"can be instead" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to suggest an alternative as a replacement for something else. For example: "He had planned to have pizza for dinner but decided to have salad can be instead."
Maybe it is because most would prefer to "be all you can be" instead of being "an Army of one".
It can be, instead, a contest between two great athletes, with nothing, really, at stake besides winning or losing.
Instead of talking about what men and boys can be, instead of starting an honest conversation about what masculinity means, there is a conspiracy of silence around these issues that is only ever broken by conservative rhetoric and lazy stereotypes.
It further consumes precious development resources that can be instead assigned to implementing essential product features.
These clocks are not necessarily all given by the environment, and can be instead computed by the system from the given ones.
The minimum initial quality can be instead regarded as a parameter that allows to determine initial bit budget, which is assigned in an unbalanced way and, by complement, the residual bit budget, which is assigned on a fair basis.
Alternatively, PBS can be used instead of HCl, without significantly impairing the quality of the patterns.
Alternatively, immunoprecipitation can be performed instead of interactome fishing with immobilized key interactors.
Alternatively, estradiol can be used instead of OC to obtain similar results.
Larousse's recipe opts for shortcrust but concedes that "Alternatively, puff pastry can be used instead".
Why be consort when you can be king instead?
