Example sentences of "is rather that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our conclusion , overall , is rather that a large book on Greece was not a serious possibility for long , if at all ; that the actual book written was , in an important sense , Wagnerian from the start ; but that , notwithstanding the extent of Wagner 's influence , there is no good reason to suppose that Nietzsche ever went against his own inclinations for Wagner 's sake , whether by adding material , changing it or suppressing it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The point is rather that the so-called independent check is a mere repetition of the procedure which it is supposed to be checking . |
| 5 | The first type of usage , that where the infinitive is non-realized ( He tried to get free ) , would appear to arise when the movement denoted by to is not carried to its end-point , i.e. when only the beginning of the movement signified by to is actualized : The second type , where the sense is rather that the infinitive 's event is actually realized ( He managed to get free ) , seems to arise where the speaker has actualized the whole of the movement signified by to , thus reaching the point where the realization of the infinitive event takes place . |