Example sentences of "[adv] of [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have any chance now of holding his own , the new health secretary , William Waldegrave has , first , to explain how the old-style NHS failed its patients . |
| 2 | No this make things a lot easier , instead of taking it all up to the full council . |
| 3 | Diogenes , instead of building his own success and fulfilling himself , did the opposite and stripped himself of all pride so that there was no way anyone could hurt him . |
| 4 | As he put his foot on the doorstep , a young man seemed to jostle him — it was young McCulloch from Weem , the sulky handsome lad with the curly head — why had he come hanging about here instead of hearing his own man preach in Weem ? |
| 5 | ‘ You wonder why I am warning you , instead of rounding you all up ? |
| 6 | In the perversion of this process that typically occurs in Burkitt 's lymphoma cells , any of three chromosomes containing the antibody genes , instead of reorganising their own DNA , exchange some DNA with chromosome 8 . |
| 7 | Instead of starting our own clubs and groups , I have encouraged our members to be as salt in many of the different activities of the centre . |
| 8 | ‘ They tend to want everything handed on a plate to them instead of adding their own personal touch . |
| 9 | Instead of forcing their own decisions on a clearly reluctant public , they offered the public the opportunity to make the choice . |
| 10 | If , instead of following them that way you follow them a bit further north and follow them north of the Himalayas , then get smaller and greyer and paler , and the two ends of the loop meet in China and behave as distinct species . |
| 11 | Instead of answering his own question , Rafiq let out a high-pitched wail , which was taken up by the rest of the men . |
| 12 | Instead of projecting their own imaginings onto the forms of faceless archetypes , women surrealists tapped into their subconscious by taking their own bodies as source and subject matter . |
| 13 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 14 | The complementary , interpenetrating phenomena in proletarian life that the implied narrator confronts , and by confronting epiphanizes , are a means primarily of defining his own ambivalent relation both to the zeitgeist and to his own eternal validity . |