Example sentences of "instead [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without using any technical transcription system ( the convention .hhh simply means a sharply indrawn breath ) we can capture quite a lot of detail : goin' instead of going , ‘ old instead of hold , ai n't instead of am not all indicate a dialect other than that of standard English . |
| 2 | OK , by now you 've lost valuable time and probably irritated the entire panel by dithering instead of being sure of what you 're going to say , quite apart from getting on with the actual pieces you have learned . |
| 3 | ‘ There was general anticipation of regulations which would insist that more difficult wastes were burned instead of being sent to landfill . ’ |
| 4 | They could , in theory , be collected in another trailer and taken away , instead of being put back on the field . |
| 5 | Instead of being buried at Rokupa cemetery , as is the normal custom with state criminals , the six were buried elsewhere at state expense . |
| 6 | Instead of being obliged , indefinitely , to keep British interest rates higher than domestic conditions warrant , we can join the ERM . |
| 7 | So instead of being outraged , one is left with a resigned smirk . |
| 8 | Instead of being asked , as he must have hoped , whether he would be willing to form a government , he was instead asked whether he would be prepared to serve in a National Government under MacDonald . |
| 9 | His voice , when he spoke , instead of being conciliatory , was angry . |
| 10 | Instead of being terrified of commercial mainstream pop , she 's now manipulating its stereotypes . |
| 11 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 12 | Instead of being made in Taiwan ( Atari ) or Hong Kong ( Commodore ) this is even made in the UK . |
| 13 | ‘ We are toasting missing colleagues who were with us in the buffet and who would have preferred us to do it this way , instead of being sombre , ’ said Mr Christopher Reeves , a consultant engineer who joined the train at Southampton Parkway station . |
| 14 | The Appointments Commission which selects public members will in future also select press members from names proposed ‘ at large ’ , instead of being nominated by the constituent bodies . |
| 15 | Instead of being largely obscured , as it is in the conventional process , the beautiful grain of the timber is highlighted to stunning effect . |
| 16 | Old longline and squid jigging vessels are re-equipped with inexpensive nets instead of being retired , and are sent out to return a few more seasons ' profits . |
| 17 | We do not know , for instance , whether thought might not have a purely material basis , instead of being the unexplained property of an immaterial substance . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , instead of being integrated in a general hospital as planned , the wing will now be left high and dry . |
| 19 | Instead of being a dream of individual salvation through competition , hard work and thrift , it had been perverted by the ‘ tyranny of the majority ’ into putting loyalty to the organization first . |
| 20 | I supposed mainly that , instead of being passive victims of our own reality , we could , through utilising this technique , become masters of it . |
| 21 | The next day , instead of being calm and gentle to ride , he was frightfully excited and pulling much harder than ever before . |
| 22 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 23 | The saving grace here was very much played down : that instead of being taxed , every man at his command had to muster armed under his chief . |
| 24 | Instead of being flattered to share in collective power as one of several million involuntary votes at the party conference , he felt insulted . |
| 25 | Instead of being ashamed of our antiques , he is proud of the old rubbish ! |
| 26 | Thus in our ‘ suicide ’ drama the adolescents , instead of being in role as members of the family concerned , could have been neighbours or reporters getting a good story . |
| 27 | In the ‘ prostitution ’ lesson , instead of being in role as the ‘ other poor people ’ sharing the girl 's life , they could have been social workers , town councillors or students on a counselling training course . |
| 28 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 29 | Secondly , instead of being located in a work situation , these groups are usually based in a community , often a neighbourhood or some form of local grouping . |
| 30 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |