Example sentences of "instead of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also makes it possible to watch the towplane instead of the ground and , as on a landing , looking well ahead reduces the tendency to over-control . |
| 2 | This is another reason to start off any flying training by emphasising visual references instead of the instruments . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Instead of the authorised prayer , he recited one for the dead . |
| 5 | ‘ If we breathe through our pores instead of the apparatus we have no problem at all . |
| 6 | What they want in future is 32 seeds in all the Grand Slam tournaments instead of the 16 they have at present . |
| 7 | Instead of the 125mph Class 89 prototype , an order was placed in January 1986 for twenty-nine Class 90 locomotives but they only have a potential of 110mph . |
| 8 | A variation known as Mark 3A was produced for locomotive haulage , differing only in having side buffers available when necessary , and centre buck-eye couplers instead of the special couplers on the 125 sets , and electric wiring to suit the different needs of locomotive haulage . |
| 9 | Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 . |
| 10 | This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’ |
| 11 | As a result C language programs can be run on the DSP32(C) instead of the PC 's CPU , giving a quite remarkable increase in performance . |
| 12 | The shore ends of the cable used solid armoured wires instead of the stranded type and the cable itself was gradually reduced in size between the shore and the deep sea section in three stages — a practice still followed today . |
| 13 | Another rule of thumb is that if the act is obliged to rest their microphone stand and amplifiers on beer crates instead of the stage , it will be a good evening . |
| 14 | Immediately , her expression and pace of approach changed and instead of the lambasting , or worse , she had seemed about to deliver , she gave the child a tolerant smile and began to pick up the scattered cans . |
| 15 | Ewan Murray , the Games council 's chairman , said cost was not a factor in selecting the team , but only 15 athletes achieved the stringent qualifying standards set down by the Scottish Amateur Athletic Associaton — and one , Allister Hutton , is not going to Auckland because he wished to run in the 10,000 metres instead of the marathon , for which he had qualified . |
| 16 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 17 | Ms Willbourne also called for the civil courts to be given new powers to exclude an abuser from the home instead of the child . |
| 18 | The hot-air hand-drier was almost certainly invented by lawyers : instead of the quick , rough efficiency of a towel , you must stand there miming the washing of hands over and over again until the soap has been extracted from every last crevice . |
| 19 | Despite protracted negotiations , the Spaniard will stick to his plans to play in a conflicting event in Japan instead of the World Cup in Spain in November . |
| 20 | Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever . |
| 21 | Grollet said Yates was informed of the test result on 6 September , a delay of several weeks , instead of the eight-day delay provided for under the rules of the International Cycling Union . |
| 22 | Instead of the 959 's computer-controlled variable front-rear power split , the Carrera 4 gets 31 per cent of the torque fed to the front wheels and 69 per cent to the rear . |
| 23 | An alternative way of calculating NI contributions is to use the exact percentage method instead of the tables . |
| 24 | Here was a student who overworked for more than a year and needed rest ; who was already in an emotional condition by the recognition of the highest ideals and their obligation upon him ; and then , instead of the rest which he needed , he had to endure the utterly unexpected death , in very distressing family conditions , of the person in the world to whom he felt nearest . |
| 25 | On another side it was an assault upon the corruption of the highest truths ; against turning love of the Bible into bibliolatry , or creeds into scholastic definitions , or the sacrament into magic , or Popes and priests and bishops into a bureaucracy or a rigidity where structure becomes the end instead of the means ; or turning the Church into a social club . |
| 26 | It had no sharps or flats and was based on a six-line stave — instead of the five-line one which is usual for musical notation . |
| 27 | ‘ The room had lost its magic : instead of the great sheet of clear sky overhead there were subdued shadows ; the polythene letting in less light than the glass . |
| 28 | Even after repair works on the generators had been done , only two of them operated satisfactorily forcing the factory to work on only two shifts instead of the usual three . |
| 29 | But , instead of the freedom and ease they had longed for , all they felt was emptiness where once all was tension and work . |
| 30 | Evolutionary theory gave a natural origin to human institutions instead of the supernatural origin which was the received and legally sanctioned view in much of nineteenth-century Europe , and if institutions and ideas had a natural historical origin they could be changed in changing conditions . |