Sentence examples for but rather happen from inspiring English sources

Because dreams, however, do not seem to be under voluntary control, but rather happen to us, they present an important challenge for the imagination view.

A possible explanation for this is that these traits do not causally affect fitness, but rather happen to be indirectly correlated with fitness via unmeasured non-heritable aspects of condition (e.g. undernourished offspring grow small and have low fitness as adults due to poor health).

None of the accidents cited in the violations involved sequences in which actors flew over audience members, but rather happened on stage.

The scientists speculate that the seals' bizarre behavior is not a case of mistaken identity, but rather happens when they can't find a real female seal with which to copulate.

What would I rather happen, I hear you ask.

One expert told the committee: "Travel still had to happen but, rather than happening directly, you had to go through a lot of complex routes".

Still they say it's cumming, or rather, happening.

Therefore, we expect the interaction between EN and GsbN not to interfere directly in the formation and segregation of the NBs, but rather to happen after the NBs are formed.

The question for the Obama administration is not what happens in the next four years of his term, but rather what happens in the next decade such that this is not a lost generation which resents American support of their governments when they cannot feed themselves.

It wasn't what happened in that interaction that struck me so intensely, but rather what happened a month later.

One user explained that the focus is not the disease itself, but rather what happens to the person who has the disease.