Example sentences of "but rather the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all we knew that subsidy did n't exist to subsidise empty seats but rather the necessary and new ideas that were wanted at the time . |
| 2 | He never rehearsed the performance , but rather the technique of the music , leaving his emotional response to the inspiration of the concert and expecting a well-prepared orchestra to be entirely responsive to this . |
| 3 | The man who has achieved that — and has record profits of $4.8bn in 1988 to prove it — is the GM chairman Roger Smith , hardly a charismatic revolutionary , but rather the quintessential GM company man down to his sober suits and clean-cut features . |
| 4 | Within the Tory Party , what ultimately matters is not how many friends you have , but rather the power and strength of your enemies . |
| 5 | The point here is not to exonerate the violent behaviour of certain Liverpool supporters but rather the reverse , i.e. to emphasize the potentially fatal risks which are being run each week in stadia where large and rowdy confrontations of young spectators take place . |
| 6 | This last comment does n't mean that we can strap on our sixshooters and holsters , but rather the guns of the artillery are on call if we should have a chance to use them . |
| 7 | It is not the purpose of this book to study these problems , but rather the changes that in an earlier century began to alter our attitude towards death . |
| 8 | To this great current of faith , life in this world was not an end in itself , but rather the prelude to the life to come . |
| 9 | Death , too , was not the end , but rather the beginning of a new phase of existence . |
| 10 | Perhaps it represents not a past concrete social reality as it actually existed , but rather the ideas men who lived then had about their responsibilities and claims , their liabilities and privileges and freedom . |
| 11 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 12 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 13 | These are not the immutable basis of our world but rather the constructs we create to produce a stable world of subject and object within which to act . |
| 14 | ‘ Federalism is not meant to serve unlimited freedom , but rather the highest possible measure of freedom within a systematic order . |
| 15 | coast of Benbecula and S. Uist ( Ritchie , 1966 , 1979 , 1985 ; Currie , 1979 ) also suggest that the frequency of westerly storms must have been less prior to 4000 B.P. As Currie ( 1979 p. 227 ) suggests , ‘ the stumps remaining are not likely to be an indication of forest , but rather the evidence of such sheltered locations where small woods survived the climatic conditions , often in areas which are now submerged by the sea ’ . |
| 16 | However , when Raymond Plant of Southampton University wrote a Fabian Tract on the subject , he chose to emphasise not the third element in the French Revolutionary triad but rather the third element in T.H. Marshall 's triad of civil , political and social citizenship . |
| 17 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |
| 18 | In the end , it should not be our desire but rather the consciously felt will of our true nature , free of emotional entanglement , that remains as the sole initiator of our action . |
| 19 | This was not a one-off experience but rather the culmination of many experiments , much discussion and thoughtful provision of leading ideas by the teacher . |
| 20 | Very often it is not the toy by itself that will provide a mathematical experience but rather the way in which it is being used either on its own or in conjunction with other things . |
| 21 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 22 | However , the completion of the White Paper Programme and the achievement of the ‘ 1992 ’ objectives is not an end in itself , but rather the accomplishment of one important step in the creation of a truly unified European Economic Community . |
| 23 | According to Ācārya Kripalani the Rāma invoked by Gandhi with his dying breath was not the historical Rāma or the mythological Rāma , but rather the highest Self . |
| 24 | This does not mean ‘ assertive behaviour ’ that ignores the feelings of other people but rather the recognition that they , too , are unique and special . |
| 25 | Then people will do the environmentally ‘ correct' thing , not because it is thought to be the moral , but rather the practical , thing to do . ’ |
| 26 | It explains that accumulated losses do not , of themselves , necessarily require funding by the parent and that a debit balance does not represent an amount receivable from a minority , but rather the net liabilities attributable to the shares the minority shareholders hold in that subsidiary . |
| 27 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 28 | It was to these crucial years , therefore , that I turned attention in an endeavour to understand not the triumphal march of the party as such , but rather the broader cultural structures that laid the foundations for its success . |
| 29 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 30 | Not the lofty creation of some Turin styling studio , but rather the realisation of men with rather higher ideals . |