Example sentences of "instead [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued against market exchanges , and instead pointed to the need for planned production and exchange . |
| 2 | This , I trust , has no connection with the fecal matter we are used to seeing hanging around the back end of a sheep , but instead refers to the fact they spend most of their weekends dangling from a rope . |
| 3 | Creggan was not afraid but instead filled with the feeling that there was strength in the Man that was on his side ; and anger too ; and that something was happening , something that concerned Minch . |
| 4 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 5 | The ‘ now ’ here instead corresponds to the ‘ now ’ on & alpha Centauri in 4.5 years ' time , because that is how long it takes light to get from here to there . |
| 6 | Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section . |
| 7 | They oversimplify the richness of reality and are , therefore , ignored by managers who must have a holistic view of situations and who , unlike some economists , can not wish reality away by ignoring the facts and instead expound on the theories … . |
| 8 | The Substitute had refused the chair offered to him , choosing instead to wander about the room , taking brief puffs on his cigar and regarding everything and everyone with an amused detachment that gave the impression of his being mildly surprised but pleased at having to perform the office of Public Prosecutor . |
| 9 | Instead looking at the changes which had been achieved , they judged that Mr Mandela and President de Klerk had laid the foundations for a new democratic South Africa and done so through personal integrity and great political courage . |
| 10 | When the counsellor faces this situation it is often more appropriate to leave the subject of drinking , and to try instead to focus on the nature of the social distress that the individuals are experiencing . |
| 11 | Let us instead look at the point which is well beyond it , indeed completely over the score . |
| 12 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 13 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 14 | Pensions were instead linked to the retail prices index . |
| 15 | State policy is instead set by the impersonal logic which drives government in a capitalist society to develop the economic base and coercively maintain social stability . |
| 16 | His anger at her taking his carrion was gone and instead focused on the miserable hooded crows . |
| 17 | She pretended not to notice the mocking drawl behind his words and instead concentrated on the scenery . |
| 18 | For example , people who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 19 | People who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 20 | For example , people who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 21 | To attempt to perform the double act is instead to oscillate between the two . |
| 22 | Melton Park would have a very easy passage in the Members ' , but may instead go for the Restricted , where his main opposition could come from The Grey Boreen . |
| 23 | This suggested that the red shift was instead caused by the expansion of the universe , which , in turn , meant that the object was a very long distance away . |
| 24 | We graciously decline , and instead go to the cinema . |
| 25 | Official energies were instead directed to the establishment of a judicial system similar in many ways to that of Britain . |
| 26 | Actual statements about the self ( such as those obtained in the Ten Statements Test ) may not refer to this dimension at all , but instead relate to the psycho-linguistic question of the extent to which self and ( housewife ) role are differentiated in the self-concept . |
| 27 | Protestants were another matter : they were not invited as such , but urged instead to return to the fold of Roman Catholicism . |
| 28 | Because it 's , it 's completely wrong and misleading , and let's instead talk about the ultimate bottom line in evolution which is reproductive success . |
| 29 | On receiving the Twenty-one Conditions for entry the ILP decided instead to link with the Vienna or " Two-and-a-Half " International which included various Left Socialist groups in Europe . |
| 30 | In what was construed as a conciliatory gesture , EC Foreign Ministers also agreed to refrain from early reprisals against the USA , opting instead to warn of the inevitability of EC retaliation if the US side went ahead with its " unilateral " sanctions . |