Example sentences of "instead [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of dictating the number , he said , ‘ Let me , ’ and took the phone out of her hand . |
| 2 | Instead of counting the squares all you have to do is multiply the length by the width ! |
| 3 | Instead of drumming the trivial facts of physical geography of yesteryear into the heads of reluctant freshmen , introducing classes should teach the concepts of systems analysis and the flows of energy , mass , momentum , and information through various environments of our planet . |
| 4 | But the SPD , instead of exuding the sort of assurance suggesting that the general election in December next year belongs to it , struggles to hide its edginess . |
| 5 | The driver , Fred King , used to goad them , always at them , never left them alone so instead of getting the best out of them he seemed to be determined to get the worst instead . |
| 6 | That is why , instead of taking the weakness of his desires to himself , Stavrogin continues in figurative , musing vein , sad and free , very beautiful in context : ‘ You can cross a river on a tree-trunk , but not on a chip of wood . ’ |
| 7 | Walk to the station , shops or school instead of taking the car or being driven |
| 8 | Walking to the shops instead of taking the car or bus , or walking up the stairs instead of using the lift are comparatively painless ways of working towards greater things . |
| 9 | Think of all the opportunities that are available each day to walk , instead of taking the easy option by using cars , buses , taxis and trains . |
| 10 | In the preface to this book Anne and Don Byrne state that instead of taking the usual text book approach to psychology they have ‘ decided to identify those areas of psychology which are directly relevant to the practice of nursing . ’ |
| 11 | He then added : ‘ Although maybe now I 'll just do what he does and fight a bum a month instead of taking the hard fights . |
| 12 | I was very strong and he never tired me : sometimes I carried him on our afternoon walks instead of taking the pram , just for the pleasure of feeling my arms ache under his weight . |
| 13 | We walked the length of the Hall , instead of taking the short cut though the darkened Ophthalmic Department . |
| 14 | For instead of taking the final explanatory step , he leaves them with an unanalysed notion of class strategy . |
| 15 | Another possibility , for example , uses the same concept of a filter set , but instead of taking the definition as a whole , takes the separate senses and progressively eliminates those that show the least overlap with the filter set . |
| 16 | Further , instead of taking the average of the twenty best years ' earnings after 1978 , SERPS will now take an average earnings of all years worked . |
| 17 | Instead of taking the boat house turning , they followed the shoreline in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 19 | I mean that that is one possible approach of doing it that you instead of taking the figure of nine thousand seven hundred in policy H one you refer to it as being eight thousand three hundred , or whatever figure you might happen to come up with . |
| 20 | Instead of taking the eggs . |
| 21 | And you instead of taking the instead of going as far as the traffic lights to come to us , you take the exit before that which is |
| 22 | The criticism came from the former senior chief inspector , Mr. Eric Bolton , who pointed out that , under Labour 's proposals , the inspectorate , instead of advising the Secretary of State directly , would have to rely on the secondment of some senior inspectors . |
| 23 | His churches showed an equally acute awareness of changing fashions : the neo-perpendicular of his fan-vaulted church of St John , Edinburgh ( 1818 ) , which challenged comparison with anything in England at that date , was superseded by the elegant Early English and neo-Norman of the numerous churches he built for the Duke of Buccleuch in the 1830s , and in 1843 by the mid-Decorated of his St Mary 's , Dundee , in which he reproduced in a much richer form the arcades and clerestory of the burned-down medieval church instead of building the usual preaching box desired by presbyterian divines at that time . |
| 24 | Instead of staying the requisite two years I came home after just nine months . |
| 25 | Lotus ' combo box widget combines a drop-down list and a type-in text field , enabling developers to use off-the-shelf widgets instead of creating the same combination each time . |
| 26 | Instead of creating the C65 , why ca n't Commodore release add-ons for the existing C64 ? |
| 27 | Instead of creating the image from patterns of dots the data is stored as a set of instructions with each element being an individual object . |
| 28 | For another , instead of mimicking the eggs of their hosts , they mimic the appearance and behaviour of their young . |
| 29 | Instead of coding the class background of respondents as 1 , 2 or 3 to denote service , intermediate or working class , for example , the information is effectively presented as two dichotomous variables — whether someone is in the service class or not , and in the intermediate class or not . |
| 30 | Instead of coding the instruction length into the operation code , the word mark bit is set on the left-hand character of each instruction ( which contains the operation code ) . |