Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "humor" ¶ 86
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Instead and being
Instead of being limited to the poor training facilities in remote areas, the student would be able to move to large institutions of concentrated specialized training.
Instead of Catholics' being obliged or even encouraged to beget the greatest possible number of offspring, as many Non-Catholics imagine, the ideal of responsible parenthood is stressed.
Instead, inheriting phobias would have restrictive and debilitating effects upon survival, rather than being an aid.
Instead, all services had names which, being chosen by humans, could be expected to be meaningful to users, and also could be sufficiently long enough to minimize the chance of conflicts.
Instead of the light being placed at right angles in relation to the line of vision, Both started moving it to a diagonal position from the back of the picture.
Instead of being abstracted from individual perceptions, like empirical concepts, they originate in the mind itself.
Instead of the meetings always being held in London, they would rotate across the membership, subject to countries ' ability to host the meetings: beginning with Singapore in 1971.
Instead of records being stored in some sort of linked list of free-form records as in Codasyl, Codd's idea was to use a " table " of fixed-length records.
Instead of all nodes being considered equal, nodes entering into the network were kept at the ' edge ' of the network as a leaf, not responsible for any routing, and nodes which were capable of routing messages were promoted to ultrapeers, which would accept leaf connections and route searches and network maintenance messages.
Instead of being confined to a circle, javelin throwers are provided with a runway wide and at least in length, ending in a curved arc from which their throw will be measured ; athletes typically use this distance to gain momentum in a " run-up " to their throw.
Instead, popular opinion is that they were being clandestinely imported for the southern Sudanese army, which has an arms embargo against it.
Instead, it referred to the process of one's training-the strengthening of the body and the mind, the learning and the perfection of one's skills-rather than to what was being trained.
Instead of being seen as an active external force of unconditional love and salvation, the personage of Guanyin is highly revered as the principle of compassion, mercy and love.
Instead, it envisions the means of production being owned collectively and controlled and managed by the producers themselves.
Instead of being hired by the foodservice establishments like in the previous three categories, performers at foodservice establishments of this category were usually contractors who paid the foodservice establishment to perform on stages and split the earning according to a certain percentage.
Instead of abandoning the magnetron due to its frequency instability, they sampled the output signal and synchronized their receiver to whatever frequency was actually being generated.
Instead of using chairs, one version of the game has players sit on the ground when the music stops, the last to sit being eliminated.
Instead of accepting such fictions, we should recognise that the fact that a being is human, and alive, does not in itself tell us whether it is wrong to take that being's life.
Instead, it seems to be a more-aged development of the brown beers already being made in London.
Instead, all things have a double relation to it, as coming from it ( One ) and then being oriented back towards it to receive their perfection or completion ( Good ).
Instead of dedicating time to fixing the defect, Alcorn decided it gave the game more difficulty and helped limit the time the game could be played ; he imagined two skilled players being able to play forever otherwise.
Instead, all that is relevant are the costs of doing so — which for crimes, reflects the chance of being caught.
Instead of approaching The Hobbit as a children's book in its own right, critics such as Randell Helms picked up on the idea of The Hobbit as being a " prelude ", relegating the story to a dry-run for the later work.
Instead, Deism holds that religious beliefs must be founded on human reason and observed features of the natural world, and that these sources reveal the existence of a supreme being as creator.

Instead and depressed
Instead, he walked to his death with a natural, depressed facial expression.

Instead and by
Instead of that he was engulfed by bedlam.
Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter railroad service decline, and have failed to offer a helping hand.
Instead of closing the house in first ( as most builders do ) you can now cut your costs by not closing it in until you have to ( see p 121 ).
Instead of isolating the literal flatness by specifying and circumscribing it, the pasted paper or cloth releases and spreads it, and the artist seems to have nothing left but this undepicted flatness with which to finish as well as start his picture.
Instead of the usual straggling privet hedges and patches of bare dirt in most small-town squares, the building was hemmed in by a semitropical growth of camellias and azaleas and a smooth lawn the improbably bright-green shade of florist's grass.
Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.
Instead of having a pulp cavity, each tooth has a cluster of thin, upright, parallel tubes of vasodentin ( a modified form of dentine ), with individual pulp canals, held together by cementum.
Instead, the element is prepared, in milligram amounts, by the neutron irradiation of < sup > 226 </ sup > in a nuclear reactor.
Instead, Albert's secularization of the Prussian territories of the Order eventually led to the inheritance of the Duchy of Prussia by the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Instead the two court owned theaters would be reopened under new management, and partly subsidized by the Imperial Court, as a new National Theater.
Instead, it is negotiated by or configured at the endpoints on a per-virtual-connection basis.
Instead of transferring the weight of the bridge and traffic loads into thrust forces into the abutments, the ends of the arches are restrained by tension in the bottom chord of the structure.
Instead, the philosopher encounters a problem :" Now, if the ' to be ' of a thing could be conceived apart from that which exists, it should be represented in our mind by some note distinct from the concept of the thing itself ....
Instead, the phrase appears to have originated in the early 19th century United States ( particularly in the sense " pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps "), to mean an absurdly impossible action, an adynaton.
Instead of a tightly unified storyline, Gerald Mast has seen Chaplin's films as consisting of sketches tied together by the same theme and setting.
Instead, the British Parliament and the Government-chiefly in the office of Prime Minister-exercise their powers under ' Royal ( or Crown ) Prerogative ': on behalf of the Monarch and through powers still formally possessed by the Monarch.
Instead of focusing merely on the individual objects ( e. g., groups ) possessing a given structure, category theory emphasizes the morphisms – the structure-preserving mappings – between these objects ; by studying these morphisms, we are able to learn more about the structure of the objects.
Instead, murder is treated as a civil crime and is covered by the law of retaliation, whereby the relatives of the victim decide whether the offender is punished with death by the authorities or made to pay diyah as compensation.
Instead they act either by deactivating catalysts, or by removing reaction intermediates such as free radicals.
Instead, they developed a daily and weekly service of readings from the Torah, and possibly also the Prophets, followed by commentary.

0.590 seconds.