Sentence examples for have been instead from inspiring English sources

I could have been, instead of Matthieu.

What some saw as a strategic choice for partnership with America seems, for the Kremlin, to have been instead a tactical alliance.

It's not quite as daring or dangerous as it might have been: instead, it questions our faith (or lack thereof) in spryly chaotic, shoulder-shrugging fashion.

As for the other questions, that's a lot of places where I should have been instead of where I probably was, in class teaching, or in my office writing.

What I love about this record is how bold this band have been – instead of simply retreading the territory of their extremely successful debut Boys & Girls they've produced a collection of songs that is slick, ambitious and polished to a high gleam by co-producer Blake Mills (late of this parish).

The MPAA and RIAA have spent billions fighting piracy when they should have been instead spending billions to reinvent their constituents' services.

There has been, instead, a cast of gray technocrats with the communications skills of your average university economics professor.

Rock's Broadway invasion has been, instead, a lengthy campaign of attrition, via demographics, shifting tastes and musicians' ambitions.

"The question now is what if he had been, instead of playing lacrosse, on a weight program?" Gardi said.

However, primary and secondary education is compulsory, while ECE has been instead privatized and commercialized since the 1990s.

The involvement of p53 has been instead reported in the transition from the DN to the DP stage.