Example sentences of "[noun sg] than as [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't have to change , he simply had to present himself as more of a lovable reprobate than as a spirit of corruption ; PR was everything , as long as it did n't cross the thin line over into patronisation . |
| 2 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |
| 3 | However , a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality . |
| 4 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 5 | It said that he was more suited in his role as surveyor of Crown property than as a designer of the Downing Street offices . |
| 6 | She suspected that the Bishop and the Archdeacon had invited her to the meeting more to enlist her help as a sleuth than as a source of information of a kind which might be to them , in any case , unwelcome . |
| 7 | For that matter the whole process of reaching an annual bookfund figure is usually somewhat arbitrary , and the foregoing comments may be taken more as background than as an analysis of the way chief librarians go about reaching a total . |