister 's Rover limousine , he climbed into a C-reg VW Golf . |
| 4 | For these and other reasons more useful information about molecular structures can be obtained by photoelectron spectroscopy , where the excited electron is ejected completely instead of remaining in a higher-energy level of the molecule . |
| 5 | A deal of debate centred around her decision to defend her title in the English Girls ' Championship at Edgbaston instead of playing in the British Women 's Open at Ferndown . |