Example sentences of "as more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 2 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 3 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Holt , a Fleming director , said : ‘ Given the share register we regarded the rights as more of a placing . ’ |
| 5 | Her decision to reject an offer of a senior ministerial post in the Home Office will confirm the prejudices of those who regard her unpredictability and wilfulness as more than a match for her flair for promoting ideas . |
| 6 | However , as with all fostering schemes , it was seen as more than just a means of putting roofs over heads . |
| 7 | Peter White , Managing Director of British Airways Cargo , comments : ‘ Air cargo is increasingly proving its worth as the premier mode of distribution , especially as more companies practice ‘ Just-In-Time ’ inventory controls . |
| 8 | This new sense of topographical security left him free to explore theories about art , the novel in particular , and see his writing as more than ‘ mere journeywork ’ . |
| 9 | She certainly did not live in the shadow of John ; she was her own person and deserved to be described as more than a widow . |
| 10 | Men are somehow seen as more in need . |
| 11 | The A grade in computing which may result from the obsession is regarded as more than adequate compensation for the dismal Cs in all other subjects . |
| 12 | ‘ Lifetime is basically for people who wo n't use their cellphones , ’ admits Cellnet , which is promoting the new system as more of an emergency breakdown tool . |
| 13 | but they might exacerbate another problem , that of slalom-style riding by adventurous , youthful moped-riders who often view the street furniture as more of a challenge than a deterrent to speed . |
| 14 | Do you think of yourself as more of a rhythm guitarist than a lead player ? |
| 15 | Tomato deal in the riper side of UK House , of which the more familiar name of Pascal 's Bongo Massive will be the stormtrooper with most , and this release is really worth it for the AA facet , where ‘ Carried Away ’ is a slow shuffling number that could equally serve as more of a chilled refreshment . |
| 16 | We failed to offer proposals that could have been equally appealing but more constructive — such as more control over lifetime contributions to pension funds , greater stakes in enterprises through measures like employee share plans , more extensive rights as employees . |
| 17 | In contrast , British Aerospace is using FDC as more of a strategic tool . |
| 18 | The American Constitution reflects this battleground but emerges ( formally at least ) as more of an Enlightenment document than a Christian one . |
| 19 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 20 | As this becomes overloaded , i.e. as more information arrives in the message , an untrained interpreter tends to do one of the following : |
| 21 | On the other hand , girls ' lack of femininity or their ‘ masculinity ’ may be seen as more of a problem than that of underachievement . |
| 22 | In the aftermath of Kristallnacht the NL had to be treated by the authorities as more than an eccentric lunatic fringe organization . |
| 23 | As PW2 Advantage Plus PCs , available next week , the boxes will run SCO Unix , seen by Unisys as more of a desktop offering . |
| 24 | As a songwriter and musician himself , Terry Merrick is always prepared to act as more than just an engineer , where necessary putting his skill at playing and song arranging at the disposal of clients . |
| 25 | For rabbinical Judaism , militant activity was perceived as more than just an embarrassment . |
| 26 | The likely returns from their use must be estimated as more than their cost . |
| 27 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 28 | Although the chance to split votes is from the British standpoint a novelty which a commentator can not ignore , it should not be regarded as more than a minor feature of the WGMS . |
| 29 | The aesthetic theory of foregrounding or de-automatization enables us to see the references to TRANSPARENT and OPAQUE qualities of prose style ( see 1.3.1 ) as more than vague metaphors . |
| 30 | While this system may have been satisfactory when inflation was negligible , it has been seen as more of a disadvantage in recent years . |