Example sentences of "[coord] rather [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't pay to let a woman know you cared , or rather that your body did . |
| 2 | She wanted to , she really did , but she needed to be made to feel she could , or rather that she could n't not , that it was out of her hands , that she could n't help herself . |
| 3 | The usual jibe was that Crowninshield was a politician without a cause , or rather that he would support any cause so long as it was fashionable , but his critics also attacked Crowninshield for being wealthy , claiming that his eminence was solely due to the vast amounts of money that he spent on his campaigns . |
| 4 | In the work of Gagnon and Simon , it seems to be suggested that nothing is intrinsically sexual , or rather that anything can be sexualised ( though what creates the notion of ‘ sexuality ’ itself is never answered ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 6 | But rather that the time and thought put into it had somehow polluted me . |
| 7 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 8 | We are not claiming that personal leadership is all important but rather that Mrs Thatcher 's personality and policies enabled her to take advantage of the constellation of events and ideas . |
| 9 | Marx 's whole work was an attempt to show that this image was false ; that there was nothing inevitable about all this , but rather that this apparent powerlessness of the worker to determine the wage was the product of the distribution of property and especially of the distribution of the ownership of such things as land , machines , tools , etc . |
| 10 | Apart from the specific history of the status of women that Engels was proposing , he was again stressing that the status of women is not an independent fact , perhaps explained by transcendental ideas concerning the nature of men and women , but rather that men 's and women 's ideas about women were all aspects of a much wider system which included the whole political economy and its internal logic . |
| 11 | Kendall never claimed , of course , that this method could ever be accurate enough to pinpoint where the archaeologist should sink his spade , but rather that it could help in choosing between a number of possible locations to which the search had been restricted on other grounds . |
| 12 | Eryngium alpinum I have saved almost to the last , not because it is common , which it is , but rather that to my mind it is the loveliest representative of the Umbelliferae family ( which includes , strange though it may seem , the carrot ) . |
| 13 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 14 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 15 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |
| 16 | The arguments against housing mentally handicapped people in such institutions are not founded , in the main , on the premise that they are badly run or insensitive to the needs of their ‘ patients ’ , but rather that no mentally handicapped person should be institutionalised and segregated from the community as a whole unless they require hospital and medical care . |
| 17 | These concerns must be recognised as specific , which does n't mean that semiotics or Lacanian film theory has no relevance outside the established framework of Anglo-American and European cinema , but rather that their legitimacy should not automatically be assumed or their dominance remain uncontested in the light of developments within feminism at large . |
| 18 | Although some of the Roman cattle of the time were indeed large , with long lyre-shaped horns , the archaeological evidence does not in fact suggest that larger stock were imported into Roman Britain , but rather that the increase in size was probably the result of improved management and breeding of the existing British cattle . |
| 19 | Not that I wanted to play chess nor even to frighten the good citizens of Budapest with a glimpse of my bare cadaver — my bathing trunks now also fell off me — but rather that the idea of a character — perhaps fleeing from something or someone — standing in those steaming baths moving queens and pawns , fitted perfectly into the outline I had . |
| 20 | This did not mean a slavish copying of mediaeval motifs , but rather that the style would provide a basis from which a future architecture would develop , using modern materials and techniques . |
| 21 | It is not because , as they 'll so often claim , they ca n't do it , but rather that they wo n't do it . |
| 22 | It is not that the questioners are unintelligent , but rather that they are uninformed — and , after all , as science writers information is our business . |
| 23 | The use of the word ‘ lazy ’ here does not imply that those animals are indolent or inefficient but rather that their specialisation is so finely tuned and successful that they are able to spend a great deal of their daily lives sitting , gazing and sleeping . |
| 24 | The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it . |
| 25 | Sometimes it is not so much specific answers to specific doubts that bring relief but rather that doubts can be discussed at all . |
| 26 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 27 | This does not mean that victims are consciously playing this game , but rather that they have learnt to live this way , not realising there is any better alternative . |
| 28 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 29 | ‘ After each Test there was never any great sense of elation but rather that a step towards the ultimate goal was taken . |
| 30 | As explained above , the proposal of the FRED is not that such expenses be treated as an asset , but rather that they be taken into account in measuring a liability . |