Example sentences of "become less a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local communities became less a defence against the pressures of a hostile world , more a basis for active resistance : . |
| 2 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 3 | Between 1927 and 1934 the PCF became less a political group with a mass following , more an extremist ideological sect , an ideal target for repression and persecution by reactionary governments . |
| 4 | All too easily Soho could become less a way of life than an unbreakable habit . |
| 5 | By the 1820s this concern for public behaviour had become less an attempt to refine the sensibilities of a ‘ swinish multitude ’ than an increasingly desperate fear of social upheaval produced by major threats to local economic life . |
| 6 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 7 | In this case it becomes less a matter of addressing contemporary political problems than of resisting institutional power , namely those critical readings which have recently claimed cultural hegemony , and of providing instead alternative accounts which insist on heterogeneity and resistance in historical texts . |
| 8 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |