Example sentences of "instead [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section . |
| 2 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 3 | Pensions were instead linked to the retail prices index . |
| 4 | State policy is instead set by the impersonal logic which drives government in a capitalist society to develop the economic base and coercively maintain social stability . |
| 5 | His anger at her taking his carrion was gone and instead focused on the miserable hooded crows . |
| 6 | To attempt to perform the double act is instead to oscillate between the two . |
| 7 | Melton Park would have a very easy passage in the Members ' , but may instead go for the Restricted , where his main opposition could come from The Grey Boreen . |
| 8 | Actual statements about the self ( such as those obtained in the Ten Statements Test ) may not refer to this dimension at all , but instead relate to the psycho-linguistic question of the extent to which self and ( housewife ) role are differentiated in the self-concept . |
| 9 | Because it 's , it 's completely wrong and misleading , and let's instead talk about the ultimate bottom line in evolution which is reproductive success . |