Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] instead [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've made yourself an enemy for life instead of a friend for life — very clever , that . |
| 2 | In the same way that alternative therapies such as acupuncture have become accepted by the medical profession , the day might come when , to treat your flu , your doctor prescribes a piece of topaz instead of tablets . |
| 3 | EVEN in these less affluent times , there are those who are happy to buy expensive , muddy carrots instead of bright orange ones at half the price , or an expensive piece of beef instead of a cut-price special offer . |
| 4 | When he was directly in front of the car , his father accidentally threw the car into drive instead of reverse . |
| 5 | Imagine a world in which gold and silver were cheap but iron and aluminium were rare , what advantages would there be making a car from gold instead of iron and saucepans from silver instead of aluminium . |
| 6 | She struggled to keep her mind on facts instead of letting it career off in confusion , but her whole vision seemed to be swimming with his devilishly smiling face as he hovered over her , waiting for her answer . |
| 7 | Right , so this is if we incorporate expectations in our model of supply response alright , so instead of saying that the the desired level of supply instead of saying that , we say it 's actually this right , if we actually incorporate expectations specifically alright , then we get a supply response model alright , like this and our hypothesis , y'know cos we do n't know how expectations are formed , right , economics ca n't tell us anything about how expectations are formed are they rational , are they naive , are they adaptive , who knows , nobody knows alright . |
| 8 | Oh , yes those horses come in horse boxes them days bit of luck instead of trains . |
| 9 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 10 | I wanted it to be over , to return to the innocence and freedom of life before the kidnap , for John to be safe , for us all to know some kind of certainty instead of this constant doubt and anxiety , to be able to think of the future again . |
| 11 | Fans shouted ‘ cut ’ as the star started describing an earlier film , Witness , as exciting and a must for cinemagoers instead of praising his latest blockbuster . |
| 12 | Alternatively , they may continue to worry about their initial error of judgement instead of making a revised plan of action to get into a good position for the base leg and approach . |
| 13 | Autumn launch : BMW is breaking with tradition by going outside the factory for a 650 Rotax engine with chain-drive instead of shaft for its new trail bike . |
| 14 | On the main highway leading to Charleroi and Brussels the Dragoons were clattering along at a fine pace , almost as if this was an exercise in Provence instead of war . |
| 15 | As Poulter points out , this is in line with the modern ethos of concentrating on the broadly educational role of RE , which is underlined by the reference to RE instead of ‘ religious instruction ’ to which the 1944 Act referred previously . |
| 16 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 17 | Simon Povoas , the replacement on Saturday , stands in for Richards again and Jez Harris , a bench reserve of late , gets a run at outside-half instead of Ainscough . |
| 18 | ‘ I have got an appointment for young Walker for Madras instead of Bombay which I am sure will please his friends ’ , David Scott told his agent in St. Andrews , on one occasion . |
| 19 | We approach it in a hit-and-miss sort of way instead of through a systematic communication programme . |
| 20 | It is a spin-off from development work done on the Kodak disc camera , which has a circular disc of film instead of a roll , and lets very amateur photographers take usable photographs in unfavourable light . |
| 21 | The 7th , D , falls to C as part of the chord of F instead of the expected A minor . |
| 22 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 23 | Cos if they were trying to get peasant support and erm showing the importance of peasants instead of the United Front they would 've made it public . |
| 24 | Carrying out a siege in Brazil against rebels , Tom and Gerald , happy to be put in charge of cannon instead of their earlier muskets , describe their efforts against the stone walls of the enemy as ‘ very good fun ’ and are mildly reproved by Archie , who cries , ‘ I do n't call that fun ’ , as : |
| 25 | Hill blasted critics who believe he could have blocked the Frenchman 's passing move in Montreal instead of moving across to allow him room to go through . |
| 26 | She spoke , Ruth thought , as if she were the mistress of a large establishment in London instead of a country vicar 's wife in a remote Yorkshire dale . |
| 27 | Former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , speaking in The Hague on May 15 , warned that " the problem of German power has again surfaced " and argued in favour of a looser , broader confederation in Europe instead of " a centralized superstate " . |
| 28 | We suggested in the last chapter that in some situations you might think about producing a lecture on video instead of recording it as it happens . |
| 29 | The Rational Audio Aura 01 is a Czech-made deck with a parallel tracking arm ( which moves across the record on rails instead of pivoting from one end ) , bizarre retro-styling and an idiosyncratic sound . |
| 30 | This involves the court ordering a third party who owes your debtor money to pay that money into court instead of to your debtor . |