Sentence examples for but rather tended from inspiring English sources

Women did not display such a one-party skew, but rather tended to react to individual candidates.

Thus, at least over the age classes tested here, age did not negatively affect recovery times, but rather tended to increase performance.

Serum concentrations of creatine kinase and lactate, an increase of which is indicative of muscular dystrophy [17], were not increased in MCK-UCP1 mice but rather tended to decrease, as compared to wild-type littermates (figure 2A).

It did not seem to be sufficient to influence screening decisions but rather tended to confirm women's confidence in screening: "The 1 10 is like nothing".

However, in AKO mice, eNOS mRNA levels were not decreased but rather tended to slightly increase which excludes a transcriptional effect.

In contrast, injection of the same dose of anti-IFN-γ or anti-IL-12 mAb had no such effect on the course of the disease, but rather tended to exacerbate the arthritis.

The main thing that strikes me about Rother is the sense of it being exquisitely well-tended – not in that Cotswolds way, where you can just smell money from behind high hedges, but rather, in its public spaces.

But rather quite the opposite.

This is not cowardly but rather wise.

But rather than rush to the I.P.O.

Nice but rather unlikely.