Example sentences of "than a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 2 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 3 | They were usually minor KGB agents , and the two-thousand-dollar charge was nothing more than a way of increasing the Soviet Union 's foreign exchange . |
| 4 | In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing . |
| 5 | So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds . |
| 6 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 7 | As an identity , the quantity theory is no more than a way of calculating the velocity of circulation . |