Example sentences of "[conj] rather a [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | We seem to be seeing , in the fossils , an arms race , or rather a series of restarting arms races , between carnivores and herbivores . |
2 | What we have is not one , ongoing Parliament , but rather a series of parliaments , each now limited in its life to five years ( Parliament Act 1911 , s.7 ) . |
3 | The Helsinki ‘ Final Act ’ was not a binding treaty but rather a series of pledges . |
4 | When tracing the various political , constitutional and religious developments which made the age of Walpole very different from the Restoration , we shall discover not one watershed when everything changed at once , but rather a series of discrete chronologies of change . |
5 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
6 | The most dramatic new facility is the blend tool which is not a kitchen utensil but rather a means of modifying one form or colour into another . |