Example sentences of "than as a [noun sg] [prep] " 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 I thought he could do more good with Miss Oliver 's money in England , than as a missionary under the baking sun in the East .
3 Stop time minus Start time but then this needs to be expressed in hours — rather than as a fraction of a day .
4 Unfortunately these bacterial products have usually been considered as alternatives to a synthetic pesticide , rather than as a component of IPM .
5 In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins .
6 However , a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality .
7 There has been a balance Chair , and , and hence the fact that we 've knocked it off as an efficiency saving rather than as a reduction in service .
8 Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas .
9 Jane realised then that she had never really believed in covered wagons , other than as a vehicle for John Wayne .
10 The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests .
11 He sees the slump as an opportunity for natural selection — and corporate evolution — rather than as a problem with the economy .
12 The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments .
13 We tend nowadays to see these generations not merely in terms of the underlying electronic technology , but also in terms of the organization of the hardware and software involved in a computer system ; thus the transition to the fourth generation can be seen more as a change in the way that computer systems are organized ( with the use of such techniques as virtual storage and distributed intelligence ) , than as a change in the underlying technology .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 In fact , the ‘ aesthetic ’ is discussed on the course , but as a problematic rather than as a response to literature .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 On the cross Christ himself came to be portrayed as a man in agony rather than as a God in majesty .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Both may be used as a shopping method ( selected for its convenience ) rather than as a type of credit .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 ) .
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