Example sentences of "[conj] rather [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance of this epic was not as a record of the past , but rather as a means of ensuring the theologico-political supremacy of Marduk in the present . |
| 2 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Detection is important , however , but rather as a means of monitoring compliance and of enhancing prevention ; indeed the commitment to repair of a potential source of harm produces a concern for the effectiveness of enforcement procedures in securing conformity . |
| 4 | Some observers believed that the new formation should not be viewed as a permanent body , but rather as a means for the republics to escape the central power exercised by the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Perception is not conceived as a direct grasping of an occurrence here but rather as the means by which the perceiver obtains a resulting impression which may or may not correspond to what actually happened . |