Example sentences of "instead of [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of targeting those who were holding up relief convoys , he said , the UN was targeting the action against hungry people . |
| 2 | Instead of getting all hot and bothered and self-righteous , how about calling your legal weasels off this morning and coming over later for a meeting . |
| 3 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 4 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 5 | He invented a machine which made the job quicker and easier by providing a separate needle for each loop , so as to make a whole row of stitches at one operation instead of casting all the loops on to one needle . |
| 6 | Instead of repeating all that has been said and written before , we will therefore discuss these matters in a way that enables you to use your common-sense judgement and understand why you decide to do something . |
| 7 | Instead of moving all the gear around , he said , how about if I borrow your bass cabinet ? |
| 8 | Instead of shoving all the buses on to one route . |
| 9 | instead of facing each other in a clash the arrows are aligned in their upward movement . |
| 10 | Instead of facing some fierce wild animal alone and killing it armed only with courage and a spear , he now channels his competitive instinct into his job , or sport . ’ |
| 11 | So instead of trying all 26 letters at a wild card position , we only need to try the letters in one of these 6 subsets . |
| 12 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 13 | Instead of considering more legislation , Bill Clinton should think about deregulating medicine . |
| 14 | Instead of collecting these resources by disguised taxation , through inflation , they would then be collected by open taxation , and the public sector would no longer be exerting a substantial inflationary influence . |
| 15 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 16 | Instead of using this flue gas desulphurisation ? |
| 17 | Instead of using both part buttons , one part and one tuck button are pressed . |
| 18 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |
| 19 | Put forward your suggestions , say , ‘ Hey , I want this in , I want this , this 'd be great ’ , instead of dialling all those figures , all you have to do is hash 6 and the number . |
| 20 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 21 | So instead of ringing each other up on the telephone we spoke to each other over the C.B. as you do n't have to pay each time you speak as when you speak on a C.B. your words travel with Radio waves and when you speak on a telephone your words travel down wires . |
| 22 | But instead of discussing such low-cost , appropriate approaches , the International Workshop on Earthen Buildings in Seismic Areas , sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and held in Albuquerque in May 1981 , heard about high technology solutions like ‘ prestressed adobe ’ and ‘ reinforced poured adobe ’ . |
| 23 | Instead of devoting more time and money to the inherently unlikely possibility that this organism alone among replicating particles contains no nucleic acids , researchers should concentrate on cracking its tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 24 | Instead of plotting each smoothed value as a point , a vertical bar of constant height centred upon the smoothed value is drawn . |
| 25 | In this case , instead of accepting that comprehensible input is indeed validly conceived as ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ ’ and then looking at how it might be achieved by interaction , one might more profitably ask whether these strategies of interaction on the part of the learner do not suggest that the notion of comprehensible input is inadequate for explaining how language is learned , and therefore is not so very fundamental after all . |
| 26 | But instead of meeting each problem separately and assessing it for what it is , the anorexic thinks she has a master-plan , designed to solve them all at one stroke . |
| 27 | If it 's okay with you , I 'd rather we wait till the moon goes in again , an ’ take a chance on crossin' from here … instead of goin' all the way round there in the trees , I mean . |
| 28 | One further dimension to such a system is the possibility of " networking " a number of micros This involves the interconnecting of micros which retain their full power as independent computers but gain the additional ability of communicating with other computers in the network and having access to common files The result is analogous to a minicomputer with a number of terminals but with the big difference that each of the micros has its own processing power instead of sharing that of the mini . |
| 29 | Instead of converting each country 's GDP into dollars using market exchange rates , it now uses purchasing-power parities ( PPP ) , which take account of what money actually buys in each country . |
| 30 | Instead of allowing this to be a frustrating and pointless event , ask yourself why you created it . |