Sentence examples for instead of the subject from inspiring English sources

If you're not careful in these situations you can find yourself interviewing the translator instead of the subject; but the heat and the smell of open sewers and the close air and the dust and the boredom and the warm sweat running between your shoulder-blades wear down your concentration.

Splashes of paint coat the dust cover, blocking out letters, so instead of the subject's name, it simply reads "ART AHA".

Instead of the subject trying to figure out exactly how much he owes and who to give it to by coordinating it with many other people, the authority simply takes over these tasks, determines what the subject has reason to do and expects the subject to take its authoritative command as a reason instead of the reasons that directly apply to the action.

Second, there is an unusual assignment of semantic role to NPs: instead of the subject NP being identified as the agent of the action the clause describes, that role is assigned to an adjunct at the end of the VP (the by-phrase in (A.ii); an adjunct is a constituent with an optional modifying role in its clause rather than a grammatically obligatory one like subject or object).

Everything they said just illustrated that gap instead of the subject they meant to discus.

Think about your career in terms of the TYPE of WORK you do, instead of the subject.  .

That is, wo in i would be analyzed as the object of zou-de instead of as the subject of lei-si, but lianse 'complexion' in ii would be analyzed as the subject of bian, not as the object of xia-de.

That said, the reviewer has several minor comments to add: Page 2, 2nd column, L12 of 1st paragraph: is instead of are (the subject of the sentence is "The production of…") Page 2, 2nd column, L2 of 3rd paragraph: hypothalamic-hypopituitary complex/system/unit/axis… (choose one word) Page 3, 1st column, L9 of 2nd paragraph: add "reduced"?

The crowd would move on and this website would go back to its normal business of commenting upon the passing cinematic parade, instead of being the subject of comment.

In each, Matisse's bravura handiwork serves the piece instead of becoming the subject of it: the figures stretch and arabesque with a lightness that characterizes the best of the cutouts.

Oldsmobile owners in 1981 were so angered that their cars had been fitted with Chevrolet engines instead of Oldsmobile Rocketss," the subject of another hit song, that they successfully sued G.M. over the swap.