Example sentences of "instead of [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't even know the water was there , ’ said Couples , whose Augusta victory came after his tee shot to the short 12th on the final afternoon defied gravity by clinging to a near-vertical bank instead of dropping back into the lake . |
| 2 | But instead of getting on with the revolution , which Lowe believed was Wilson 's historic duty , Harold had immediately ‘ sold out ’ to the capitalists by adopting right-wing policies approved by NATO and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 3 | Instead of getting on with the business of making toilet water , he spent his time on the racecourse and worse . |
| 4 | Involvement of the valve of the aorta ( the large main artery , emerging from the heart ) , can cause this valve to become inefficient , so that instead of closing fully after each pumping beat of the heart , it remains partly open , allowing a proportion of the blood to return to the heart instead of passing on round the body . |
| 5 | His voice is high-pitched and breathless , floating in the back of the mouth , instead of pushing up from the throat and chest . |
| 6 | Instead of moving forward into the twenty first century , the Tories are moving backward us backwards with working conditions that would be more suited to the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Hunter was on about Deane not getting away from his marker enough , from corners and stuff he just sits and gets marked instead of moving out to the far post . |
| 8 | Success would encourage young people to stay in the inner city instead of moving out of the area . |
| 9 | So , instead of splashing out for the big one , we 've got a number of gorgeous jewels to give away . |
| 10 | But instead of flying straight to the hospital , the helicopter first stopped by Sadat 's residence : |
| 11 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |
| 12 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 13 | She knew that there was one compelling reason why Vitor d'Arcos should visit Praia do Carvoeiro and yet , instead of facing up to the possibility and planning a strategy , she had denied it . |
| 14 | Mungo Stone had the sensation that instead of threading on to the horizon , at any moment the ever-narrowing rails might simply come to a dead end among the trees . |
| 15 | Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well . |
| 16 | Managerial behaviour was also introverted , reacting to actors and problems stemming from within the organisation instead of looking outwards to the needs and wishes of its users . |
| 17 | Instead of acting instantly in the ‘ greater interested of the game ’ and convincing Dubroca to do the honourable thing — which would have cut short the entire argument — they tried to sweep the story under the carpet . |
| 18 | Debate centred particularly on proposals that the WEU should intensify its links with the European Communities ( EC ) , instead of acting primarily as the co-ordinating body for the European element of the NATO alliance . |
| 19 | Even where a bituminous felt layer was laid on top of the boarding , this form of construction is likely to compound problems of rainwater penetration once a gap appears in the roof covering because the water which enters , instead of draining out of the construction at the eaves , settles on the upper edges of the local slate-fixing battens , inducing rot both in them and the boarding . |
| 20 | Instead of dressing warmly for the elements , the bikers end up at the summit of popular hills dressed like Paul Weller in a Style Council video . |
| 21 | If so , she 'd ignore the remark , and instead of delving further into the subject she said , ‘ You know perfectly well that the meal was a joint effort , because you cooked the bacon . ’ |
| 22 | If instead of holding on to the property X had given the property to Y no inheritance tax will be in point provided Y farmed the property ( or X survived the gift by seven years ) but in that case there would have been no capital gains tax uplift on the death of X. |
| 23 | And then h instead of walking home from the chapel on Sunday night with my mother , he started walking home with her father . |
| 24 | Better still , instead of retreating back to the crossroads , they were going to the cover of the dark wood which ran like a bastion down the left flank of the French route to Quatre Bras . |
| 25 | Instead of crossing over to the hide as he 'd intended , he stopped in the trees by the pool . |
| 26 | Instead of returning directly to the river , she made a complete tour of the upper storey of the house . |
| 27 | Often , however , he is under such pressure to complete the project by a given date that he accepts the first feasible solution he arrives at instead of working systematically towards the optimum . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , perhaps you might allow me to go for a walk from time to time , instead of waiting around in the servants ’ hall . |
| 29 | If she had had any sense she would still be in London , planning her next social function with her friends , instead of slinking off to the south of France because she had felt claustrophobic , because she needed to formulate a way of telling her fiancé that their engagement was off . |
| 30 | Some of the larger growers , however , who could afford the investment , began to make their own Champagne instead of relying purely on the sale of grapes . |