Example sentences of "but rather [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 2 | In contrast , the utility-based argument associated with Buchanan ( 1958 ) does not quarrel with when the resources are used but rather points to the fact that debt-holders have voluntarily taken up the debt and are being compensated for decreased present consumption by the enhanced future consumption that interest and repayment will allow , and hence are not made worse off . |
| 3 | But rather to join in the search for new ways forward for the common future of our society and I suggest you might do worse than try a few committees and working groups on pragmatic coalitions , collaborative democracy and local community . |
| 4 | Now the structures of practices are not always the same , but rather depend upon the various elements of the production processes they contain . |
| 5 | It is clear from these brief analyses that the nature and scope of the context that is constructed for each individual poem does not simply depend on the choice of deictic expressions in the text , but rather results from the combined effect of a wide range of variables , including the content of the text as a whole , and the attitudes and experiences that readers bring to the text or develop during reading . |
| 6 | The book , however , displays considerable skill in the plan on great power , but rather shown in the writing than the matter , and this vigour sustains a species of interest to the last . |
| 7 | It is not the purpose of this book to provide a history of coinage , however brief , but rather to focus on the methods by which coins are studied , for only when these methods are properly understood and applied can we realise the full potential of coins as an aid to interpreting the past . |
| 8 | Her morality is not dictated by patriarchal norms , but rather guided by the belief that women 's needs are her sole concern . |
| 9 | The Maggot did not seem scared , but rather stung by the challenge . |
| 10 | The West Belfast MP said the Stormont discussions were not designed to criticise the police , but rather to relate to the Minister the fear felt in the city . |
| 11 | Surely most people join the National Trust not to further some obscure and cranky cause ( special societies already exist for these causes ) but rather to help in the enjoyment of places of beauty in this country . |
| 12 | The argument in the present book identifies no one set of factors as determining the others , but rather focuses on the separate but interlinked dimensions of society whose appreciation is necessary to understanding . |