Example sentences of "instead [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts . |
| 2 | What is seldom realised , until a first cross-country , is the vast increase in mental workload involved when soaring , map reading , field landings and flying have to be thought of , instead of just how to stay up . |
| 3 | Perhaps then I might have come to understand her , and instead of just doing my duty ( as I thought ) , to love her … |
| 4 | If I 'm a teacher I would rather teach ‘ See Jane run … … ’ to a million people on the road to thinking and articulating themselves , instead of just one individual . |
| 5 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 6 | Even if we were pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 per cent by 2005 ( as the Liberal Democrats are arguing ) , instead of just stabilising them , nobody need lose out . |
| 7 | Since the GCSE was introduced in 1988 , schools had been encouraged to buy courses from any board instead of just from the one in their area . |
| 8 | The chemical industry must take a more active role instead of just being a supplier or involved in sponsorship or patronage . |
| 9 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 10 | One of the advantages of using a person-in-role over inanimate objects is that the ‘ passive ’ stage of watching and listening can gradually change to a more active involvement , as and when the class seems ready , but more important of course is the extra dynamic edge that is brought to the whole occasion by having present someone real and breathing and tangible instead of just a photograph . |
| 11 | Using a fluorescent marker to highlight the left side of any reading material , such as a newspaper , can help the patient to pay attention to the whole text instead of just the right half . |
| 12 | The fact that you have thought things through instead of just feeling totally inadequate and that you are trying to do something about it should help you feel more positive . |
| 13 | The Carstairs system ( after Joseph Carstairs , died 1820 ) involved using the whole forearm in the business of writing , instead of just the fingers . |
| 14 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 15 | One day she 'll meet a swan who stands its ground ( or should I say ‘ sits its water ’ ? ) instead of just paddling disdainfully away from the natatorial hound , and that , as we country-folk say , will larn her something proper . |
| 16 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 17 | Poster expenditure may also have been overestimated because the parties used up to eight different creative treatments over the period instead of just one , which is the standard for a monthlong campaign . |
| 18 | Instead of just one 45cm eel , six 30cm eels had been sent , so I duly set off , having re-arranged a tank to put them in . |
| 19 | The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows . |
| 20 | Why did n't Benjamin demonstrate against the Vietnam War instead of just Lying around in his parents ' swimming pool ? |
| 21 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 22 | Data winging its way across the Atlantic or Pacific instead of just from one side of the office to the other may suggest a slower response to enquiries , but Mr Scully says there is no perceptible delay . |
| 23 | ‘ A bloody good thing or our childhood would have been a misery instead of just a bore . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If she disliked it so much , why did n't she change it , instead of just dreaming of being adored ? ’ , |
| 25 | Their latest grasping proposal is to impose charges on current accounts which stay in the black instead of just those which run into the red . |
| 26 | Maybe if more people built high bird-tables instead of just throwing breadcrumbs out on to the lawn and tempting the birds to risk their necks , fewer birds would die from cat attacks . |
| 27 | But instead of just getting rid of jobs , as a ‘ committed expansionist ’ , Thornton started work on plans to keep the unwanted staff , whom he described as ‘ almost to a man , dedicated , hard-working folk ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ And get yourself a good shoe designer and a good cutter , make your own shoes , begin an emporium instead of just importing and selling the leather , at least then you would not find yourself out on a limb in a man 's world . ‘ |
| 29 | Last month , the Minister of Culture Alberto Ronchey simply decreed that , from a date as yet to be fixed , but in any case before the summer season , all State-run monuments , museums , galleries , gardens , villas , parks and archaeological sites are to be open from nine in the morning until seven in the evening instead of just from nine until two . |
| 30 | The importance of persuading individuals to save for their own pension instead of just relying on the State has been recognised by successive governments . |