Example sentences of "than [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 2 | The fact that central government was now beginning to regard Siberia as an integral part of Russia as a whole , rather than merely as a colonial appendage , was marked by the abolition in 1763 of the Siberian Department ( Sibirskii prikaz ) , the central state bureau which had , with a brief interruption under Peter the Great , been directly responsible for the governance and administration of the territory since 1637 . |
| 3 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 4 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 5 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 6 | The use of continuing care beds for elderly people is being more closely scrutinised than ever as a result of the changing NHS culture . |
| 7 | This was welcomed by the head of the Open Software Foundation in Japan , Dr Rob Morel , who ventured that possibly the Foundation was better positioned than before as a ‘ truly independent standards organisation ’ . |
| 8 | Thus , alcohol and other mood altering substances come to be seen in reality as mood-altering chemicals rather than solely as a perceived solution to problems . |
| 9 | To begin with , geometry has more value than simply as a means of acquiring a grasp of mathematical concepts . |
| 10 | The computations are thus interpretative processes , carried out by the visual system considered as a symbol-manipulating system rather than simply as a physical transducer ( though Marr attempts to ground his computational hypotheses in specific facts of visual psychophysiology ) . |
| 11 | It is also relevant here that the story of the weeping bitch was a widely known one , albeit in moralized versions , as an exemplum , rather than simply as a fabliau . |
| 12 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |