Example sentences of "instead of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rose designs were divided by tracery into geometrical and flowing shapes , instead of the radiating wheel spokes used before . |
| 2 | Baseball fans point out that Jackson bats right-handed and throws left instead of the other way round and was anyway more villain than hero , a theory the film never discusses . |
| 3 | The roles of parents and children gradually become reversed and children start to look after their parents and worry about them instead of the other way around . |
| 4 | He sounded so close he might almost have been in the next room instead of the other side of the Atlantic ocean . |
| 5 | It was as if her body was carrying her along , matter over mind , in fact , instead of the other way about . |
| 6 | The call was intercepted and the Princess of Wales spent the rest of the cruise away from her husband , chosing to eat all her meals with Princes William and Harry instead of the other adults . |
| 7 | I thought , if he 'd been the one arriving in my world instead of the other way around , he 'd have thought I was just as stupid ! |
| 8 | Ironic , he thought , that Müller had plunged the knife in to her back instead of the other way round . |
| 9 | Would it no be similar to kept taking Dixevit instead of the other ones Doctor ? |
| 10 | As David Nicholson said he 'll be taking orders from the jockey today instead of the other way around . |
| 11 | But apart from that oh an extra bath instead of the other bedroom |
| 12 | Well look there 's an estimation look they 're parking , they 're queuing on this brow of the hill instead of the other one . |
| 13 | I imagined conning Wavebreaker into Dartmouth , and taking the power skiff upriver to one of my old and favourite pubs where the ale had real taste instead of the limp-wristed chill of North American beers . |
| 14 | Next time he sends you greetings do give him the right salute instead of the two-fingered one . |
| 15 | Instead of the flickering black-and-white images of 1900 , there were by 1985 television sets in nearly half the world 's households . |
| 16 | The Smiths were the second coming of Postcard — the whiter-than-white ‘ pure pop ’ : the sexual ambiguity ; the Luddite insistence on guitars : Edwyn Collins 's avowed rating of romance over sex ; the swoon instead of the earthy R&B rasp ; the flustered undanceability . |
| 17 | Sunday league matches would be of 50 overs a side instead of the existing 40 , and group preliminary matches in the Benson and Hedges Cup would be replaced by a knock-out competition . |
| 18 | Nu advanced the ingenious suggestion that instead of the existing Commonwealth structure there should be a federation of Socialist states . |
| 19 | Traditionally , controversy has centred around the question of whether local authorities should adopt best commercial practice , i.e. depreciation accounting , instead of the existing system . |
| 20 | They had discovered the possibilities of cotton growing in the district ’ and they puzzled their Boer neighbours by their zest for games ( cricket , golf , polo ) and for such strange , unnecessary luxuries as electricity or water plumbing in their homes , or even wrought iron gates instead of the traditional wire strands which had to be laboriously fastened with primitive devices . |
| 21 | They had the modern aluminium racks on wheels for foddering the sheep instead of the traditional , very much more silent version made from wood . |
| 22 | At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST . |
| 23 | Unknown to the print unions , Murdoch had also embarked on recruiting electricians to work in his plant instead of the traditional printers . |
| 24 | The updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 25 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 26 | He has also done a limitless edition of paper coffee cups which say , instead of the traditional ‘ I N.Y . ’ , |
| 27 | Elsewhere , the company is persuading people to take just one paper napkin instead of the traditional handful ( usage is down by 40 per cent at one US example ) and asking them to help themselves to just as many vegetables as they think they 'll realistically eat . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the State Services Co-ordinating Commmittee has recommended that secondary schools be run by higher-paid managers instead of the traditional principals , with the right to sack teachers and determine their pay . |
| 29 | The horses are freeze-marked instead of the traditional heat branding . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the evocation of " wayfaring " folk instead of the contemporary urban proletariat introduces into the discourse of the Report a sense of Englishness linked to a mythology of medieval organic ruralism . |