Sentence examples for but instead very from inspiring English sources

I also started to understand that the space was not masculine, as people presume, but instead very feminine.

"Mr Grade has assured The Times that before leaving the BBC he certainly did not glean every bit of information he could, but instead very properly signed a confidentiality agreement protecting the sensitive information of the BBC, which he has strictly honoured.

With a staff of just over 40, Reuter isn't envisioning a major expansion for EML Research but instead, "very moderate growth".

Instead, "My Happy Life," written by Rose Lagercrantz and illustrated by Eva Eriksson, is one of those joyous rarities: a book about girls who are neither infallible nor pratfall-prone, but who are instead very real — both admirable and relatable.

Thus, despite the presence of an increased number of CD4+CD25+ Treg with a powerful suppressor activity, RA is not suppressed but the disease is instead very active.

It's not a boudoir cliché but instead a very particular, almost childlike and certainly very organic view of fashionable dressing, as if a modern Fanny Brawne had conceived it.

But instead, the very notion of harm reduction inflames them.

I had hoped to spend a few days finding a flat, sorting a press pass and setting up a phone contract, but instead my very first experiences of Cairo involved wheezing on teargas and dodging stones hurled at the barricades".

Six months before his 60th birthday, and for the first time in his adult life, he was suddenly no longer Mr BP but instead a very publicly out gay man.

For some regimes fascist or communist, for example this is not perceived as a danger at all but, instead, the very purpose of their forms of civic education.

On a sluggish pitch, they deployed the method that had worked so well for Bell, refusing to force the issue but instead playing very late, scoring lots of runs through third man and taking singles wherever possible.