Example sentences of "[noun sg] rather [conj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK national culture seems to be anti-systems and engineers often regard standards as restrictions on their creativity rather than as an efficient means of communication . |
| 2 | The point of headroom is that those above should act as a support rather than as a control . |
| 3 | Her argument is that Irigaray , as a psychoanalyst , sees psychoanalysis as a process of change rather than as a scientific theory : Irigaray 's work suggests ways in which psychoanalysis could be seen as a model for feminists seeking fundamental social change , in particular by proposing an alternative model for the relation between the rational and the non-rational which would be more satisfactory than the dominant paradigm . |
| 4 | He practised architecture as a pastime rather than as a full-time profession . |
| 5 | Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle . |
| 6 | A failure to solve a puzzle is seen as a failure of the scientist rather than as an inadequacy of the paradigm . |
| 7 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 8 | even fewer would deny that the CMHTs were precipitated into a virtual policy vacuum and were in effect used as one means of developing a broader framework rather than as a means of implementing an already established strategy . |
| 9 | The medical consequences of high alcohol consumption are well known but even doctors are reluctant to use the term " alcoholism " because it may be seen as a personal insult rather than as a justifiable clinical diagnosis . |
| 10 | The scheme is seen as work experience rather than as a ‘ parenting ’ class , but the spin-off could benefit the families of the future . |
| 11 | The only positive freedom is the freedom to use our creativity — and when machines are used as a substitute for labour rather than as an extension of our abilities , they deny us that freedom . |
| 12 | But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end . |
| 13 | In common with Descartes , he visualized the universe in terms of clockwork rather than as a living organism . |
| 14 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 15 | The SACHR felt it should be used as an incentive to good practice rather than as a weapon after an employer had been found guilty of a criminal offence ( discrimination ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the majority of farmers engage in landscape change as a result of the economic constraints imposed upon their farming practice rather than as a result of any personal whim . |
| 17 | There he became involved with the student newspaper and student television — for pleasure rather than as a grounding for his future career . |
| 18 | He has told civil servants at the DTI to address him henceforth as president rather than as the traditional Secretary of State . |
| 19 | example A thesis arguing that Robert Louis Stevenson should be understood as an early example of twentieth-century Modernism rather than as a late example of nineteenth-century Realism . |
| 20 | The existence of the necessity or obligation is not asserted but denied , questioned , conceded ( in concessive clauses ) , or represented as a mere conception rather than as a positive fact ( " subjunctive " ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 23 | The research will examine the ways in which Balinese society and culture are being reconstituted and tradition reworked as Balinese come increasingly to be defined by external agents as part of an ignorant Indonesian proletariat rather than as a viable and successful peasant society . |
| 24 | By contrast , however , a broadly conceived information skills course was presented as essential for topic work rather than as a facilitator of the separate work of subject departments . |
| 25 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 26 | A study of Mary as queen rather than as a woman of great misfortune and ultimate tragedy necessitates discussion of what was happening when the central figure of the monarch was off-stage , and especially before her debut , when the scene of her rule was set ; the problems which her absence created , and the way in which others struggled to resolve them are as relevant as the short period of her personal reign . |
| 27 | It is perhaps worth mentioning the importance of the sale agreement stating that the independent accountant will act as an expert rather than as an arbitrator . |
| 28 | There was a greater emphasis on masturbation as a symptom rather than as a cause . |
| 29 | Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil . |
| 30 | It is normally unlined and made as one short curtain rather than as a pair . |