Example sentences of "[vb pp] instead of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 2,500 mining jobs , and twice as many again in related industries , would be lost if Hinkley C was built instead of a coal station , it calculated . |
| 2 | Across the way in the main hall dominated by Renault and Peugeot/Citroen was Activa II , a big handsome XM coupe built just for show , but thought to be the type of car BMW should have built instead of the 850i . |
| 3 | If that nose had pleased the gods as it pleased Caesar and Antony , a loose Alexandrian gnosticism might have prevailed instead of the Christian discipline imposed by the two Romes , the old one on the Tiber , and the new one on the Bosporus . |
| 4 | He divided the errors collected into three categories : substitution errors ( where an incorrect lexical item is produced instead of the target ) ; loss errors ( where a speaker fails to produce any lexical item ) ; and addition errors ( where a speaker produces more lexical items than intended ) . |
| 5 | House bricks can be used instead of dumb-bells and a plank on bricks can be used instead of a bench . |
| 6 | This type of patterning is often used instead of a hem for jacket edgings and cuffs . |
| 7 | A paper bag ( not polythene ) may be used instead of a hand mask if one is handy . |
| 8 | On some canals a pair of donkeys might be used instead of a horse . |
| 9 | Strips stuck on skirting boards or used instead of a cornice between ceiling and walls can greatly expand the sense of space for very little cost . |
| 10 | The court ruled that a 101-year-old treaty with the USA could be used instead of a 1979 treaty which had been declared unconstitutional in June 1987 [ see p. 35756 ] . |
| 11 | * Remember that a semicolon can be used instead of a full stop , but a comma normally can not ( see p. 125 ) . |
| 12 | Lighting our houses , workplaces and public buildings may account for over 10GW of power at peak time — this could be cut by 75 per cent if new fluorescent lamps were used instead of the incandescent light bulb . |
| 13 | Smoked streaky bacon can be used instead of the chops . |
| 14 | The word demises is used instead of the more popular lets . |
| 15 | Firstly , some fancy edgings which can be used instead of the usual welt . |
| 16 | When the model-calculated ozone was used instead of the climatological values ( Fig. 1b ) there was little change . |
| 17 | The reader might like to check that , if the second and third digits are used instead of the third and fourth , there will be seven synonyms instead of eight ( 00 , 01 , 01 , 04 , 09 , 12 , 12 ) . |
| 18 | Thus the Poisson distribution can safely be used instead of the binomial for files of this size . |
| 19 | However , for practices with skewed age-sex demography the deviation from family health services authority averages was different when the Newcastle prescribing index was used instead of the prescribing unit . |
| 20 | In more detail , cacheing utilities are capable of amassing copies of data from frequently accessed areas of the hard disk , which are used instead of the disk versions — and they do n't have to be contiguous ( though if they are , things get faster still ) . |
| 21 | These can be used instead of the time- consuming pulling down of menus but do n't try to learn them — you will soon pickup the ones that you need . |
| 22 | If you prefer , white almond paste could be used instead of the fondant — it is just as pliable , but does give a harder finish and added flavour . |
| 23 | It seemed that we auditioned all the local misfits and no-hopers and we eventually even used backing taped instead of a bassist , but it was n't comfortable . |
| 24 | People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books . |
| 25 | The third method , grafting , is similar to budding and differs in that a short section of wood with more than one eye is enjoined instead of a single bud . |
| 26 | For this reason , a small array of accumulators ( typically a power of two , such as 8 or 16 ) may be provided instead of a single accumulator . |
| 27 | This means that only four notes in each octave are wanted instead of the normal seven , yet all seven must be accounted for to make the glissando possible . |
| 28 | If the plaintiff so desires and the proper officer so allows , the summons itself may be prepared by the plaintiff in which case a copy must be filed instead of a request . |
| 29 | Where abbreviated accounts are filed with the Registrar of Companies , a special auditors ' report should be filed instead of the report on the full accounts . |
| 30 | A report may be filed instead of an affidavit by the official receiver or trustee ( r 7.9 ) . |