Sentence examples for but rather prefers from inspiring English sources

As the producer tries to impress Madonna, he comes to know that she does not like material things, but rather prefers simple romance.

In the same vein, distance to the seed source is an indication of travel time and transportation cost and as these increase, farmers may not find it worthwhile to sell all their paddy rice, but rather prefer to keep some as seed for next season planting.

Maslov and Sneppen argue that hub proteins tend not to interact with other hub proteins in yeast, but rather prefer to interact with sparsely connected proteins [ 26].

We did not try assigning thresholds of our own definition to these quantitative traits at any stage, but rather preferred to use clustering by statistical methods such as EM so as to minimize bias in assigning presence/absence scores.

Most users of CAM treatment are often resistant towards abandoning CAM in favour of conventional treatments, but rather preferring a range of available options that complement conventional medicine [ 9].

It is obvious that the introduction of strict diagnostic criteria improved the reliability of diagnosis, however it is also obvious that most clinicians do not follow these strict criteria in everyday clinical practice [ 21], but rather prefer an idiosyncratic approach to diagnosis even when using DSM or ICD labeling.

But Romney's team would really rather prefer Paul not speak to the convention in prime time.

Specifically, the results suggest that people were more willing to accept fencing if the distance to the closest official crossing site was relatively short, but in the case of a relatively long distance they rather preferred an overpass or underpass.

"I rather prefer that one," she murmured.

Colonel Campbell rather preferred an olive.

It's just that I find that I rather prefer other people's; like grandchildren, you can hand them back when they get tiresome.