Example sentences of "but rather by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 2 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 3 | They also claim that poverty is not alleviated by providing ever-increasing welfare benefits , but rather by providing an appropriate economic and social environment , in which individuals have the incentive and the ability to raise themselves out of poverty , without encountering the poverty or unemployment traps . |
| 4 | They have exercised control over procedural rights not by rigid prior categorisation , but rather by admitting that natural justice or fairness applies and varying the content of those rules according to the facts of the case . |
| 5 | The inclusion of sculptural elements into a given context makes one more conscious of time , not by slowing it down to a state of meditation , but rather by particularising time through the experience of the work in context . |