Example sentences of "instead of [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | He thought that it would be nice if the BBC could be present at the press conference in their own right instead of getting a ‘ home grown ’ story at second hand , and so he contacted Richard Cookson , a close friend and retired Professor of Chemistry at Southampton University , whose son Clive was science correspondent with the BBC Radio . |
| 6 | Moreover the fractal transform technique provides perceptual resolution independence : zoom in to a picture and instead of getting a blocky , pixellated image , the software gives a realistic effect by actually adding detail in that was n't in the original . |
| 7 | Drawings were altered er instead of getting a whole sheet of a combined er er part of a , a steering gear or whatever it might have been , er they were all itemized and reduced to part pieces , and it was much easier to look , examine and find out what sizes were required than , you know , three dimensional er drawings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If , we reasoned , there really is a morphogen gradient , it should be possible to weaken the signal by decreasing the concentration , and so , instead of getting an additional set of digits 4 , 3 , 2 at the anterior margin only a 3 , 2 or a 2 should develop . |
| 10 | Instead of taking a detour , I decided it would be fun to pass through the flood , and drove towards it . |
| 11 | Instead of taking a huge currency risk by selling imported goods for roubles , Anis should use the devaluation of the rouble to its advantage by exporting . |
| 12 | After some weeks , instead of taking a sleeping pill she decided to lie awake and feel what her body was telling her . |
| 13 | If membership is voluntary , if the union-set wage is a public good applying to all workers in the sector irrespective of union status , and if there are positive costs to membership , why do workers join the union instead of taking a free ride ? |
| 14 | Instead of taking a Gadarene rush at this important matter of the reform of local government finance , the Government should have taken more time . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Walk to the station , shops or school instead of taking the car or being driven |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We walked the length of the Hall , instead of taking the short cut though the darkened Ophthalmic Department . |
| 23 | For instead of taking the final explanatory step , he leaves them with an unanalysed notion of class strategy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Instead of taking the boat house turning , they followed the shoreline in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Instead of taking the eggs . |
| 30 | 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 |