Example sentences of "but rather [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not claim that occupation is the same thing as social class , but rather that it is the best single indicator of all those aspects of a person that make up their social class position . |
| 2 | In freud , the point is similarly not just the question — on which most attention gets focused — of whether the event ‘ really ’ happened ( a good copy ) or was subsequently fantasized by the experiencing subject ( a bad copy ) , but rather that it is repeated as a disruptive event that fissures ordinary forms of psychic continuity and therefore gains analytic attention in the present . |
| 3 | It is not that the information in the second version is not true , but rather that it is assumed — and that the witness can assume it is assumed . |
| 4 | What distinguishes the British Constitution from others is not that it is unwritten , but rather that it is part-written and uncodified . |
| 5 | A more structural view is that of Marxist feminist writers who have argued that the family exists , not for the harmonious delight of its members , but rather because it is a source of benefit to capital , since women can be made to labour for free in the reproduction of wage-labourers . |