Example sentences of "it [is] rather that " in BNC.

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1 It is rather that people can get to the stage of remembering some experiences , quite often the good ones , that were shared with the person who has died .
2 It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system .
3 It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school .
4 It is not , stresses Pavitt , that the UK has abruptly ceased to invest in computer hardware and software in the current recession , it is rather that companies which invest prudently , for example , in a better accounts receivable system to improve their cash flow , are likely to outweigh the number of competitive advantage go-getters .
5 It is rather that there is a fundamental difference in the distribution of syntactic features between the two modes .
6 It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It .
7 In fact , language , through abstraction , is a much more efficient form or communication and possesses much more control over its interpretation , and it is rather that this difference in evocation is less likely to be evident in artefactual symbolism than in linguistic symbolism .
8 It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ .
9 My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) corrects me : it is rather that Brian Walden will visit the Secretary of State for lunch and take the cameras with him .
10 That is , our problem is not one of vicarious liability , of finding some reason why a shareholder should share some other person 's or group 's primary responsibility ; it is rather that we can find no one else who is primarily responsible and in whose responsibility he might share .
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