Example sentences of "than as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wölflinn used such terms to distinguish epochs ; they are only partly useful as interpretation , since Wölflinn tended to be more interested in art as an independent phenomenon than as having meaning intended by the artist . |
| 2 | After his first TV series I said to him : Are n't you happier as a media critic , putting shitty artists in their places , than as a failed shitty artist being put in his place ? |
| 3 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 4 | But as the 1980s progressed , the Brick Lane site was becoming more valuable as a potential development area than as a brewery . |
| 5 | The first line of defence of established literary study against culturalist pressures is to emphasize ‘ literature as literature ’ rather than as a version of philosophy , history , sociology , and so forth . |
| 6 | The latter presentation is not so common , because of the generally unfavourable associations of ‘ aesthetic ’ in our culture , though it is implied whenever students are asked to approach a poem as a work of art , rather than as an historical document or a philosophical argument . |
| 7 | Raymond Williams came to think that a splitting of the discipline was increasingly likely , since cultural materialism and radical semiotics were not compatible with the dominant paradigm of literary study : ‘ For these necessarily include the paradigm itself as a matter for analysis , rather than as a governing definition of the object of knowledge . ’ |
| 8 | Quite independent of Pound , most admiring commentators have read the poem more nearly as Pound read it than as Eliot intended . |
| 9 | For one thing , it is technically easier , and cheaper , to represent a battle as a series of muddy brutalities in slow motion than as an exhilarating spectacle . |
| 10 | Van Der Meulen has been characterised as a good explorer rather than as a great one . |
| 11 | It concluded with the comment that ISC was ‘ more akin to a high-risk venture capital play moving between rounds of post-launch financing than as a stable company in conventional trading circumstances ’ . |
| 12 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
| 13 | So , for Eliot , Baudelaire ‘ was at least able to understand that the sexual act as evil is more dignified , less boring , than as the natural , ‘ life-giving ’ , cheery automatism of the modern world' . |
| 14 | Even friends acknowledge that she approaches conversations as an intellectual exchange rather than as an opportunity to empathize ; her invitations to colleagues to define their terms and to explain ‘ precisely ’ what they mean often disconcert the unprepared . |
| 15 | I do n't want to sound dog-in-the-manger about it , but we have performed reasonably well in quite a difficult retail climate , but a view was put around that the individual companies in the Storehouse group were worth more separately than as a group . |
| 16 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 17 | It is therefore rather more as a tool for the analysis of the nature and functioning of states than as a theory of the emergence of the State that Marx 's and Engels 's views are still acceptable to present-day anthropologists . |
| 18 | First , all of these works follow the perspective outlined in The German Ideology and look at human societies as systems organizing production and reproduction rather than as institutional structures . |
| 19 | Mariana herself is remembered more as a name on a family tree than as a person . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher interprets the Madrid formula more as a pretext for not joining the EMS than as a set of three conditions for joining it . |
| 21 | That would undo decades of effort to have chemical dependency recognised as a treatable disorder rather than as a moral lapse deserving of punishment . |
| 22 | Reflecting in 1968 on the difference between him and Communists of the older generation , he said : ‘ They seem to approach reality by way of certain abstract categories , which seem to them to have a lot of meaning and to reflect concrete experience … ; [ whereas ] members of my generation tend to use as a starting point reality as it exists at the moment , they form general concepts on the basis of this reality and they disregard categories which seem to have lost their relevance and to function more as incantations than as concepts . ’ |
| 23 | They hoped that the dynamic forces released by socialism would generate new wealth , enabling Britain to stride the world once more in a continuing and -equal partnership with the United States , rather than as the American satellite which she had become in the latter phases of the Second World War . |
| 24 | Why should a mixed bag of businesses perform better under the direction of a headquarters team , rather than as individual firms responding to external commercial pressures ? |
| 25 | And although Mr Kohl promises that Germany will eventually amend its constitution and shoulder its proper military responsibilities in the world , he would prefer to sell that to his own people as a pro-European gesture than as a pro-American one . |
| 26 | Jane realised then that she had never really believed in covered wagons , other than as a vehicle for John Wayne . |
| 27 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 28 | This phrase must be regarded as the starting-point for analysis rather than as an explanation . |
| 29 | Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women . |
| 30 | In 1956 , the French critic Bernard Gavoty published a monograph on Karajan that was much preoccupied with Karajan 's temperament and musicianship at a time when he was being increasingly regarded more as an ambitious virtuoso superstar than as a totally dedicated musician . |