Example sentences of "but instead [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish . |
| 2 | Samsung , which has its workstation division in San Jose , California , says it will not compete directly with Hewlett-Packard , but instead develop new markets in areas such as imaging and scientific visualisation . |
| 3 | The Community avoids the approach of harmonising all aspects of licensing and regulation of the conduct of business , but instead establishes essential standards . |
| 4 | Indeed the inclusion of accession and ratification clauses suggests that the parties did not intend to confer third party benefits , but instead desired full commitment to the treaty . |
| 5 | To reduce inventory , Brooks Brothers no longer sells many items in exact sizes but instead designates these items small , medium and large . |
| 6 | They found none but instead discovered medicinal water , unique for its richness in salts of iodine and bromine . |
| 7 | After this she ceased to blame herself for the breakdown of their marriage , but instead expressed considerable anger towards her husband . |
| 8 | Cognitive behaviour is not reducible to simple sequences of contingencies of reinforcement but instead reflects goal-seeking activities , hypothesis making and many other features which had hitherto been dismissed from consideration within the Anglo-American tradition in psychology . |
| 9 | However , it is suggested that the vendor should not adopt this " scatter gun " approach but instead disclose specific information and salient points expressly or by reference . |
| 10 | Thus , ( 43 ) has the same ambiguity as ( 39 ) between predicate qualifier , giving the " cosmetic " version , and this new pattern of interpretation , which must correspond to the " unacquainted " meaning , and the distinction between the two senses of sentences like ( 39 ) should not be written off as a mere matter of " nuances of meaning " , but instead shows one sequence of surface syntax answering to two different intensional patterns . |
| 11 | The theory seems to be that the contract constituted by the articles of association defines the nature of the rights , which , however , are not purely personal rights but instead confer some sort of proprietary interest in the company though not in its property . |