Example sentences of "instead [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A variant would partly ’ privatise ’ social security by cutting benefits ( and payroll taxes ) and getting workers instead to invest in private pension funds . |
| 2 | This led to a constructive discussion in which the employee volunteered to give up his supervisory role and instead concentrate on other activities at which he was better and actually preferred . |
| 3 | Nithard 's statement that they waited , as agreed , until 8 a.m. before joining battle , has been rejected by some modern historians , who think that Charles and Louis instead swooped before 8 on Lothar 's sleeping camp . |
| 4 | On a day-to-day basis , the market is instead dominated by short-term capital movements in search of quick profits or a hedge against exchange risks . |
| 5 | In many respects we have wasted the last 40 years by our failure to address these problems , preferring instead to concentrate on short-term , electorally convenient policies . |
| 6 | It 's clearly destructive to your game if your attempt to gain distance instead results in sliced and topped shots . |
| 7 | But Wrexham MP Dr John Marek claims that the full potential of the site will be realised far more quickly if it is instead transferred into public ownership . |
| 8 | He backed himself , tried to loft Tufnell into the wide open spaces down the ground , but instead miscued to extra cover . |
| 9 | For example , one year the Government stopped printing money and instead resorted to issuing cheques valid for 90 days . |
| 10 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 11 | Most delegates instead called for stronger efforts towards integration in such areas as energy policy , environmental policy and protection of human rights , and for a concept of Europe which included neutral and reformist Eastern European countries . |
| 12 | If a group does not have a lot of money , it may instead call upon public sympathy to sustain its views in the policy-making process . |
| 13 | The suprabasal cells have lost adhesion to the matrix and instead adhere to similar cells on all sides . |
| 14 | The other side to the critique , again a common one in the UK , is that public agencies by no means serve the public interest alone but instead indulge in many other activities which appear to benefit the regulators ' Interests rather more . |
| 15 | Before he left he wrote to Routh suggesting that if some of the money now wasted utterly in relief works were instead put into interest-free loans to the Irish railways , a great deal of employment would follow , not only on the lines but in the trade they would stimulate . |
| 16 | But , of course , such a male could never reproduce and natural selection is ultimately a question of reproductive success , not of fitness , and in fact from now on you will find me avoiding the term fitness and instead talking about reproductive success , and you 'll find that all the best literature , like Trivers ' book , does the same thing . |
| 17 | However , attention is instead directed in this chapter to an ideological examination of the question of whether all this matters , and if so , how and to whom . |
| 18 | She did not ask me foolish questions such as — ‘ How do you propose to go about it ? ’ but instead said with easy grace , reaching into a capacious velvet bag , handing me a card : |
| 19 | Coen and Hickman dispense with the common practice of linking changes in NAIRU with changes in the natural unemployment rate , preferring instead to rely on demographic and other data to arrive at direct estimates of the natural rate , estimates which do not take as their reference point the behaviour of the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 21 | Costs remain essentially unchanged if these forks continue to elongate isometrically , but if elongation instead proceeds by further deepening of the fork through lengthening its outer but not its central feathers , these outer feathers eventually project beyond the point of maximum continuous width even when spread . |