Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] instead of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loves to attack the ball , and is happier in the centre of defence instead of at full back . ’ |
| 2 | We approach it in a hit-and-miss sort of way instead of through a systematic communication programme . |
| 3 | On the face of it , this seems good , but it must be remembered that each tonne used for fuel instead of as a fertilizer means a yield loss of some of 50 kg in grain production , for example . |
| 4 | Mike is finally caught ( through his own recklessness : he pays with cash instead of with plastic ) . |
| 5 | This involves the court ordering a third party who owes your debtor money to pay that money into court instead of to your debtor . |
| 6 | In Britain the populist , anti-intellectual pressure has come from government instead of from the people . |
| 7 | All this , but with examples drawn from chess instead of from whist and bridge , is what Wittgenstein has in mind when he says that the term ‘ language-game ’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity . |
| 8 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 9 | Witches on beach instead of in forest ( at start ) |
| 10 | David Jones of Sharelink has proposed an order-driven system for small value share transactions which would be displayed on investors ' TV screens at home instead of on TOPIC . |
| 11 | He already knew most of the city 's different districts and its short cuts , its sudden changes of place and people ; it was just that now he would see the shop windows shining at night instead of by day , see them gliding past from a car or taxi window as he was driven home for the night . |
| 12 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 13 | The auditors also found Whitehall slow to adapt to new technology , and that millions was spent on correcting letters by hand instead of on word processors . |
| 14 | That so much of the Rio Maas was opened out by sandschooner instead of by plane and caterpillar truck was probably exactly for that reason : because it was a distinctly more perilous way of going about it . |