Example sentences of "instead of [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future .
2 Instead of merging with each other , or one of the bigger concerns , in the early seventies three of the smaller firms signed affiliation agreements with the American Big Three as MITI opposition was overcome by political pressure for foreign capital liberalization .
3 Recall is similarly very simple you present the input pattern pushing through the decoders and instead of reading from these memory locations , sorry writing from these memory locations , you read from them okay .
4 However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations .
5 But instead of sticking to this problem , which is interesting in itself , Yockey makes wild extrapolations in a futile attempt to show how the classical concept of information can be applied to problems in generating information .
6 Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC .
7 Instead of looking for more acquisitions , he is focusing on greenfield development in the bathroom and houseware sectors .
8 Surely this must be Howard 's concern instead of looking for another striker .
9 Instead of acting as some source of " alternative expertise " , projects have been run by union committees and have involved releasing both workers representatives and specialists to produce specifications for new technology and associated systems .
10 I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality .
11 Instead of complying with this order , the government ‘ distilled the specific accusations ’ it had identified in Aviv 's report and instructed each of the Federal agencies to respond to that ‘ distillation ’ with declarations that there was nothing to support it .
12 She says , ‘ Only after a woman takes in her stride her mother 's failures of understanding , empathy and availability , instead of responding to these shortcomings with childish indignation , is she ready to become her adult friend …
13 Touch legering means , quite simply , that you hold the line and feel for bites instead of relying on some kind of visual indication .
14 If so desired , there seems no reason why the applicant , instead of applying under this subsection. should not , as an " occupant , " apply for a permanent transfer from the licensing board at a quarterly meeting under subs .
15 Instead of going through each copy to find a particular patter ( one you are always going to knit later ) , I decided to put a sticky label on the bottom right hand corner of the front cover with details of particular patterns .
16 Instead of going through several channels to find suitable applicants , companies can simplify the selection process by going through Beaver Recruitment Brokers which will choose candidates drawn from a range of recruitment agencies .
17 instead of going on that grass .
18 During one meandering discussion Mr Glover wonders aloud why the trio are huddled in a fancy hotel , instead of talking to each other back at the office , like less exalted folk .
19 But I do n't understand why she do n't go home instead of lying on that cardboard .
20 Instead of focusing on this interdependence , as one would expect of a truly dynamic theory , Williamson discusses the efficient resolution of contractual problems that are associated with given techniques of production .
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