Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our behaviour plan can then be built around the ‘ bits ’ instead of depending on vague intentions . |
| 2 | Instead of skipping through unnoticed he was now the focus of attention . |
| 3 | Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future . |
| 4 | Instead of merging with each other , or one of the bigger concerns , in the early seventies three of the smaller firms signed affiliation agreements with the American Big Three as MITI opposition was overcome by political pressure for foreign capital liberalization . |
| 5 | Recall is similarly very simple you present the input pattern pushing through the decoders and instead of reading from these memory locations , sorry writing from these memory locations , you read from them okay . |
| 6 | So let us promote better health for the population that we have at present instead of experimenting with high-cost technology . |
| 7 | First , the file may not be able to support such complicated search conditions as a serial file , because the size of work area required to process a request is now much larger ; instead of dealing with one record at a time , the system now deals with all relevant records at once . |
| 8 | • Buy for durability ; instead of settling for cheap plastic , spend a little more on something that will last . |
| 9 | Instead of learning from past mistakes and triumphs , say the proponents of ‘ business process re-engineering ’ , managers should forget everything they know about how their companies operate , and reinvent their businesses from scratch . |
| 10 | Instead of plumping for shop-bought toys , build up a useful box , filled with everything from buttons to old magazines , which children can glue together to make their own sculptures . |
| 11 | The test was administered according to the instructions , but instead of stopping after ten errors the child was asked to continue . |
| 12 | Will Compacts encourage students to leave school at sixteen instead of participating in further education ? |
| 13 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 14 | The algorithm is modified , since only some set of the higher probability letters are selected as candidates to be chosen between , instead of choosing between all possible candidates . |
| 15 | But instead of sticking to this problem , which is interesting in itself , Yockey makes wild extrapolations in a futile attempt to show how the classical concept of information can be applied to problems in generating information . |
| 16 | Labour leader John Smith yesterday accused Premier John Major of turning Britain into a Third World country , instead of competing with European neighbours . |
| 17 | Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC . |
| 18 | Then , ‘ Instead of struggling in vain to prevent them from reaching my consciousness , I stepped back , as it were , and let thoughts and feelings come and go . |
| 19 | Instead of looking for one thing to satisfy our needs we might try looking for combinations . |
| 20 | Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems , the call went up for a leader who would , in the words of one Bioscope editorial , be able ‘ to make order out of disorder , to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand , tactfully and helpfully , yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives . ’ . |
| 21 | Instead of looking for different relations in different contexts to prove ambiguity , one may adduce sameness of relations as evidence of generality . |
| 22 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 23 | Instead of looking for more acquisitions , he is focusing on greenfield development in the bathroom and houseware sectors . |
| 24 | Surely this must be Howard 's concern instead of looking for another striker . |
| 25 | Instead of acting as some source of " alternative expertise " , projects have been run by union committees and have involved releasing both workers representatives and specialists to produce specifications for new technology and associated systems . |
| 26 | ‘ Madam , I wish you would listen instead of jumping to ridiculous conclusions ! ’ |
| 27 | An immediate freeze on prices and wages was imposed , the latter to be adjusted twice yearly instead of according to monthly indexation mechanisms . |
| 28 | I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality . |
| 29 | The irony , however , is that in fact the new system is more likely to increase central control over , and funding of , local spending , instead of allowing for local variation , accountability and choice . |
| 30 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |