Example sentences of "than as [noun] " 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 differences between schooled and unschooled Wolof children are more appropriately described as differences in conventional uses of explicitness than as differences in ‘ abstraction ’ . |
| 19 | Indeed one of this form of revisionism 's characteristic positions is to stress localised events happening as a result of localised pressures rather than as responses to larger national happenings or , especially , to articulated ideological movements . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Women see themselves as members of a kin group rather than as women . |
| 22 | And in many abolitionist minds this would ultimately lead to emancipation ; slaves would not only gradually become more able to live in freedom but better conditions would so enhance the population of labourers in the West Indies that it would be cheaper to employ workers on a waged basis than as slaves . |
| 23 | He pointed out that on 3 March 1942 , his original recruits were down to three officers and thirteen men , and if brought up to strength they could be far better employed as a raiding force than as instructors for the proposed Indian units . |
| 24 | Shakespeare gets a fair crack of the whip , but as text samples to be read , examined closely , and evaluated , rather than as monolith . |
| 25 | Policy is not consistent at different stages of education ; there is , for example , no clearly defined national policy for pre-school education ( widely recognised as being the most crucial stage for deaf children ) , and further and adult continuing education appear to be viewed in terms of direct provision of training and qualifications ( Department of Education and Science , 1991 ) rather than as routes into training and qualifications from the policy perspective . |
| 26 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Graduates of French elite engineering schools enter a company as a ‘ cadre ’ , with managerial status , rather than as technicians . ’ |
| 29 | Here is a case for ‘ outreach ’ since , if the library is not shown to be hospitable and friendly by librarians going out to the children , the children are unlikely to make contact with the library in any way other than as vandals . |
| 30 | Adult female suffrage gave legal recognition to an utterly new status for women who could enter the public world as individuals in their own right rather than as members of families . |