Example sentences of "than as a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 2 | Stop time minus Start time but then this needs to be expressed in hours — rather than as a fraction of a day . |
| 3 | Unfortunately these bacterial products have usually been considered as alternatives to a synthetic pesticide , rather than as a component of IPM . |
| 4 | However , a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality . |
| 5 | The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments . |
| 6 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 7 | The Squirrel was one of the first light turbine helicopters designed primarily for civil operation rather than as a modification of a design intended for military use . |
| 8 | Deductive markers provide a linguistic means of signalling the deductive/empirical distinction : they signal that what follows should be interpreted as a conclusion rather than as a description of an event/state . |
| 9 | Political power is therefore seen as a result of greater capacity to manipulate residues or to impose coercion , as a quality inherent in the individual rather than as a characteristic of societal relationships . |
| 10 | Elections to the Länder governments are treated much like by-elections in Britain , as a way of expressing a mid-term opinion of the Federal Government , rather than as a way of choosing a significantly different local or regional government . |
| 11 | Although iridology is used primarily as a means of detecting problems before other symptoms appear rather than as a way of treating those problems , many iridologists are also herbalists or homoeopaths and can go on to work towards effecting a cure . |
| 12 | But putting up more candidates increases the danger that each of them will contend as an individual rather than as a member of a team : it makes the campaign harder to co-ordinate . |
| 13 | Both may be used as a shopping method ( selected for its convenience ) rather than as a type of credit . |
| 14 | The whole thrust of the article seems designed to justify BR 's corporate performance against a shortfall of government funding , and while you accept and refer to the shocking conditions experienced by passengers , you do so as if this was a problem imposed on BR rather than as a function of its own management performance at operating level . |
| 15 | It is so much easier to understand detailed and complicated financial figures when they are explained graphically rather than as a mass of figures on a piece of paper . |
| 16 | By contrast , however , a broadly conceived information skills course was presented as essential for topic work rather than as a facilitator of the separate work of subject departments . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But if talk of a right were insisted upon it would be seen as no more than as a flourish of personification to emphasise that the trustee had legal obligations towards the grave . |
| 19 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 20 | The first line of defence of established literary study against culturalist pressures is to emphasize ‘ literature as literature ’ rather than as a version of philosophy , history , sociology , and so forth . |
| 21 | A study of Mary as queen rather than as a woman of great misfortune and ultimate tragedy necessitates discussion of what was happening when the central figure of the monarch was off-stage , and especially before her debut , when the scene of her rule was set ; the problems which her absence created , and the way in which others struggled to resolve them are as relevant as the short period of her personal reign . |
| 22 | The whole argument is relevant for the theme of this book because , in the tradition of Durkheim , as against the materialist tradition of Marx , I myself view the varieties of human society as alternative systems of moral order rather than as a sequence of specialized adaptations to different economic circumstances . |
| 23 | Altogether , the ironies of the passage read far more plausibly as a challenge to the categories in which the Reeve , the Host and the Miller superficially belong than as a re-assertion of the impropriety of such characters acting out of their places . |
| 24 | While the above advantages are undeniable , and would all have a positive bearing on the regulation of insider dealing , self-regulation is better seen as a complement to , rather than as a replacement of , formal regulatory measures . |
| 25 | In order to appreciate the factors which motivate a writer or speaker to make this kind of selection , one needs to think of the clause as a message rather than as a string of grammatical and lexical elements . |
| 26 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher interprets the Madrid formula more as a pretext for not joining the EMS than as a set of three conditions for joining it . |
| 28 | The moral commands of the Bible are presented more as main guiding principles and ideals than as a set of meticulously detailed regulations for daily living . |
| 29 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 30 | Our leader , according to this approach , will allow others to develop , to act as an enabler rather than as a director of subordinates . |