Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of drumming the trivial facts of physical geography of yesteryear into the heads of reluctant freshmen , introducing classes should teach the concepts of systems analysis and the flows of energy , mass , momentum , and information through various environments of our planet . |
| 2 | In the preface to this book Anne and Don Byrne state that instead of taking the usual text book approach to psychology they have ‘ decided to identify those areas of psychology which are directly relevant to the practice of nursing . ’ |
| 3 | For instead of taking the final explanatory step , he leaves them with an unanalysed notion of class strategy . |
| 4 | Think of all the opportunities that are available each day to walk , instead of taking the easy option by using cars , buses , taxis and trains . |
| 5 | We walked the length of the Hall , instead of taking the short cut though the darkened Ophthalmic Department . |
| 6 | He then added : ‘ Although maybe now I 'll just do what he does and fight a bum a month instead of taking the hard fights . |
| 7 | His churches showed an equally acute awareness of changing fashions : the neo-perpendicular of his fan-vaulted church of St John , Edinburgh ( 1818 ) , which challenged comparison with anything in England at that date , was superseded by the elegant Early English and neo-Norman of the numerous churches he built for the Duke of Buccleuch in the 1830s , and in 1843 by the mid-Decorated of his St Mary 's , Dundee , in which he reproduced in a much richer form the arcades and clerestory of the burned-down medieval church instead of building the usual preaching box desired by presbyterian divines at that time . |
| 8 | Lotus ' combo box widget combines a drop-down list and a type-in text field , enabling developers to use off-the-shelf widgets instead of creating the same combination each time . |
| 9 | Instead of maintaining the general domain of a text topic and preserving partial results to form hypotheses about new words and meanings , most natural language programs preserve little or nothing from one sentence to the next . |
| 10 | Instead of setting the main carriage to Fair Isle , it is set to slip , so while the pattern stitches are knitted the background stitches are slipped and vice versa . |
| 11 | It has been suggested ( e.g. by Schank , 1977 : 424 ; Maynard , 1980 ) that instead of undertaking the difficult task of attempting to define ‘ what a topic is ’ , we should concentrate on describing what we recognise as topic-shift . |
| 12 | This is a pregnancy where the placenta instead of feeding the fertilised egg ( or later the foetus when it is a partial mole ) feeds itself and grows all out of proportion and has to be removed . |
| 13 | Instead of locating the other elsewhere in the transgressive writing of literature or madness , Foucault himself becomes plato 's banished poet , and enacts in his language a supplementary simulacrum of the delirium of history . |
| 14 | A very mysterious , nasty record , and one that asks whether we 're being used by the powers-that-be by going out raving on E every night instead of overthrowing the rich . |
| 15 | Instead of harvesting the whole cabbage , cut the head leaving a short stump . |
| 16 | All but one of the females produced broods over the weeks , but the smallest female filled up with fluid and died instead of delivering the expected babies . |
| 17 | A female , instead of manufacturing the maximum number of eggs that can be created from her bodily reserves , may produce rather fewer but give each one a better chance of survival by supplying it with food in some way , so that it is sustained during its first difficult days . |
| 18 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 19 | I thought , ‘ this will make the carrying of the tea to the remaining resident members of my family an uncommonly pleasant event , because they will all smile upon me instead of producing the customary resentful grunt when I stir them from sleep , and they will say ‘ Good morning , dear husband/father ( as the case might be ) , and they will reach under their beds for the gift-wrapped goodies so lovingly prepared and concealed the night before , and handing me their tributes they will voice their gratitude to God that I have survived so far , and will express the pious hope that they may be able to repeat such sentiments on this same date for many a year to come . |
| 20 | I suggest that , instead of choosing the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor for his desert island disc , the Prime Minister would have done better to have chosen something from the Beggar 's Opera because there is a whole chorus on the London streets which could join in . |
| 21 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 22 | Without high social standards throughout the Community , the Single Market will encourage companies to continue trying to compete by cutting costs — moving to the areas with low wages , low environmental protection and low skills — instead of pursuing the only strategy which offers success in the global economy , that of high-skill , high-wage , high-quality production . |
| 23 | That immediately poses the question of why the TCCB opted to concentrate on impressing the Test nations with large financial guarantees , instead of copying the logical example of the sub-Continent and targetting the associates ? |
| 24 | Instead of using the Lasswellian framework for the study of the media 's effect on , say , individual voting preferences — namely , what is ‘ the effect of the media on the election ’ — Seymour-Ure suggests that one should rephrase the question as follows : ‘ What is the function of media in the electoral process ? ’ |
| 25 | Instead of using the traditional patch in the machine code , the user can switch to an editor in another ‘ window ’ to allow the changes to be made at source . |
| 26 | Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped . |
| 27 | He was not primarily a bacteriologist , and instead of using the standard criterion of survival of the organism , growth in culture , he measured the uptake of oxygen by the cultivated organisms over short periods and so obtained results more quickly . |
| 28 | The majority of the applications access the data through a small library of function calls , so that instead of using the flat files produced by the database they can be interfaced easily to other databases without significant code changes . |
| 29 | Instead of using the British presidency to initiate Europe-wide action to counter recession and attack unemployment , Mr Major had been engaged in ‘ word games about subsidiarity ’ , said Mr Smith . |
| 30 | Now , instead of using the three matrices C , B and A = C-1B as in 2.9.3 we work only with S. |