Example sentences of "instead of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rose designs were divided by tracery into geometrical and flowing shapes , instead of the radiating wheel spokes used before . |
| 2 | Baseball fans point out that Jackson bats right-handed and throws left instead of the other way round and was anyway more villain than hero , a theory the film never discusses . |
| 3 | The roles of parents and children gradually become reversed and children start to look after their parents and worry about them instead of the other way around . |
| 4 | It was as if her body was carrying her along , matter over mind , in fact , instead of the other way about . |
| 5 | I thought , if he 'd been the one arriving in my world instead of the other way around , he 'd have thought I was just as stupid ! |
| 6 | Ironic , he thought , that Müller had plunged the knife in to her back instead of the other way round . |
| 7 | As David Nicholson said he 'll be taking orders from the jockey today instead of the other way around . |
| 8 | Would it no be similar to kept taking Dixevit instead of the other ones Doctor ? |
| 9 | The call was intercepted and the Princess of Wales spent the rest of the cruise away from her husband , chosing to eat all her meals with Princes William and Harry instead of the other adults . |
| 10 | He sounded so close he might almost have been in the next room instead of the other side of the Atlantic ocean . |
| 11 | But apart from that oh an extra bath instead of the other bedroom |
| 12 | I imagined conning Wavebreaker into Dartmouth , and taking the power skiff upriver to one of my old and favourite pubs where the ale had real taste instead of the limp-wristed chill of North American beers . |
| 13 | They decided to scale down the experiment and worked with a thinner piece of palladium , an 8 cm × 8 cm × 0.2 cm sheet rolled into a cylindrical shape , and also lowered the current to less than 0.2 amps instead of the 1.5 amp current that blew up the block . |
| 14 | Traditionally , controversy has centred around the question of whether local authorities should adopt best commercial practice , i.e. depreciation accounting , instead of the existing system . |
| 15 | Nu advanced the ingenious suggestion that instead of the existing Commonwealth structure there should be a federation of Socialist states . |
| 16 | At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST . |
| 17 | Unknown to the print unions , Murdoch had also embarked on recruiting electricians to work in his plant instead of the traditional printers . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , the company is persuading people to take just one paper napkin instead of the traditional handful ( usage is down by 40 per cent at one US example ) and asking them to help themselves to just as many vegetables as they think they 'll realistically eat . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the State Services Co-ordinating Commmittee has recommended that secondary schools be run by higher-paid managers instead of the traditional principals , with the right to sack teachers and determine their pay . |
| 20 | The horses are freeze-marked instead of the traditional heat branding . |
| 21 | They had discovered the possibilities of cotton growing in the district ’ and they puzzled their Boer neighbours by their zest for games ( cricket , golf , polo ) and for such strange , unnecessary luxuries as electricity or water plumbing in their homes , or even wrought iron gates instead of the traditional wire strands which had to be laboriously fastened with primitive devices . |
| 22 | Instead of the brilliant sunshine we had had all the week before it had started raining throughout the night and was still falling steadily . |
| 23 | Sub David Cork was brought down by Wes Saunders after Cusack headed down a long punt by Prudhoe , but Cook , taking the responsibility instead of the absent Lee Ellison , blasted his spot kick too close to Gareth Howells and the keeper pushed the ball away . |
| 24 | Today we British eat almost twice the recommended daily amount of protein-rich food — our intake is 100–110g , instead of the safer 56g . |
| 25 | Interest rates would be fixed at 5 per cent instead of the current market level of 10 . |
| 26 | He included measures to restrict MIRAS for homeowners to the new low rate instead of the current 25p level as well as limiting the tax credit on company dividends to the 20p rate . |
| 27 | These are smaller-bodied than the ‘ O ’ series — about an inch narrower and half an inch shallower — and the necks are slightly narrower too , being 43mm at the nut instead of the standard 45mm . |
| 28 | Where secondhand goods were sold regularly under standard terms , the correct approach would be to include a provision equivalent to Precedent 4 in the set , either as an alternative to or instead of the standard clauses applying to the quality standards for new goods . |
| 29 | Instead of the evil-looking robber they expected to see , the two ladies found only a pale , thin child , lying peacefully asleep . |
| 30 | Instead of the 99-year lease on the land he wanted double — 198 years . |