The phrase "agents rather than a" is not correct and seems incomplete in written English.
It could be used in a context where you are comparing agents to something singular, but it requires additional information to be clear.
Example: "We should focus on developing agents rather than a single solution that may not address all issues."
Alternatives: "agents instead of a" or "agents as opposed to a".
The observation of HER2 amplification exclusively in disseminated cells, suggests a selection of clones within the primary tumour that harboured initial HER2 amplification and that were underrepresented in the primary tumour, for example, by cytotoxic agents, rather than an acquisition of this amplification de novo within the metastatic cells.
From what one hears about the symptoms it's possible a harassing agent rather than a nerve agent was used".
The latest episode, however, is the first in which the United States government has said that an American agent, rather than a Honduran police officer, has killed a suspect.
Unfortunately for the show, Sitwell is a dependable and dutiful agent rather than a zingy personality who can add some excitement and pop to the rather pretty but so far bland SHIELD team.
The models used by Samuelson differ from the ones presented in Section 2. In his model, each state is assigned a set of actions for each agent (rather than a single action).
The data captured by smart fabrics may presage a future where players' heart rates or biometric rhythms are reported across key points, leading to a place where costume presents itself as a temporal-spatial layered and multi-dimensional event concerned with both aesthetics and the human condition as a performative agent rather than a decorative layer.
Based on this membrane property, similar to gramicidin and amphotericin, we have defined Aβ as a perforating toxic agent, rather than a classical pore-forming agent.
Despite that the culture results were considered to be a contaminating agent rather than a pathogen, antibiotic therapy was prescribed according to the antibiogram.
The implementation of such measures could create an environment in which the older care receiver is 'an agent rather than a patient' (Stenner, McFarquhar and Bowling 2011: 471).
