Example sentences of "instead of [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the perversion of this process that typically occurs in Burkitt 's lymphoma cells , any of three chromosomes containing the antibody genes , instead of reorganising their own DNA , exchange some DNA with chromosome 8 . |
| 2 | ‘ They tend to want everything handed on a plate to them instead of adding their own personal touch . |
| 3 | Instead of forcing their own decisions on a clearly reluctant public , they offered the public the opportunity to make the choice . |
| 4 | Instead of projecting their own imaginings onto the forms of faceless archetypes , women surrealists tapped into their subconscious by taking their own bodies as source and subject matter . |
| 5 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |