Example sentences of "[noun sg] but rather [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This element is lacking in another group of cases , where nothing turns on any prior act of the potential defendant but rather on the delivery of the document to the official of the forum state or its publication at some prescribed place . |
| 2 | The quotas of manpower approvals are not determined by the Central Manpower Committee but rather by the request of individual specialties to the Joint Planning Advisory Committee at the time of the specialty review . |
| 3 | Whereas Levinas , like Habermas , posits an authentic language of expression which abhors the distortions of ‘ rhetoric ’ , Derrida argues that such alterity is constituted not through dialogue but rather through the operation of language itself : Levinas ' transcendence-as-surplus is therefore redefined as a Derridean supplement . |
| 4 | It is simply that the necessary distinctions are not to be found at the level of categorical separation but rather at the level where they are in fact produced , which is that of both general and specific cultural and social orders . |
| 5 | We should be looking not at such practice in the past but rather in the future — more of that later . |
| 6 | In the most recent case , the court was concerned not so much with the deliberate communication of confidential information but rather with the danger posed by the " chance remark " or the " inadvertent " risk of leaking the information . |
| 7 | The liberals of Cadiz were not primarily concerned with a socially desirable redistribution of landed property but rather with the establishment of clear and absolute property rights — the Roman Law notion of jus utendi et abutendi as against the medieval confusions of multiple claims to enjoy the use of the same piece of property . |
| 8 | Therefore one must conclude that the ‘ death line ’ for dry gas is not related to the exhaustion of the source rock coal but rather to the disappearance of good reservoirs due to lack of porosity . |
| 9 | He found the identity for his clown not in the figure of a worker but rather in the form of a man whose sensitivity , grace , almost feminine beauty , charm , clothes , and swagger all hint at a better background and perhaps at social and sexual aspirations . |