Example sentences of "and [verb] instead on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shamed Souness said : ‘ I 'd rather not talk about the goals we gave away and concentrate instead on the pluses . ’ |
| 2 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 3 | The vendor should resist assuming that the full earn out will eventually be paid and concentrate instead on the formula and past performance to consider the realistic expectation . |
| 4 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 5 | In keeping with the book 's leitmotif , however , let's ignore all that and focus instead on the rich images of Lamb in shock at the lunch interval after weathering 22 bouncers among the preceding 24 balls ; of Dexter losing interest after fielding all day in 90 degrees at Karachi ; of the normally taciturn Peter May sounding off about the regime which followed him as chairman of selectors ; of the ‘ terror of spin ’ and the West Indian ‘ throat-theory ’ reign of terror , attributed in part to the meatiness of their backsides . |
| 6 | Wendy ( played by Maggie Smith plus wrinkly make-up ) has to stay in the Wendy house , while grown-up Peter forgets all about his kidnapped daughter , and concentrates instead on the more important business of bonding with his kidnapped son . |
| 7 | This was to avoid the difficult and genuinely contentious question and to focus instead on a secondary matter . |
| 8 | The Working for Patients White Paper later that year ( Cm 555,1989 ) proposed to abandon the RAWP formula and rely instead on a ‘ simpler ’ weighted formula for regional allocations , moving gradually to apply a similar formula to the cash districts were allocated . |
| 9 | He says : ‘ We 've tried to avoid the gorier aspects of hospital life , and focused instead on the doctor/patient relationship . ’ |
| 10 | The geomancers led everyone to take their eye from the ball and fix instead on an illusory bubble that burst at about 2am on Friday . |
| 11 | This is a growing burden , given the government 's devolution of geriatric and mental care on to the ‘ community ’ while actually failing to provide support and relying instead on the voluntary services of women in the family . |
| 12 | These positions have it in common that they express a view about how company law should regulate corporate power in the public interest : by introducing social welfare considerations as explicit decision-making criteria , or by excluding them and relying instead on the benign effects of the invisible hand , guided where necessary by external legal controls . |
| 13 | He accused the West of ignoring the plight of the Asian refugees and concentrating instead on the Western nationals held in Kuwait and in hotels in Baghdad . |
| 14 | Hilary was too young for that , and sat instead on a swing in the front garden of the Headmaster 's House , watching the secondary-modern-school pupils flock by to their separate schools . |