Example sentences of "instead [prep] [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than because if you settle , if you , you let the , the joints settle , instead of being nice and smooth , they get all rough and the other bones knit in |
| 2 | Dan became apologetic , taking the guide 's side , saying how much they had looked for her , instead of being protective and angry as he should have been . |
| 3 | Fabia drove down to Dover unhappily , not liking herself very much that , instead of being co-operative when Cara had so much else to worry her , she had been a shade obstructive . |
| 4 | Just being able to enjoy it more instead of being scared and worrying when people were going to find out . |
| 5 | Instead of being human and down-to-earth , faith becomes a fragrant , concentrated essence . |
| 6 | When children are thirteen or fourteen instead of being excited and stimulated by subjects such as physics and chemistry , they 're bored by them , and many of the brightest minds turn away to history or english , the arts and humanities . |
| 7 | The frequency changes as the train passes and the high note is when the train is coming towards us and the low one when the train is going away , and you get the same effect with light except that instead of being high and low it 's blue shifted if the object is coming towards us and red if it 's going away . |
| 8 | The next day , instead of being calm and gentle to ride , he was frightfully excited and pulling much harder than ever before . |
| 9 | So instead of being relaxed and content , he was tenser and less tolerant than ever . |