Example sentences of "but rather by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this would vindicate those who believe that the market 's ills are not going to be solved by tinkering with new issue processes , but rather by a drastic cutback in the overheads — ie , sacking people — being carried by the industry . |
| 2 | More often than not , social disengagement will not have been intentional , and certainly not brought about simply by the process of ageing , but rather by a failure to maintain an adequate level of social life beyond that of being parents . |
| 3 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 4 | The orthodox clerics were distinguished from the Presbyterians and from those dubbed Puritans not by a differing theology of salvation , but rather by the fact that they did not share the intensified spirituality displayed by the latter two groups , a spirituality which Lake and R. T. Kendall have labelled ‘ experimental ’ predestinarianism . |
| 5 | That is , their meanings are not ‘ given ’ by some set of facts , but rather by the way in which these facts are interpreted by observers in a form that makes them recognisable as crimes , mental illnesses or cases of child abuse . |
| 6 | Our claims to knowledge are legitimised not by their origins … but rather by the norms and rules of inquiry itself . |
| 7 | The model of the tap and the glass however explains that for some people their first experience of anxiety symptoms was not caused by any specific frightful encounter but rather by the insidious , unapparent build-up of stress , one drop at a time . |
| 8 | The quotas of manpower approvals are not determined by the Central Manpower Committee but rather by the request of individual specialties to the Joint Planning Advisory Committee at the time of the specialty review . |
| 9 | Thus the essence of the charge is not determined by the nature of the property over which it is created but rather by the degree of freedom accorded to the company to deal with this property in the normal course of business . |
| 10 | Although his authority was undoubtedly derived from the Roman office which he held , the area over which he exercised control seems not to have been determined by any Roman administrative division , but rather by the presence of the Visigoths to the west and by other smaller groups , including Aegidius and his followers , to the north . |
| 11 | One way in which some at least of the problems might be reduced would be if the technology concerned were not promoted and managed by a national agency ( eg the CEGB or electricity board ) but rather by the local authority . |