Example sentences of "but rather [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not Leavis 's goal to produce " national intellectuals " to serve as state missionaries , but rather a free.floating and critical educated class , membership of which is characterized by a particular kind of mental orientation : " It is an intelligence so trained that is best fitted to develop into the central kind of mind , the co-ordinating consciousness , capable of performing the function assigned to the class of the educate . " |
| 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 . |
| 7 | The circumstance which offended most of the Yek who heard of it was not the attempt on Alexei 's life , but rather the means which had been employed . |
| 8 | They develop a theory of selective behaviour which does not specify what bureaucrats ' preferences are , but rather the means they use to satisfy them . |
| 9 | My question however concerns not accuracy in labelling but rather the means whereby an exhibit of objects might draw on theories of ‘ otherness ’ in order to explore the role of design in the production of identity . |