Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] instead of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world is a treasure house of free delights ; beyond music and poetry are painting and sculpture and these are only the arts ; the joys that come from the mystics compared to those from the arts are like seeing masterpieces instead of prints . |
| 2 | We got charge accounts at Max 's Kansas City , we got a charge account with a limousine service — we rode limousines instead of taxis because we did n't have to pay for limousines and we 'd have to pay the taxis — so we were always in limousines . |
| 3 | The E flat , which uses clarinets instead of oboes , one flute , and pairs of bassoons , horns , trumpets and drums , is a spacious and serene work of grace and charm ; the G minor , which restricts its wind to one flute and pairs of oboes , bassoons and horns ( to which Mozart later added clarinets ) , has a driving , almost tragic urgency , relaxing only in the exquisite slow movement ; while the majestic ‘ Jupiter ’ , the summit of Mozart 's symphonic achievement , has an expansive grandeur crowned by a magnificent contrapuntal finale . |
| 4 | Variations are possible like DXCP and DXYCP ( also different X-positioning ) , DYPP ( pixel positioning ) and DYSP ( using sprites instead of chars ) . |
| 5 | Look for natural materials such as cloth , leather , natural fleece and metal , and consider buying books instead of toys . |
| 6 | In the 1970s the word was excursion , even then hardly fashionable , conveying an image of day trips to Blackpool and kiss-me-quick hats , of FA Cup tie specials ( when football supporters swung rattles instead of knives ) , and of the classical BR Sunday Mystery Tour , when for ten and sixpence , you could be pretty certain of finishing up at Barry Island ( again ) . |
| 7 | ‘ If Ally McCoist , Ian Durrant and Paul McStay had been born bambinos instead of bairns , they would all now be in the Italian first division and commanding the same prices . |
| 8 | Claire was wearing stockings instead of socks that summer , and her legs looked funny . |
| 9 | The 165 staff have also been told to use buses instead of taxis and cut down on phone calls to clear a £15 million overdraft . |
| 10 | I have dusted down others and given them sacrilegious new twists , incorporating nuts into rolypoly , for example , and using kumquats instead of lemons for old-fashioned Sussex Pond Pudding . |
| 11 | The second reiterates this in a slightly different language using symbols instead of words . |
| 12 | Some tips to get you started include using stairs instead of lifts and enjoying more sedate forms of exercise , such as bowling or the nonviolent martial arts designed to keep you trim . |
| 13 | Some tips to get you started include using stairs instead of lifts and enjoying more sedate forms of exercise , such as bowling or the nonviolent martial arts designed to keep you trim . |
| 14 | The judicial system now had to protect creditors instead of debtors . |
| 15 | Their finger tips were sensitive and had flattened nails instead of claws . |
| 16 | We 'll have potatoes instead of moths , which makes a lot more sense . ’ |
| 17 | Crew 's duties were signified by running numbers instead of letters and the livery was slightly simplified . |
| 18 | You 're gon na have beans instead of tomatoes , yeah ? |
| 19 | Profits , turnover , enquiries , for instance can be presented on a monthly , quarterly or annual basis , using percentages instead of actuals , in grouped format , as an index and so on . |
| 20 | Closer to them , it was possible to make out individual characteristics ; to see that they had trailing leaves instead of hair and huge , reaching branches instead of arms . |
| 21 | It all fell apart when UKIAS , the agency that was going to represent refugees instead of lawyers , disintegrated in front of Baker 's eyes . |
| 22 | PEOPLE were urged yesterday to start taking showers instead of baths to avert disaster for the wildlife of rivers , lakes and wetlands as the country suffers its worst drought for 200 years . |
| 23 | Life will be much pleasanter and smoother if we become resigned to that fact , if we become friends instead of enemies . " |
| 24 | Suddenly last autumn , he began reaching semi-finals instead of quarter-finals , and then finals . |
| 25 | Kitted out in old-fashioned sky -blue and navy quartered shirts instead of pinstripes , sequins and chevrons , Wycombe spurn modern methods of airborne football — as befits a disciple of Clough . |
| 26 | Quantum mechanically the same sort of experiment , using electrons instead of marbles and an electric rather than gravitational barrier , does not produce such clear-cut results . |
| 27 | Damien , 18 : ‘ My first memory of nuns is getting lines at school for making scones instead of buns in cookery ! |
| 28 | And you just think you know you like you 've put metres instead of centimetres on the |
| 29 | I can see no more reason to doubt but that these causes in a thousand generations would produce a marked effect , and adapt the form of the fox to catching hares instead of rabbits , than that greyhounds can be improved by selection and careful breeding . |
| 30 | I wondered why the best-off nation in the world should have chosen showers instead of baths . |