Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] instead of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words — in , to be precise , the words of the public relations bureau of the Cucumber and Tomato Marketing Board — the tomato which commands the highest price is an all-purpose ( or is it non-purpose ? ) product ; " not every mouth " and I quote " can afford to choose caviare instead of kippers or an aristocratic difficult low yielding variety of tomato rather than a less fastidious tomato with a heavy yield . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The judicial system now had to protect creditors instead of debtors . |
| 4 | It all fell apart when UKIAS , the agency that was going to represent refugees instead of lawyers , disintegrated in front of Baker 's eyes . |
| 5 | We 'd have white tie and tails to say Mass instead of vestments and you 'd all be answering ‘ OK ’ instead of ‘ Amen ’ ! |
| 6 | The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders . |