Example sentences of "become less a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local communities became less a defence against the pressures of a hostile world , more a basis for active resistance : . |
| 2 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 3 | All too easily Soho could become less a way of life than an unbreakable habit . |
| 4 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |
| 5 | In this case it becomes less a matter of addressing contemporary political problems than of resisting institutional power , namely those critical readings which have recently claimed cultural hegemony , and of providing instead alternative accounts which insist on heterogeneity and resistance in historical texts . |