Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Instead of worrying about that , the fashionable thing to worry about was how people were going to adapt to all the leisure which the automated future would provide . |
| 3 | So if you cry babies would stop moaning and get a life and support the greatest , most wonderfully gifted team in the world instead of worrying about petty , shitty sides like Leeds then you 'd be able to watch them on tv all the time . |
| 4 | So what philosophers have said is , Instead of talking about good in the abstract , let's look at the way people actually use words like ‘ good ’ in non-philosophical contexts . |
| 5 | We might achieve the second task by altering our account of defeasibility so that instead of talking about some one other truth ( which caused the problem of piecemeal addition ) we talk about all truths whatever . |
| 6 | ‘ Instead of talking about basic acoustics and the physics of sound itself , and then how that maps to our experiences of things like pitch and so forth , you can talk about sources of sound and the physics of sources of sound and how we experience those . ’ |