Example sentences of "[noun sg] instead [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the hospitals tried to make money by entering into agreements with local authorities , then the edifice would begin to crumble stone by stone , and there would result the rate- and state-aided institution instead of the voluntary principle of generosity , personality , and sympathy . ’ |
| 2 | So , by slow and painful steps , man learnt to become the hunter instead of the hunted , killing animals for food . |
| 3 | Tranquilliser addiction , unlike alcohol and illegal drug addiction , is a prescribed problem which cause long term distress instead of the desired short term cure . |
| 4 | Mr Baker , who said society had become more violent and more selfish , made an indirect attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr George Carey , and other church leaders , calling on them to concentrate on juvenile crime instead of the European Social Chapter on workers ' rights . |
| 5 | Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , yesterday moved to mitigate the effects of the Inland Revenue revaluation by announcing that the poundage will be set at 34.8 pence in the pound instead of the provisional figure of 36 pence in the pound announced last month . |
| 6 | Bernie was responsible for read-out and interpretation of FDRs in Canada and I put it to him that what we really needed was the ability to watch the accident taking place in real time , preferably by means of a DFDR providing the inputs to a flight simulator instead of the usual pilot inputs . |
| 7 | Stewart Wilson of the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford put forward the idea of using a Chinese sailing wheelbarrow instead of the two-wheeled cart which I was considering , and one of his students , Khalid Nazir , made a wooden prototype . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | i might use flo at the right side instead of the left for him to win the hard , long balls from left back bjornebye . |
| 10 | Thus suppose a mutation occurs in a complex organism which causes GGC to be translated as proline instead of the usual glycine . |
| 11 | Also , as an immigrant to Canada , I can affirm it 's more pleasant living where problems are met with cheerful optimism instead of the sullen whining which passes for debate in Britain . |
| 12 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 13 | It 's easy and quick too , ( the speed is a consequence of using a wireframe cube instead of the entire graph ) . |
| 14 | With a minimum of 5 copies , each student pays just 75p per issue instead of the usual price of £1.30 . |
| 15 | If there is a hollow instead of the swelling , you have prised out the bud with the pith sliver and ruined it — start again with another . |
| 16 | I 've put the white & green curtains in your room instead of the beige ones — a great improvement . |
| 17 | He sounded so close he might almost have been in the next room instead of the other side of the Atlantic ocean . |
| 18 | The Firebrand featured the Gibson name branded into the headstock instead of the usual gold ‘ Gibson ’ decal . |
| 19 | By and large , planners were associated with incomers in that they wished to control the way things were done , viz to impose rules where there were none before and to replace the old social norms by fiat instead of the usual agreement between households . |
| 20 | But the waitresses in Marshall and Snelgrove had new uniforms , dark purple instead of the old coffee-cream shade , and a different style of cap , more up to date and less obtrusive . |
| 21 | The 24-year-old Birchfield Harrier failed to win selection for Auckland and has turned his attention instead to the European Indoor Championships to be held in Glasgow in early March . |
| 22 | Sales of airbags as optional extras is also on the way up as many drivers think safety instead of the usual comforts like sunroofs and fancy paintwork . |
| 23 | The clear beneficiary was Tony Benn , who immediately launched a six-month campaign to have himself elected as deputy leader instead of the hated Denis Healey , who was , in the opinion of many , the architect of the sell-out of socialist economic policy during the Wilson-Callaghan government . |
| 24 | Well look there 's an estimation look they 're parking , they 're queuing on this brow of the hill instead of the other one . |
| 25 | A better bet for performance is the smaller 190 , with the optional 2.5-litre diesel instead of the usual 2-litre version . |
| 26 | ‘ We will continue with the subsidy but with a maximum of £80 per shop instead of the previous £120 , ’ said Mr Thin . |
| 27 | Another feature of Roman temples was that they were generally raised on a podium instead of the Greek stylobate . |
| 28 | Ironic , he thought , that Müller had plunged the knife in to her back instead of the other way round . |
| 29 | It allows four of you entry for just £3.75 per person instead of the usual £7.95 . |
| 30 | An Indian pilot who flies regularly to Katmandu said the rate of descent once the plane cleared the mountains was about 2,000 feet a minute instead of the usual 600 feet a minute . |