Example sentences of "[vb -s] instead [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Roberts owns up that his book will probably lose money , because it does n't deal in big secrets , and says instead that there is no secret . |
| 2 | The practical consequence of this must be that the individual who in his personal development has not mastered his basic instinctual drives but finds instead that the state masters them for him experiences none of the narcissistic gratifications of self-mastery but all of the privations which the agencies of state control enforce on him . |
| 3 | Not quite able to turn this down , he insists instead that I telephone him on Saturday morning to confirm . |
| 4 | Workshops are generally conducted with the participants sitting round in a circle of rocking chairs , which dismiss the idea of ‘ teachers and taught , ’ and stresses instead that everyone there brings knowledge to share . |
| 5 | But Marx opposes this approach , on the grounds that human needs do not spring out of nothing , and suggests instead that a theory must be constructed which has no ‘ starting-point ’ . |
| 6 | Since the masked word could not be identified this semantic priming effect calls into question the usual explanations of masking ( Turvey , 1973 ) and suggests instead that a mask does not necessarily interrupt visual processing but prevents the appearance of a word " in consciousness . |
| 7 | Dr Ward suggests instead that canal construction was more generally related to the level of economic activity , slackening with the economy for example from the mid 1770s to 1782 . |
| 8 | It suggests instead that pollution management could be handled by private enterprise , " as in MOT testing " . |
| 9 | Hubble argues instead that the Universe is expanding , and every galaxy is flying away from every other . |
| 10 | We have already seen how Althusser rejects the claim that individuals are intentional subjects , and argues instead that this self-perception is a result of ideological practice . |
| 11 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 12 | He argues instead that the history of the family is discontinuous , evolving several distinct family structures each with its own emotional pattern . |
| 13 | The EDF 's plan is opposed by the Industrial Biotechnology Association , which argues instead that genetic engineering should be subject to the same safety standards as plant breeding . |