Example sentences of "instead of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 2 | This means that instead of a Lions ' debut being guaranteed for the 10-times-capped Garryowen player against Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday week , he might miss the match . |
| 3 | Instead of a windfall-profits tax , which cost them £375m in 1981 , the banks merely have to suffer the pin-prick of a delay in claiming tax-relief on those same provisions which hit their profits . |
| 4 | instead of the middles like we used |
| 5 | Instead of the doctors and nurses we so urgently need , we have an army of bureaucrats which has expanded from 700 to 13,200 in the same time . |
| 6 | But if instead of the terminals you substitute a network of personal computers or other intelligent workstations , you gain several advantages . |
| 7 | The streets curved and twisted as pleasantly as the river , but were shaded by fine lime trees , now breaking into delicate leaf , instead of the willows , soon to shimmer summer through , above the trout-ringed reaches of the River Pleshey . |
| 8 | This is another reason to start off any flying training by emphasising visual references instead of the instruments . |
| 9 | An alternative way of calculating NI contributions is to use the exact percentage method instead of the tables . |
| 10 | Its name derives from the fact that , instead of the eggs being spawned in water and left to their own devices , they are carried by the male wrapped in strings around his legs . |
| 11 | Thus , ‘ Congress has come to dominate the national politics of federalism , and its members have gained that dominance by crawling inside the details of federal grant programmes and examining the effects of the distribution of federal money ’ , instead of the states deciding it themselves . |
| 12 | But the bass is figured and Schein obligingly points out alternative methods of performance : two tenors or soprano and tenor instead of the sopranos ; bass to be played by trombone , bassoon , or violone ; soprano II to be replaced by violin or flute ; or simply soprano solo with continuo — by which expedient the German solo song with continuo was born almost by accident . |
| 13 | Instead of the ambitions of the grammar school , the curriculum was confined to the " plain accomplishments " which were the only ones needed by the " generality of the people " . |
| 14 | Cos he had all the jockeys , the jockeys , no racing on a Sunday and he had jockeys to ride them instead of the boys in the stable . |
| 15 | But what they were asking for our support would we also write to the bus companies again and urge them instead of the buses going down Station Lane to come through our village . |
| 16 | recognised that the situation might well have been different if , instead of the defendants simply threatening to ‘ black ’ the broadcast they had gone to the B.B.C. and said ‘ We wish it to be established as part of our conditions of employment that we are not required to work on broadcasts to South Africa . ’ |
| 17 | What can we give Je Jenni instead of the bumps ? |
| 18 | The only other thing I would say is that we have in the report used the words , freedom to run and since writing the report we have been advised that er that is capa not capable or satisfactorily with legal terms and I would suggest that instead of the words , freedom to run we use the words , access management and permissive rights of way , to cover these . |
| 19 | In the evening she wrote a cheque for £20 , but instead of the Cats ' Protection League , made it out to Maria Jakob . |
| 20 | Instead of the elections earlier promised for April 1990 , it provided for a loya jirga or grand assembly of over 2,000 members ( 10 from each of 216 districts in Afghanistan plus 15 from each of the seven groups based in Peshawar , either elected or chosen by local councils ) which would select first a new government and parliament . |
| 21 | Let them keep their children instead of the children keeping them ! ’ |
| 22 | Instead of the children being the monsters , the parents become the monsters who threaten to take over and exact revenge . |
| 23 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 24 | They threaded their way through the vegetable market , full of dull early spring vegetables instead of the mounds of tomatoes and aubergines and peppers and artichokes that Julia longed to see and buy , and reached the Tribunale di Giustizia a few minutes later . |
| 25 | He was always one for the girls and as soon as he was a bit older , instead of the dogs he always seemed to have besotted females hanging round him . |
| 26 | Mr Major will now face a rough ride when he reports to the Commons on the summit tomorrow instead of the cheers of approval he was hoping for . |
| 27 | A surprising number of gliders have been wrecked by pilots pulling the undercarriage lever or even the release knob instead of the airbrakes on the approach , usually on their first flight on type . |
| 28 | Smoked streaky bacon can be used instead of the chops . |
| 29 | There also appear to be some significant omissions from the Commission 's Report , such as giving the CPS instead of the police , the power to decide who should be cautioned and charged . |
| 30 | Instead of the Wallabies asking if anyone would turn up , there were several city employers wondering if any of their staff would turn up after the 30-minute parade ended followed by a ceremony at Town Hall where captain Nick-Farr Jones was presented the key to the City of Sydney . |