Example sentences of "instead of [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of profiting from the enormous interest in gambling on football results through the ‘ pools ’ system , the FA 's puritanism led to a futile and absurd confrontation in 1936 , which involved the withholding of fixture lists to frustrate the pools companies . |
| 2 | Indeed , instead of starting from the misleading contrast between ‘ material ’ and ‘ cultural ’ , we have to define two areas for analysis : first , the relations between these material means and the social forms within which they are used ( this is of course a general problem in social analysis , but the discussion is limited , here , to cultural means and forms ) ; and , second , the relations between these material means and social forms and the specific ( artistic ) forms which are a manifest cultural production ( these will be discussed in the succeeding chapters ) . |
| 3 | A form of voice reproduction could be built into the on-line or packaged editions so that pronunciations could actually be heard instead of inferred from the phonetic transcription . |
| 4 | Instead of talking from the stalls to actors in front of one another , he would always shamble up onto the stage with his peculiar hedgehog gait and take them aside separately . |
| 5 | Orford Ness ( Steers , 1953 ) is a spit of a different type : instead of departing from the coast at a marked angle , it runs roughly parallel to the coast for its entire length ( Fig. 8.27 ) . |