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The changing roles in marriage often aren't what many couples plan, but instead are a reaction to unexpected financial pressures.

Broken milkweed plants do not bleed sticky, milky sap, but instead are a glassy molten brown where repaired, betraying the truth of their construction.

So writes Paul Schrader, with glorious lack of amusement, in his book Transcendental Style in Film, in which he notes "motion pictures were not born in religious practice, but instead are a totally profane offspring of capitalism and technology.

Sadly, these ideas are not my own, but instead are a summary of this week's news of animal carnage coming out of the American southland: red-winged blackbirds piling up in the town of Beebe, Arkansas (fireworks victims?), dead fish washing up a hundred miles away in a town called Ozark, and then later, more dead birds in Louisiana; and now news of two million dead fish in Chesapeake Bay.

Thus purified antibodies are not a single chemical entity, but instead are a mixture of highly related compounds.

For the authors, the meetings no longer have anything to do with a new constitution, but instead are a proxy battleground between Zanu-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC.

Second, it is possible that KH cycles are not real phenomena, but instead are an artifact of the methods of data collection or analysis utilized in earlier papers.

It was not really about elevating gays, but instead was a socialist plot to destroy the concept of God.

It is not really a physical feature of a ghostly light, but instead is a hint at the suppression of the "f" sound in "Will-o'-the-wisp".

It could have been a springboard for victory in this relegation scrap but instead was a prelude to defeat and QPR replaced Bolton in the bottom three.

Mesko clarified that his father had never been selected to the N.F.L.'s Pro Bowl, but instead was a professional bowler.