Example sentences of "but rather [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of the requirement of standing indicates that the law 's primary concern is not , as such , to control government activity but rather to control it at the suit of persons affected by it in a particular way . |
| 2 | This is not a pocket edition of Pelleas , a cut price version for touring , but rather does it reveal the passion and the pity in the music . |
| 3 | This is not a pocket edition of Pelleas , a cut-price version for touring , but rather does it reveal the passion and the pity in the music . |
| 4 | My mother 's story on the other hand was told to me much earlier , in bits and pieces throughout the fifties , and it was n't delivered to entertain but rather to teach me lessons . |
| 5 | Do n't encourage this , but rather help him by summarising and re-phrasing his contribution in a gentle and inoffensive way . |
| 6 | If ratings are good at picking out enduring themes , while detailed observations are indispensable to explanations of how these themes arise , then the best analytical method should not choose between splitting and lumping but rather combine them . |
| 7 | ‘ Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them . ’ |
| 8 | ( ii ) It is probably clear to the reader that , although we are trying to work formally and to assume nothing other than that given , we do not choose our definitions of unc and unc in a perfectly random fashion , but rather make them reflect what we want to happen . |
| 9 | Thirdly , the invocation of the fiduciary duty concept does not , of itself , provide the courts with the answer , but rather forces them to answer an extremely difficult question . |
| 10 | ‘ The best design strategy is not to program a computer directly with the wealth of descriptive detail that constitutes a natural language but rather to give it the basic set of expectations and abilities that are needed to learn a language . ’ |
| 11 | Government policy was not to reduce the privileges of those who enjoyed privileges , but rather to make them pay . |
| 12 | The reality principle does not dethrone the pleasure principle , but rather safeguards it . |
| 13 | A later article will argue that this lowering of costs does not eliminate them altogether but rather transfers them . |
| 14 | My difficulty , however , is not just to show you that this is the case but rather to show you just what is the case ! |
| 15 | This informal perspective is not meant to replace the formal approach but rather to supplement it and to develop a fuller understanding of how organisations operate . |
| 16 | The local medical men did not object , but rather commended them for their cheapness . |
| 17 | The notion of ‘ protection ’ is not necessarily concerned with protecting participants from emotion , for unless there is some kind of emotional engagement nothing can be learned , but rather to protect them into emotion . |
| 18 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |