Example sentences of "than as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For US television , such a postmodernism can be seen less as an aesthetic reaction to modernism than as part of the logic of a ‘ classical ’ concern with convention produced by an economic structure which needs product differentiation within a highly competitive market . |
| 2 | If proven that it constitutes Treasure Trove ( i.e. it was buried with the intention of later removal , rather than as part of a funerary burial ) , it is most likely to be retained by the Crown for the British Museum and the finder paid a sum equal to the market value of what is retained . |
| 3 | In public law , on the other hand , rules of standing are seen as rules about entitlement to complain of a wrong rather than as part of the definition of the wrong . |
| 4 | There was , however , overlap between the Stanley connection and the royal household , which confirms that the Stanleys were seen as part of the royal affinity rather than as part of Gloucester 's . |
| 5 | ‘ DBS was planned in terms of an economic competition with other European or American projects rather than as part of a communications policy : the problem was approached with a concern with the conduits not with the programmes , with the technologies involved , not with the services . |
| 6 | We consider that tribunals should properly be regarded as machinery provided by Parliament for adjudication rather than as part of the machinery for administration . |
| 7 | In such definitions , ‘ race ’ is still conceived as a false representation of reality rather than as part of the process of constructing an operative symbolic and social reality : literally , a common sense . |
| 8 | Equally , local training events for church musicians or workshops in the use of ‘ renewal music ’ are likely to receive their support from people who have an interest in them , rather than as part of a co-ordinated pattern of training for parish organists or directors of music . |
| 9 | The fact of class conflict is not denied , but is seen as only one of several sources of conflict within society ; and perhaps most crucially of all , the stratificationalist approach to class is unlike the Marxist approach in that it is used in a fairly ad hoc way as an analytic tool , rather than as part of an integrated sociohistorical theory . |
| 10 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
| 11 | When pupils return to school from the Delphi unit it is because the pupils themselves wish to ( in Roger 's words ‘ the problem solves itself ’ ) or because the staff are anxious to ‘ relieve the pressure ’ in the unit rather than as part of a scheduled policy of reintegration . |
| 12 | On the contrary , features and limbs are perceived in isolation without relation , as fragments rather than as part of a totality . |
| 13 | Some changes in practice , and in ways of delivering services , did take place , but usually as the result of initiatives by individual social workers or managers rather than as part of an overall department plan . |
| 14 | There was , however , overlap between the Stanley connection and the royal household , which confirms that the Stanleys were seen as part of the royal affinity rather than as part of Gloucester 's . |
| 15 | Well I I do think that varies and I think there is some excellent practice in many schools with teachers who are both very good at doing this sort of thing and put great value by it erm perhaps in their individual style , rather than as part of the curriculum erm but certainly there does seem to be a lack of awareness , and certainly where it comes to providing the funding for that , to bring into the school curriculum the sort of understanding about human development and erm aspects of emotional life which affect all of us throughout our life experience and affect our ability to perhaps erm enter into erm adult life with the sort of confidence and erm capacity for developing our potential that we would like all of our coming generation to be able to have . |
| 16 | Incongruities and idiosyncrasies were seen as strengths not as weaknesses , as indicators of a capacity for quiet change rather than as evidence of a tendency towards obfuscation . |
| 17 | Similarly , the description of the conventions regarding the form of language to be used are to be interpreted more as a parody and critique of the rival Academy than as evidence of what members of the Royal Society really did . |
| 18 | The emphasis is ours , bewildered by the way in which the Times adduces such facts as evidence of how ‘ people from a humble background ’ can progress in modern Britain , rather than as proof of the persistent importance of inheritance and class . |
| 19 | Shakespeare gets a fair crack of the whip , but as text samples to be read , examined closely , and evaluated , rather than as monolith . |
| 20 | Without the option of textiles , the only other really large-scale employer of women in the city was the clothing trade , where women were more likely to be classified as milliner/dressmaker or seamstress than as tailor . |
| 21 | Modernism had had no truck with narrative momentum ; and Eliot 's Post-war plays , which began with The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) , were always more compelling as moral analysis than as plot . |
| 22 | any sum paid by way of loan or repayment of loan ; and 2. any sum paid otherwise than as income , being a sum which is not paid for full consideration in money or money 's worth . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) In subsection ( 3 ) above " capital sum " means … ( a ) any sum paid or payable by way of loan or repayment of a loan , and ( b ) any other sum paid or payable otherwise than as income , being a sum which is not paid or payable for full consideration in money or money 's worth . |
| 24 | And yet the stance of Quebec nationalism is that of a people in headlong retreat before historical forces which threaten to overwhelm it ; a movement whose very advances are viewed in terms of potential weakness rather than as success . |
| 25 | He presented himself as organizer of reciprocities ( ‘ Am I to ask them for a dinar when you are sick ? ’ ) rather than as lineage banker : he noticeably did not raise issues of authority . |
| 26 | Lord Salisbury , who had a poor opinion of Clarke 's abilities ( as had Halsbury ) , wrote in much perplexity to the Lord Chancellor but saying that the Rolls should be offered to Clarke ‘ on party grounds ’ because he would do less harm as a judge than as Attorney-General . |
| 27 | The mark-up acts in this respect like an excise tax T x , and the fact that the monopoly profit accrues to entrepreneurs , rather than as revenue to the government , does not make any difference in view of the assumption about the demand side . |
| 28 | Aggressively inclined courtiers like Prince Menshikov ( who was much more militant as a diplomat and as Navy Minister than as Governor of Finland ) were beginning to press for pre-emptive action . |
| 29 | The gallery deploys different systems of organisation from those adopted by the Design Museum ; exhibits are proposed less as objects of desire than as object lessons . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) As against a person dealing otherwise than as consumer , that liability can be excluded or restricted by reference to such a term , but only in so far as the term satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |