Sentence examples for rather but not from inspiring English sources

Second, it analyzes interventions carried out at the community level rather but not necessarily implemented by or through community-based organizations (World Bank, 2010b).

I suppose I thought that rather obvious, but not everyone agrees.

The elder President Bush reveals that Elizabeth II is "rather formal" but not "standoffish".

In most respects, it's just a traditional 1940's dwelling, rather large but not fancy.

"The story emanates from Stalin's office," he writes, rather puzzlingly, "but not from his point of view".

β-TCP resorbs rather quickly but not necessarily at the same rate as new bone formation [25 27].

The mode of action of these newly-developed EstC-NH2 functionalized surfaces appears to be rather fungicidal but not antiadhesive.

In this experiment, it is not possible to determine whether cells that do not divide are dead or rather alive but not reproducing.

There was a woman we rather brutally called, but not to her face, "The Wacko".

Jack and Jaseleigh came across rather more sympathetically, but not enough.

He has Bellow and Singer — both in rather elegant profiles — but not Roth or Capote.