Example sentences of "rather for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Détournement and dérive ( drifting ) are thus reclaimed in terms of their contemporary relevance , or rather for the extent to which they influenced punk and the camp and erudite artistic radicalism which exploited it . |
| 2 | Recent surveys in the Lake District have shown that the majority of visitors do not come for these ‘ tourist attractions ’ but rather for the fresh air and breathtaking scenery . |
| 3 | No fast should be undertaken against an opponent ; it should be undertaken rather for the good of those near and dear to the person who fasts . |
| 4 | But as Ted Sandy-man ought to have realised , ‘ you 've got to have grist before you can grind ’ ; machine-masters end up machine-minders , and all for nothing , or rather for an insidious logic of expansion . |
| 5 | No less hierocratic than Pecham , Winchelsey eagerly supported the king with clerical taxes when the realm was in danger and when papal decree or canon law did not prevent it ; in 1295 and late in 1297 he evinced an almost unseemly — and not widely shared — enthusiasm to assist the king with clerical subsidies , but much of his tenure is remembered rather for his resistance to the crown 's efforts to tax the clergy . |
| 6 | I quote the case of my own area of the Wirral , again not because it is unique , but rather for the very opposite reason . |
| 7 | As stressed earlier , I am not arguing for a revived regional geography per se , but rather for ‘ a regional perspective that informs all geographical activity ’ Johnston , 1990b , p. 135 ) . |
| 8 | Therefore , the businessmen on our list have been chosen not merely for their money-making skills , but rather for the influence they can bring to bear . |
| 9 | ( i ) The plaintiffs challenge the validity of the section 39 notice , on the footing that it was not issued for the purpose of the Bank exercising its own supervisory functions under the Act , but rather for the purpose of enabling the U.S. Federal Reserve Board to pursue its own inquiries in relation to its own functions as the U.S. regulatory authority ; it is also contended that the notice is defective in form . |
| 10 | Moreover , the inverse intensity of N-Oct 5 bands seen with the different expression constructs argue against the proteolytic processing mechanism but rather for a different transcript structure that affects accessibility of the AUG translation initiation sequences . |
| 11 | It er We had to be it was a closed shop , that was , and er I er I was the er I was the secretary for er for our Chairman rather for ou our er local local branch , for the Nottingham area branch of er USDOR you see ? |
| 12 | Nothing there for grieving , no , rather for gratitude and thanksgiving . |
| 13 | The pluralist discussing large-scale societal issues of this sort does not argue for decisional methods or observation of group interaction but rather for the supposedly inevitable , though always incomplete , diffusion of central values , so that understanding political power is a matter of charting the spread or decline of these values . |
| 14 | When the station arrangements at Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia were reorganized in 1960 , a special African station was built near the African locations , ostensibly for the convenience of African travellers but , one suspects , rather for the comfort of the Whites , who secured more exclusive use of the main Bulawayo station with its important connections to Salisbury , the Victoria Falls , and through Bechuanaland to Kimberley and the Cape . |
| 15 | He was intensely interested in other people 's inner lives ; he read autobiographies , especially diaries , not as a voyeur but rather for reassurance . |
| 16 | Insisting that the Platform was not fighting against the party but rather for its " democratic renewal aimed at adapting it to a multiparty system " , Shostakovsky called on Platform supporters to remain inside the CPSU until after the congress ( a view endorsed on April 12 by leading radical Boris Yeltsin ) , and criticized a call made by fellow Democratic Platform leader Igor Chubais on April 11 for Platform supporters to resign their CPSU membership immediately . |
| 17 | On the other hand , we certainly are not looking for the bland , but rather for the anodyne which is also intriguing and interesting and has a sense of positive enthusiasm . ’ |
| 18 | In a sense the music existed rather for the participants than the hearers ; thus they wished only to be helped , or nudged , not commanded , when in danger of error . |
| 19 | Here , it is not doing duty for a use of rhinoceros but rather for a mention of it . |