Sentence examples for rather function from inspiring English sources

These topic-based chats aren't just new chat rooms you set up by adding people you know from your contacts, but rather function as subsets to a main group chat.

I'd much rather function at a senior level in some science-related governmental department or agency, or would choose to compete for a job in the senior administration of some Canadian university.

As I posited above, the largest number of objections do not directly disagree with universal and mandatory preschool but rather function as "warnings" about the need for "high-quality" settings.

Walmart's involvement with Green Dot/GoBank is not to become a bank itself (it tried and failed to do this before), but rather function sort of like a branch for GoBank's customers, who can sign up for an account from Walmart stores, and deposit cash into their GoBank accounts.

According to Strawson, Russell infers from that to the conclusion that the semantic role of the apparent subject expression in such sentences (i.e. 'the F') cannot be to refer to or designate an object, and must, rather, function as a quantifier.

Previous studies have suggested that CD81 may not be required for the first attachment step, but rather function as a post-attachment entry co-factor [34], [35], [36].

cima-1 does not function in neurons but rather functions in the nearby epidermal cells to correctly position glia during postlarval growth.

The neoceptor is no longer activated by the native agonist, but rather functions as a scaffold for the docking of novel small molecules (neoligands).

But rather functions that often prevent us from experiencing the true self.

It makes no sense as a move for Littlefinger, but rather functions solely as a plot device.

The results further suggest that CAK itself cannot be sequentially recruited to damage-bound TFIIH, but rather functions as part of holo TFIIH in cellular NER.