Example sentences of "instead [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation in March falling from 4.1 p.c. to 4.0 p.c. , instead of to the expected 3.8 p.c. , could also make for caution , analysts believe . |
| 2 | She was agitated ; she was walking across the lawn instead of to the gate . ’ |
| 3 | The money is taken out of your pre-taxed income , so if you choose to give £10 a month , it will only cost you £7.50 — with the tax you would normally pay ( at 25 per cent basic rate ) going to charity , instead of to the Inland Revenue . |
| 4 | Some woman had telephoned her husband early this morning to ask her to come to my house to help my sister , instead of to the Lab . |
| 5 | Like other artists working in hospitals , Frances feels that the emphasis steers towards the end product instead of to the process of creating art with patients . |
| 6 | Where a defendant sends a document to the plaintiff instead of to the court , the plaintiff is required to send it to the court straight away . |
| 7 | Instead of to the higher price for the end of the year we 'll |
| 8 | Cllr Brooks was unavailable for comment but Elizabeth Leitch , Monklands housing convener , said it was regrettable that Cllr Murphy had seen fit to make allegations to the press instead of to the appropriate authorities . |
| 9 | The right to wear them over the left breast pocket instead of on the sleeve was granted to those who had taken part in three trips behind the lines . |
| 10 | Moreover , mothers may have encouraged children to play on the road surface where they could be seen from the kitchen window instead of on the grass at the front where they could not . |
| 11 | They carried the headlamp on the front of the canopy instead of on the dash and B.T-H . |
| 12 | The canopies were wide and rather flat ended , with the headlamp mounted in the centre thereof , instead of on the dash . |
| 13 | The second is that if , following the Francovich case , there was held to be a right to damages in such circumstances , the effect of requiring an undertaking from the council would be to impose liability in damages on the council instead of on the United Kingdom which , as I understand the position , would properly be the party so liable . |
| 14 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 15 | I know but if you 're going to get glue on it you might as well get it on this instead of on the lace one . |
| 16 | Well , I was going to say , at last year at my friends house , and they have all open front , beautiful frontage , nice big house they are , and two kiddies on bikes started riding down the , across the front gardens instead of on the pavement , or the road , and she said to me , oh , I 'll stop this , I 'm not having this . |
| 17 | The Cabinet is split from top to bottom over the Prime Minister 's policy of using Common Market grants for tax cuts instead of for the provision of help to deprived areas . |
| 18 | I wished I had stayed there instead of at the sweetshop . |
| 19 | Crown woods were sold by Exchequer warrant , and Forest offenders were prosecuted in the Court of Exchequer Chamber , instead of at the Forest Eyre . |
| 20 | Zvi Lipsky , the Burial Society Treasurer , had spent the whole afternoon trying to rid his mind of the annoyance of Arnold Wine 's advertisement in that morning 's Cork Examiner and now there was Wine himself , as bold as brass , sitting up in the front seats if you please , instead of at the back where he should be . |
| 21 | It changes every year so we go to these conference and we fight on our declaration of intent , on pensions , pensions reviews , that 's er reviewing a pension what we 're trying to get for the government of the day to review the pensions every six months instead of at the present every year . |
| 22 | Once the guidelines have been set up we can look at them instead of at the target . |
| 23 | By positioning a bolster in the middle of the bed instead of at the end the mattress will look as if it is divided into two separate areas . |
| 24 | A last-minute alteration introduced by Khasbulatov regarding governmental structures would effectively require Yeltsin to give up the premiership within three months , instead of at the end of the year . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) Choose a poem ( the same one as in exercise 1 if you like ) , and put the title after the first stanza , so that it is in the middle of the poem instead of at the beginning . |
| 26 | Shiona parked at the front , instead of at the side of the house where everyone normally parked their cars , and , pushing back her hair , headed for the front door . |
| 27 | In the dark , panic-stricken by what she 'd done , she ran down the wrong passage , towards the sea instead of towards the land , slipped and fell to her death on the rocks below . ’ |
| 28 | Obviously the balance lift will do twice the work , in the same time , and , beyond this , the power required to operate the lift , although of the same intensity , would be only usable during a small portion of the rise instead of during the whole . |
| 29 | Why not take poison later instead of during the meal or the reading itself ? ’ |
| 30 | Its waist was in quite the wrong place about her midriff , instead of under the semi-exposed bosom where Rose Alderley 's muslin petticoats began their graceful fall to the ground . |