Example sentences of "instead [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He argued against market exchanges , and instead pointed to the need for planned production and exchange .
2 The Libyan government instead emphasized in a Foreign Ministry statement of March 26 that it would co-operate in the implementation of Resolution 731 , that the UN and the Arab League should work towards a " political solution " to the dispute , based on international law and the UN Charter , and that it would accept the forthcoming verdict by the International Court of Justice in the Hague ( ICJ ) .
3 Unix International has canned its press agents Miller Communications and hired New York-based Kahn Communications Group instead primping for an ‘ image makeover , ’ Kahn 's stock-in-trade .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 But if we go on refusing to accept our true age and try instead to remain at a stage of life to which we no longer properly belong , then looking younger than our years is a false statement .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 … .
11 Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes .
12 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 .
13 The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years .
14 They may instead opt for a production , product or sales-orientation .
15 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 .
16 In New York a new generation of designers is eschewing the American sportswear direction and instead looking towards an American lady of a mid-fifties vintage for inspiration .
17 Players instead benefit from a short run reputation effect .
18 The connections are instead seen as a network of communications — " pipelines " in which information flows continuously in both directions , between all elemental activities ( see Figure 1.2 ) .
19 In the modern period capital is instead organized at a national or transnational scale so that the previous ( capitalist ) rationale for sub-national government has withered away , except for a few spatially constrained sectors of capital , such as development interests or companies engaged in extracting mineral resources .
20 As with many later European voyagers , travel in this part of the world , far from broadening the mind , seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed , colour or class .
21 Some individuals , even when living in normal society , do not remain in synchrony with the 24-hour day and instead free-run with a period of about 25 hours .
22 They must instead stick to a range of sensible prices reflecting the value of the target business to them .
23 We can and often should stop reasoning about art , and go instead to look at a painting , listen to some music , read a poem .
24 Much previous research , in ignoring the social structural features of class and gender , has tended instead to focus on a variety of other factors in explaining supposed patterns of ‘ underachievement ’ , most of which are now regarded as highly dubious .
25 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 .
26 Let us instead look at the point which is well beyond it , indeed completely over the score .
27 The kitchen is a large low-ceilinged place , full of light though the windows barely reach above the gravel but instead look into a grassy bank .
28 It turned out that they had instead invested in an airline which never took off , a college that had no students , and a luxury yacht .
29 The Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , is expected not to accept the report 's recommendations and instead opt for a period of public consultation .
30 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 .
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