Example sentences of "[noun sg] than as a [noun sg] " 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 | The difference between these tax bases arises at the practical level in that some things are more easily measured as a stock than as a flow , for example the value of a painting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Eventually , more as a matter of course than as a reward , he was made an Adjudicator ; judge , jury and executioner , all rolled into one . |
| 5 | Overall , within the culture of antislavery economic boycott and free-produce activities worked much less significantly as a way of drawing in support than as a mark which some abolitionists chose to display of their antislavery identity . |
| 6 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 7 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 8 | It was an inglorious episode in English history , little remembered since , and regarded at the time less as a disgrace than as a deliverance . |
| 9 | Mariana herself is remembered more as a name on a family tree than as a person . |
| 10 | However , a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality . |
| 11 | But as the 1980s progressed , the Brick Lane site was becoming more valuable as a potential development area than as a brewery . |
| 12 | The latter falls off more rapidly , indicating that the turbulence changes in a way that makes it relatively less efficient as a heat transfer mechanism than as a momentum transfer mechanism . |
| 13 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 14 | It said that he was more suited in his role as surveyor of Crown property than as a designer of the Downing Street offices . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We have pointed out that her ambitions are relatively lowly and that she could earn far more and do more interesting work as a doctor than as a nurse , but her attitudes seem thoroughly entrenched . |
| 17 | Doug Green went on to tutor Jane Dubar : ‘ Actually I think I learnt as actually part of the INSET course more from being a tutor than as a teacher participant . ’ |
| 18 | The difference between these two senses lies simply in the fact that loosening the nexus allows the main clause to be interpreted more as a consequence of the actualization of the contingent event expressed by the infinitive than as a judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence . |
| 19 | By way of contrast , the British shop steward reacts to , and is more prepared to challenge , management decisions , regarding himself less as an agent of regulation than as a tactician in pursuit of tangible , if elusive improvements for the rank and file' ( ibid. , p. 185 ) . |