Example sentences of "but rather the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | coast of Benbecula and S. Uist ( Ritchie , 1966 , 1979 , 1985 ; Currie , 1979 ) also suggest that the frequency of westerly storms must have been less prior to 4000 B.P. As Currie ( 1979 p. 227 ) suggests , ‘ the stumps remaining are not likely to be an indication of forest , but rather the evidence of such sheltered locations where small woods survived the climatic conditions , often in areas which are now submerged by the sea ’ . |
| 2 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 3 | However , the decline in regular formal inspection did not mean the abandoning of inspection but rather the development of a variety of types suited to particular purposes . |
| 4 | This is not the language meaning ( the words or syntax of the language ) but rather the message meaning or intended meaning of the speaker . |
| 5 | There are strong grounds for limiting the sample size of the investigation because it is not the number of countries per se which is usually important , but rather the range of variation which they provide ( Walker , 1967 ) . |
| 6 | The overview of agreements does not give a direct picture of this process , but rather the framework within which such influence may take place . |
| 7 | He can then argue that once one has advanced beyond the superstition that all desire is for oneself having pleasure , one has no reason of principle for denying the apparent fact that some desire is directed at occurrences not involving oneself at all , but rather the welfare of others . |
| 8 | Newco is certainly not in a position to confer any benefit on management , but rather the managers create their own opportunity by forming Newco and subscribing the initial shares in it . |
| 9 | It is not only overt actions which are reprehensible , but rather the thoughts of the heart and that attitude of rebellion against God which characterise us all ( Rom. 3:9–20 ) . |
| 10 | This is not the result of incompetence , but rather the consequences of an understandable ignorance . |
| 11 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 12 | Recall from Figures 15–6 and 15–8 that the efficient quantity of pollution is not zero but rather the level at which the social marginal cost of cutting back pollution equals its social marginal benefit . |
| 13 | It is not , then , writing per se that has the qualities of explicitness and lack of ambiguity which Olson is attempting to locate , but rather the languages specifically designed for this purpose , of which certain aspects of literacy are a part . |
| 14 | The theme of an it-structure is not It but rather the element which occurs after the verb to be . |
| 15 | This last comment does n't mean that we can strap on our sixshooters and holsters , but rather the guns of the artillery are on call if we should have a chance to use them . |
| 16 | Important , too , although not always easy to evaluate , is the evidence which we may call literary , not merely the chronicles , but rather the tracts , pamphlets , newsletters and even poetry through which people expressed their ideas and views , as well as their emotions , on contemporary issues and problems , which might be the need for government to be better managed , hope of peace , or the criteria according to which society 's military leaders should be chosen . |
| 17 | He never rehearsed the performance , but rather the technique of the music , leaving his emotional response to the inspiration of the concert and expecting a well-prepared orchestra to be entirely responsive to this . |
| 18 | These are not the immutable basis of our world but rather the constructs we create to produce a stable world of subject and object within which to act . |
| 19 | Simon was not trying to buy the Holy Spirit but rather the ability to impart the Holy Spirit . |
| 20 | Not the lofty creation of some Turin styling studio , but rather the realisation of men with rather higher ideals . |
| 21 | For Marx , the state did not represent a general or universal interest , but rather the interests of a dominant class . |
| 22 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 23 | Very often it is not the toy by itself that will provide a mathematical experience but rather the way in which it is being used either on its own or in conjunction with other things . |
| 24 | Indeed , Derrida 's quarrel with classical structuralism does not concern its Saussurean inspiration , but rather the way in which it has unwittingly betrayed the very principle on which the Saussurean revolution was founded . |
| 25 | It is not the entirely understandable worries about the choice of South Africa as the tournament venue when that country is in so delicate a political — and hence economically sensitive — state , but rather the veil of secrecy that seems to shroud all commercial aspects of the next World Cup event . |
| 26 | What ensured regular Parliaments after 1689 was not any legal constraints imposed by the Declaration of Rights , but rather the Crown 's chronic shortage of money and its dependence upon Parliament for taxation . |
| 27 | Death , too , was not the end , but rather the beginning of a new phase of existence . |
| 28 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 29 | It is not the purpose of this book to study these problems , but rather the changes that in an earlier century began to alter our attitude towards death . |
| 30 | For days now there had been no news from France , evidence that the Emperor had forbidden all traffic over the border , but that silence did not necessarily suggest an immediate invasion , but rather the concealment of exactly where the French forces concentrated . |