Example sentences of "instead of [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it is possible that , instead of substituting for transport interactions , telecommunications will broaden people 's activities and actually stimulate further activities and trips ( Tyler 1979 ; Clark and Unwin 1981 ) . |
| 2 | If we wish to be a passive industry , instead of pushing for advancements , then little will change . |
| 3 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 4 | • Buy for durability ; instead of settling for cheap plastic , spend a little more on something that will last . |
| 5 | Coloni received a message to say his mother had been injured in some sort of political disturbance in Valparaíso , so instead of cooking for us , he decided to go home . |
| 6 | Instead of plumping for shop-bought toys , build up a useful box , filled with everything from buttons to old magazines , which children can glue together to make their own sculptures . |
| 7 | He continues , ‘ Instead of reaching for the brown sauce , my book suggests deglazing the meat juice with water to rediscover the taste of real food ; the same goes for the taste of real vanilla rather than vanilla flavouring ; and the taste and simplicity of pan-fried fish with a dash of lime juice . ’ |
| 8 | Such rhetoric may represent our wish-fulfilling denial of power and responsibility — a way of disavowing our position instead of accounting for it . |
| 9 | In the first place , instead of searching for the long-term consequences of early family experiences , a switch has taken place to the study of immediate effects . |
| 10 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 11 | Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems , the call went up for a leader who would , in the words of one Bioscope editorial , be able ‘ to make order out of disorder , to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand , tactfully and helpfully , yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives . ’ . |
| 12 | In his book , The Stress Myth , he contradicts the usual assumption that unwanted stress is an inevitable part of life and teaches that instead of looking for ways of dealing with it after it has occurred , we ourselves should take action to prevent it happening at all . |
| 13 | Instead of looking for more acquisitions , he is focusing on greenfield development in the bathroom and houseware sectors . |
| 14 | This alternative approach , instead of looking for polarities and constructing rigid distinctions in intellectual development with which to correlate similarly reified literacy practices , recognises these literacy practices as themselves social products , no more isolable from the political and ideological context than are the ‘ scientific ’ achievements that Goody would associate with them . |
| 15 | Instead of looking for different relations in different contexts to prove ambiguity , one may adduce sameness of relations as evidence of generality . |
| 16 | Instead of looking for one thing to satisfy our needs we might try looking for combinations . |
| 17 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 18 | Surely this must be Howard 's concern instead of looking for another striker . |
| 19 | Instead of ringing for the maid she rose and poured more tea . |
| 20 | To be honest you 'd be better off instead of aiming for Watford going straight across . |
| 21 | ‘ Besides — ’ said Anne who had not been listening , but pursuing her own line of thought ‘ — if I were affianced to Prince Edward , the marriage could be completed in a year or so — instead of delayed for Heaven knows how long ! ’ |
| 22 | Instead of calling for Elizabeth immediately after tea , she 'd stayed watching television , thinking Elizabeth would wait for her anyhow . |
| 23 | They were n't inherently toxic or dangerous , but they were misused , and instead of calling for an ambulance people would have another squirt of the inhaler down their throat and the result was that they unfortunately died . |
| 24 | Instead of apologising for the article , the Mirror , in an act of ‘ pure undiluted hypocrisy ’ , published a second article ‘ Maggie 's Clay Test ’ and a leader on the subject the following day . |
| 25 | The irony , however , is that in fact the new system is more likely to increase central control over , and funding of , local spending , instead of allowing for local variation , accountability and choice . |
| 26 | Instead of opting for generalized decadence and satanic luxury , Mr Alexander and his designer , Fotini Dimou , locate the action in a precise world : Naples in 1504 under Spanish rule and Catholic sway . |
| 27 | Indeed , instead of waiting for demand to slump , manufacturing firms cut jobs by 2% in the year before the recession took hold , lifting productivity by 4% in the year to the third quarter of 1990 — four times the typical gain in efficiency at that stage of the cycle . |
| 28 | Instead of waiting for the predator to attack them , they use their powerful claws to turn the tables . |
| 29 | Instead of waiting for chance spawnings , you can start a breeding programme with any number of different fish species . |
| 30 | Have we any answer to the jibe , ‘ If it is the right thing to do , you would be doing it now instead of waiting for everyone else' ? ’ |