Example sentences of "but more [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1924 , Leese joined the British Fascists , but more as an anti-socialist and anti-semite , and his Stamford group soon broke away from the mainstream Fascist movement . |
| 2 | Such efforts , like the one supported by Kurt Schmoke , the mayor of Baltimore , build on programmes from parts of Europe and Australia which treat drug-taking not as a criminal matter , but more as an issue of personal choice and public health . |
| 3 | It would be unrealistic therefore to see implementation as an event but more as an ongoing process of experimentation and development . |
| 4 | As before , Johnson rails against injustice and oppression , but more as an everlasting fact of human existence than as something that might be fought and corrected . |
| 5 | He offered it to Coffin , not as a prize , but more as an afterthought . |
| 6 | He was not exactly ill-mannered , Sara decided , but more like an inquisitive child . |