Sentence examples for mainly rather from inspiring English sources

Mainly, rather than any grand stunts, Blaine went back to his street-magic roots, doing turns for everyone from young men hanging around in a New York housing project to George W Bush himself.

But if I looked around the dining-room and it was mainly rather crusty, suited and booted people, I might say, "Would you mind taking dinner in the members' club upstairs?" Biography Born in Gibraltar, Fernando Peire worked briefly for the French government before choosing a career in restaurants.

Nevertheless, we dot not consider it a serious problem, since it is an expected consequence of our definition of the core, where genes are inherited "mainly" rather than "exclusively" through vertical transfer.

In Pakistan, Punjabi is mainly spoken rather than written, and it is a predominantly rural rather than urban language.

His crimes were mainly impulsive, rather than planned.

To the reader, each character conveys mainly semantic, rather than phonetic, information.

So it was mainly couples, rather than families like us, bringing two large teenage boys.

The mechanism of the reaction follows mainly parallel rather than the expected serial pathways.

Larger improvements in degradability of alfalfa hay occurred for enzyme products containing mainly fibrolytic, rather than proteolytic, activity.

But recently, Neal said, NASA moved to transfer the project to its Science Mission Directorate, which develops robotic missions for mainly research, rather than exploration, purposes.

Both Buckmaster and Craig Newmark, the site's founder, who these days has a "semi-retired" customer service role, see the business in mainly social, rather than financial terms.