Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the specialties business , which ICI unanimously wants to retain , sees its connection with ICI more as a hindrance than a help . |
| 2 | When such a person breaches his fiduciary relationship , he may be treated more properly as a tipper than a tippee . |
| 3 | They were very relaxed and Skip conveys the feeling that they were treating it more as a cruise than a race . |
| 4 | Despite a couple of fine LPs , among them ‘ The Most Of ’ , Edwards clicked more as a writer than a singer , and in 1966 he gave two songs to the Spencer Davis Group , ‘ Keep On Running ’ and ‘ Somebody Help Me ’ , both of which hit Number One . |
| 5 | She liked to project herself more as a friend than a doctor . |
| 6 | ‘ But he has no regard for human life and will be better suited as a terrorist than a soldier . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |
| 8 | Now she began to treat the shop more as a business than a hobby , and expanded its services by offering home collection to rich women who would not be seen dead in a secondhand shop . |
| 9 | Payment of the community charge is compulsory , which is why it is more accurately characterised as a tax than a charge . |
| 10 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 11 | That kiss , which had left her feeling totally shattered , had been clearly meant more as a punishment than a pleasure . |
| 12 | In 1984 and 1985 , the Rokkaku challenge , as it was to become known , was a feature of the AKA conventions ; though it was regarded more as a participant than a spectator event . |
| 13 | Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces . |
| 14 | We then considered its claim to be scientific , humanistic and atheistic ; concluding that it was more accurate to describe it as an ideology than a science , that its humanitarianism was very real yet flawed , and that its atheism was fundamental to an understanding of the ideology . |
| 15 | At £110 Alfonzo is beyond most piggy-banks , so look on him more as an investment than a bedfellow . |