Example sentences of "but rather [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the unconscious means anything whatsoever , it is that the relation of self and others , inner and outer , can not be grasped as an interval between Polar and opposites but rather as an irreducible dislocation of the subject in which the other inhabits the self as its condition of possibility . |
| 2 | This functionalist style views law not as a phenomenon which exists on an altogether different plane to government but rather as an instrument which is part of the apparatus of government . |
| 3 | The alternative view sees constitutions not as a conscious creation but rather as an evolutionary consequence made up of ‘ substantive principles to be deduced from a nation 's actual institutions and their development ’ ( McIlwain , ibid . ) . |
| 4 | Gramsci saw the dichotomy between the two not as a centre-periphery relationship but rather as an aspect of the way in which the interests of monopoly capital used the state to keep the undeveloped areas repressed and passive ; Gramsci describes the south variously as ‘ a semi-colonial market ’ , a ‘ source of savings and taxes ’ and a ‘ pool of cheap docile reserve labour ’ . |
| 5 | Aboriginals , it was true , could not imagine territory as a block of land hemmed in by frontiers : but rather as an interlocking network of " lines " or " ways through " . |
| 6 | This has nothing to do with NHS reforms but rather with an excess of tender concern on my part . |
| 7 | And not a thing of beauty , but rather like an ex-pugilist . |
| 8 | Worried staff at the centre called in the police , who instructed Mrs Duncan to make her speech not in front of the centre but rather in an unobtrusive site on another street 175 yards away . |