Example sentences of "rather as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , liberals of various party allegiances viewed the same body rather as a Pioneer Corps to shore up and renovate Britain 's derelict constitutional edifice . |
| 2 | In fact , cognitive psychologists are nowadays more sympathetic to the Piagetian view that memory is the result of cognitive activity , not a passive receptacle in the mind which grows , rather as the body grows . |
| 3 | THE vague and ill-considered commitment to dilute the Government 's industrial relations reforms which was endorsed so easily yesterday by the Labour Party conference will return to haunt the party 's leaders , rather as the question of nuclear weapons did until it was , apparently , laid to rest earlier this week . |
| 4 | He talked about taxes all the time , rather as the last unexpected Tory winner , Mr Heath in 1970 , talked all the time about prices . |
| 5 | The arrival of each vendor is greeted by the crowd rather as the appearance of a man with a sackful of rice would be greeted in a Kurdish refugee camp in midwinter . |
| 6 | The comparison is relevant as people perceive noise not so much in terms of its absolute level but rather as the relationship of the noise to what exists normally . |
| 7 | Finally , the American Peke-faced cat is a long-haired breed that has been bred for a flatter and flatter face , rather as the Pekinese has been exaggerated among the dog breeds . |
| 8 | Rather as the soft toy or ragged piece of blanket provide transitional objects in early childhood , these figures provide transitional attachments , and reflections of an ideal self , which help the individual towards autonomy . |
| 9 | Drama is easier to convey than analysis , rather as the political decisions of kings and queens make for more comprehensible history in the schoolroom than do gradual shifts in economic and social patterns . |
| 10 | The other is by being representative of the majority of actual bureaucrats , rather as the average reader of a newspaper like , say , The Times is simply a profile assembled out of the actual features of actual readers . |
| 11 | He was then anxious to win the support of the Yorkist establishment and , both as protector and during his early weeks as king , represented himself rather as the only hope for the continuance of the good government of Edward IV . |
| 12 | We need to see teaching , therefore , not as the transmission of pre-existing knowledge to passive recipients , but rather as the provision of opportunities for children to continue to exercise their in-built drive actively to make sense of their experience and , thereby , to gain understanding of , and control over , the world in which they live . |
| 13 | He is persistently encouraged to see himself rather as the person responsible for seeing that learning happens . |
| 14 | Nizan 's refusal to empathise fully with his fictional characters was consequently envisaged not as part of a global strategy to adapt the novel to the demands of contemporary social experience , but rather as the ideological inability of a communist novelist to engage in a complicity judged by Sartre to be a fundamental aspect of the novelist 's art . |
| 15 | Naturally the comparisons were closest with other crustaceans , and Huxley brought in shrimps , lobsters and crabs in the context of his course ; the crayfish was a typical crustacean rather as the man on the Clapham omnibus was supposed to be a typical Englishman . |
| 16 | Jaggeresque in appearance he began to sail through the submarine defences of the class system , rather as the English in India had transcended the caste structure . |
| 17 | It is a part of the ego-organization , and developed out of it in some ways rather as the ego itself differentiated from the id . |
| 18 | He was then anxious to win the support of the Yorkist establishment and , both as protector and during his early weeks as king , represented himself rather as the only hope for the continuance of the good government of Edward IV . |