Example sentences of "[noun] than as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trend was started by The Independent , and taken up by The Guardian , more for commercial reasons than as a principled stand . |
| 2 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 3 | Finding herself jobless and with little to do , she drew upon her past experience of life in the Mediterranean and began compiling recipes ‘ less with any thought of future publication than as a personal antidote to the bleak conditions and acute food shortages of immediate post-war England ’ . |
| 4 | To take a rather obvious example , women 's liberation today is better understood in the light of its ambient social and economic circumstances than as the inevitable culmination of the nineteenth-century suffragette movement . |
| 5 | It was seen more as a patriotic form of national self-expression than as a pro-nazi organization and hence was not closed down in September 1939 when war was declared . |
| 6 | Indeed , for a long while the possession of a domestic clock or a watch tended to be restricted to the wealthy and was looked upon more as a sign of affluence than as a social necessity . |
| 7 | Well , of course there 's Rick there , but more as a discreet colouration than as a basic tone . |
| 8 | Hunter 's known subjects are few — two , to be precise , and both private commissions — and intended as practical examples of his research , related more to improving contemporary methods of preserving anatomical specimens for the medical student than as a deliberate contribution to the undertaking trade . |
| 9 | Britain could have much more clout with the combined power of our neighbours than as an individual country . |
| 10 | The domestically-oriented , nurturing talk of the miner 's wife , by contrast , is more likely to be taken as a product of her nature or her role than as a culturally-determined genre , and it is seen as something she shares with all other women . |
| 11 | But these were local efforts and as landlords , tenants and labourers were locked in a situation whose extent was only just becoming apparent , endemic poverty came to be seen less as the will of God than as a widespread indication of human failure . |
| 12 | Even so , The Survivors is less convincing as a portrayal of a dire predicament than as a formal arrangement set up by the figures as they stretch and strain over the raft . |
| 13 | We are now supposed to understand Enterprise Solutions less as a show than as a high-level executive meeting that might pass for a meeting of the Unix War College . |
| 14 | For one thing , it is technically easier , and cheaper , to represent a battle as a series of muddy brutalities in slow motion than as an exhilarating spectacle . |
| 15 | Bacon did not want to teach but liked the studio that was offered him , and so replaced Minton , less as a tutor than as an honorary visitor . |
| 16 | In reality not , but until you go through very violent experiences in your own life , you ca n't understand this man on the cross in any other way than as an abstract figure . |
| 17 | It concluded with the comment that ISC was ‘ more akin to a high-risk venture capital play moving between rounds of post-launch financing than as a stable company in conventional trading circumstances ’ . |