Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of drumming the trivial facts of physical geography of yesteryear into the heads of reluctant freshmen , introducing classes should teach the concepts of systems analysis and the flows of energy , mass , momentum , and information through various environments of our planet . |
| 2 | Moreover the fractal transform technique provides perceptual resolution independence : zoom in to a picture and instead of getting a blocky , pixellated image , the software gives a realistic effect by actually adding detail in that was n't in the original . |
| 3 | Drawings were altered er instead of getting a whole sheet of a combined er er part of a , a steering gear or whatever it might have been , er they were all itemized and reduced to part pieces , and it was much easier to look , examine and find out what sizes were required than , you know , three dimensional er drawings . |
| 4 | If , we reasoned , there really is a morphogen gradient , it should be possible to weaken the signal by decreasing the concentration , and so , instead of getting an additional set of digits 4 , 3 , 2 at the anterior margin only a 3 , 2 or a 2 should develop . |
| 5 | Instead of taking a huge currency risk by selling imported goods for roubles , Anis should use the devaluation of the rouble to its advantage by exporting . |
| 6 | If membership is voluntary , if the union-set wage is a public good applying to all workers in the sector irrespective of union status , and if there are positive costs to membership , why do workers join the union instead of taking a free ride ? |
| 7 | In the preface to this book Anne and Don Byrne state that instead of taking the usual text book approach to psychology they have ‘ decided to identify those areas of psychology which are directly relevant to the practice of nursing . ’ |
| 8 | For instead of taking the final explanatory step , he leaves them with an unanalysed notion of class strategy . |
| 9 | Think of all the opportunities that are available each day to walk , instead of taking the easy option by using cars , buses , taxis and trains . |
| 10 | We walked the length of the Hall , instead of taking the short cut though the darkened Ophthalmic Department . |
| 11 | He then added : ‘ Although maybe now I 'll just do what he does and fight a bum a month instead of taking the hard fights . |
| 12 | Instead of taking an all or nothing approach based on causation , look at the question in terms of measure of damages and award a percentage . |
| 13 | His churches showed an equally acute awareness of changing fashions : the neo-perpendicular of his fan-vaulted church of St John , Edinburgh ( 1818 ) , which challenged comparison with anything in England at that date , was superseded by the elegant Early English and neo-Norman of the numerous churches he built for the Duke of Buccleuch in the 1830s , and in 1843 by the mid-Decorated of his St Mary 's , Dundee , in which he reproduced in a much richer form the arcades and clerestory of the burned-down medieval church instead of building the usual preaching box desired by presbyterian divines at that time . |
| 14 | Instead of building an unnecessary motorway link between the M56 , M6 and M62 the money should instead should be spent on up-grading the west coast main line . |
| 15 | Lotus ' combo box widget combines a drop-down list and a type-in text field , enabling developers to use off-the-shelf widgets instead of creating the same combination each time . |
| 16 | Instead of cherishing a liberal conception of the individual , they direct their attention to the social regularities which control classes of people . |
| 17 | Instead of maintaining a fixed rate or parity against the dollar , other major currencies were allowed to float in the foreign exchange market . |
| 18 | Instead of maintaining the general domain of a text topic and preserving partial results to form hypotheses about new words and meanings , most natural language programs preserve little or nothing from one sentence to the next . |
| 19 | Instead of setting the main carriage to Fair Isle , it is set to slip , so while the pattern stitches are knitted the background stitches are slipped and vice versa . |
| 20 | It has been suggested ( e.g. by Schank , 1977 : 424 ; Maynard , 1980 ) that instead of undertaking the difficult task of attempting to define ‘ what a topic is ’ , we should concentrate on describing what we recognise as topic-shift . |
| 21 | This is a pregnancy where the placenta instead of feeding the fertilised egg ( or later the foetus when it is a partial mole ) feeds itself and grows all out of proportion and has to be removed . |
| 22 | Instead of locating the other elsewhere in the transgressive writing of literature or madness , Foucault himself becomes plato 's banished poet , and enacts in his language a supplementary simulacrum of the delirium of history . |
| 23 | A very mysterious , nasty record , and one that asks whether we 're being used by the powers-that-be by going out raving on E every night instead of overthrowing the rich . |
| 24 | Instead of harvesting the whole cabbage , cut the head leaving a short stump . |
| 25 | I 'd ‘ a thought he 'd at least have the courtesy to send a pony and trap for me instead of expecting an old lady to walk all the way up to Handley Farm on such a frosty morning . ’ |
| 26 | All but one of the females produced broods over the weeks , but the smallest female filled up with fluid and died instead of delivering the expected babies . |
| 27 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 28 | A female , instead of manufacturing the maximum number of eggs that can be created from her bodily reserves , may produce rather fewer but give each one a better chance of survival by supplying it with food in some way , so that it is sustained during its first difficult days . |
| 29 | Instead of installing an extra drive , David Dorn installs Xtradrive , IIT 's disk doubling utility . |
| 30 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |