Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] instead of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVEN in these less affluent times , there are those who are happy to buy expensive , muddy carrots instead of bright orange ones at half the price , or an expensive piece of beef instead of a cut-price special offer . |
| 2 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 3 | It is a spin-off from development work done on the Kodak disc camera , which has a circular disc of film instead of a roll , and lets very amateur photographers take usable photographs in unfavourable light . |
| 4 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 5 | These show how the data trend is shifted if φ is calculated using the value of u τ that would exist in the absence of stratification instead of the actual value . |
| 6 | I was n't keen on the deep-fried banana served with many fish dishes , and the habit of using photos of food instead of a menu . |
| 7 | ‘ People who buy these pale impressions of literature instead of the real thing are bound to be disappointed sooner or later . ’ |