Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campaigners , backed by Ms Eagle , say the landing stage could be repaired for £1.5m instead of the £10m quoted by Merseytravel . |
| 2 | Recoveries should be pursued against Airlines regardless of the amount . |
| 3 | In Britain the populist , anti-intellectual pressure has come from government instead of from the people . |
| 4 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 5 | They are depicted on coins particularly of the period of the Roman empire , and especially for the two hundred years between AD 50 and 250 . |
| 6 | The collections are dominated by seeds probably of the mustard and caper families , Zizyphus stones , grass grains , and seeds of leguminous plants ; the unidentified material consists of many examples of a few types . |
| 7 | This mill was built of brick instead of stone like the Old Mill in the village , and the original six-storey building survives among the extensions built around it , with Arkwright 's peculiar staircase projection with Venetian and small semi-circular windows standing out from the sea of square-headed windows on either side , and with a cupola above . |
| 8 | Stok tied his tie , using all the muscles of his fingers as though it was made of metal instead of cloth . |
| 9 | Elasmobranchs , such as sharks and rays , are a very ancient group of fish that have a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bone . |
| 10 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 11 | If a decision can be made about a partial solution after every three words , say , then a search space with two words at every choice point could be searched with paths instead of paths , an exponential saving . |
| 12 | Overweight is caused by eating more energy-giving foods than are needed , so that the excess is turned into fat instead of being burned up . |
| 13 | Floppy discs from the design computer can be inserted directly into the machine enabling a sample to be made within hours instead of days . |
| 14 | SPEAKER of the House of Commons , Betty Boothroyd , has yet again made a change in the running of Westminster , by ensuring that menus for her official dinners are written in English instead of French , the traditional language of banquets . |
| 15 | Another problem is how to modify the levels of nutrients which are often included in hydroponic systems where plants are grown in water instead of soil . |
| 16 | These facts will be irrelevant if no unit larger than the grapheme is used to read aloud , because a standard rule ea — ‘ ee ’ will be applied to ea regardless of what other graphemes exist in the non-word . |
| 17 | He expected to demonstrate that social support was related to depression independently of stress ( Figure 4.3A ) . |
| 18 | I hue written at length elsewhere of the peculiarity and wastefulness of the Western habit of argument and clash . |
| 19 | But a lot of the evidence which convicted the gang was found in rubbish left outside Lawless Cottage , collected by detectives instead of the bin men . |
| 20 | Although built by Brush instead of Milnes , the bodies of these cars were almost identical to those of Corporation Nos. 46–55 . |
| 21 | They can be used for assessment independently of training . |
| 22 | Any Mobs may be armed with crossbows instead of bows at an additional cost of +1 point per model . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In Uruguay , Thinking Day is celebrated in May instead of February . |
| 25 | Accordingly , social policy need not be interpreted in terms either of the continuous evolution of a welfare state inspired by humanitarian ideals or of a conspiracy to manipulate a powerless proletariat . |
| 26 | It can also be used in cakes instead of the usual solid fats — as in this wonderful recipe for tangy orange cake ( if you prefer , you could alternatively use soya , sunflower or any other vegetable oil ) . |
| 27 | Later , plain biscuits were used in Edenderry instead of bread . |
| 28 | For these reasons , and because it is so easy to change the screen size of a shot by zooming in or out without stopping for a cut , the zoom ( and the pan ) are often used by amateurs instead of a straight cut . |
| 29 | The DSS has a statutory duty to pay benefits of a given level approved by Parliament regardless of the level of sickness or unemployment that may arise in any one year . |
| 30 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |