Example sentences of "instead [prep] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 2 | Publications now abound which aim to develop ‘ ways of supporting the kind of school that ’ , with Hegarty ( 1987 ) , ‘ provides for each according to need as part of its normal provision , perceives special provision as an integral part of the whole ’ , and aims to prevent learning difficulties ( Booth et al 1987 ) instead of just reacting to them . |
| 3 | Groups are said to work because the group members can now react to each other instead of just reacting to management . |
| 4 | Instead of just spouting at me , I 'd just like you all to engage brain with . |
| 5 | Now I 'm suggesting that an evaluator might , instead of just concentrating on one set of values , deliberately try and look at several , so they might , for example , identify that there were a group of people who felt that history should be taught in a certain particular way for a certain purpose . |
| 6 | Instead of just waiting for Hugh to come back , for the baby , for the rain to stop . |
| 7 | ‘ If she disliked it so much , why did n't she change it , instead of just dreaming of being adored ? ’ , |
| 8 | This would be a great help , instead of just relying at present on judging conformation in the hope of reducing strain on tendons . |
| 9 | The importance of persuading individuals to save for their own pension instead of just relying on the State has been recognised by successive governments . |
| 10 | Instead of just relying on your union , . |
| 11 | Crawford , who was appearing on stage in Travelling Light , was being urged by fellow-star Harry H. Corbett to ask Gabrielle to dance , instead of just staring at her , but he was too tongue-tied . |
| 12 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 13 | But instead of simply struggling in embarrassment they can turn to their advisers and ask for help : " What do I say now ? " , |
| 14 | After 16 years you ought to be fluent in the language and , if you make this a priority now , you 'll be enhancing this phase of your life instead of simply waiting for it to pass . |
| 15 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 16 | Instead of openly siding with employers they instituted a rather more even-handed policy intended to bring labour and management together to regularise their relations . |
| 17 | So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful . |
| 18 | Instead of immediately heading for the ocean , as they are genetically programmed to do , they headed inland , and all perished . |
| 19 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 20 | Instead of merely reacting to differences in the road surface , as a conventional suspension system does , it anticipates bumps and bends . |
| 21 | When the carriage stopped at Langley Dene , the butler seemed more deferential as he opened the door and Mrs Langley , instead of merely rising from her chair , came half way across the drawing-room to welcome Alexandra . |
| 22 | On the former Johnson wished for accuracy of representation , by which means the portrait painter also creates a piece of history ; on the latter he applauded developments in which historians had begun to consult and interpret factual record instead of merely culling from other histories . |
| 23 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 24 | Instead of now referring to the child as something for us to share , Sarah started saying it was hers . |
| 25 | Jasny maintained that ‘ Instead of actually rising by 55 per cent in the five years from 1927/28 to 1932/33 , as provided in the approved version of the Five Year Plan , total farm output declined by 14 per cent between 1928 and 1933 . ’ |
| 26 | At the moment you 're cre , you 're cor , , you 're correcting your procedures on the basis of auditing and finding out what we 're not doing instead of really thinking about them . |
| 27 | But he had felt that he was still the same Mark Underwood , drearily going through the motions of belief instead of drearily going through the motions of disbelief ; that the searing , galvanic experience men called conversion was like an unexploded bomb ticking away inside him . |
| 28 | You fitted more snugly into society , especially , the tight little society around the Consul-General , if you were married and could take your wife along to dinner-parties with you , instead of forever having to be fixed up with a stray aunt or somebody . |
| 29 | one 's hurting the other and the other hurts back so instead of maybe looking at one another , they just do n't work hard ! |
| 30 | But this brings with it the potential for change , allowing them to become agents instead of passively relying on Oa . |