Example sentences of "than [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , support should come not only from one 's immediate boss , who should be seen as a resource , rather than as a boss . |
| 2 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 3 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 4 | I thought he could do more good with Miss Oliver 's money in England , than as a missionary under the baking sun in the East . |
| 5 | Stop time minus Start time but then this needs to be expressed in hours — rather than as a fraction of a day . |
| 6 | As Joan de Warenne , she had no place at court other than as a servant — should privileges such as befitted her true station be accorded her , unwelcome suspicion would be aroused . |
| 7 | Unfortunately these bacterial products have usually been considered as alternatives to a synthetic pesticide , rather than as a component of IPM . |
| 8 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 9 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |
| 10 | However , a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality . |
| 11 | There has been a balance Chair , and , and hence the fact that we 've knocked it off as an efficiency saving rather than as a reduction in service . |
| 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 | He suggests that they were worn for display only , rather than as a dress-fastening , being heavily abraded from contact with coarse outer clothing . |
| 14 | Jane realised then that she had never really believed in covered wagons , other than as a vehicle for John Wayne . |
| 15 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 16 | Translated into market terms , this means that the labour power capable of performing the process may be purchased more cheaply as dissociated elements than as a capacity integrated in a single worker ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 81–82 ) . |
| 17 | Roth 's influence was less as a teacher , there having been during his lifetime much less scope than later for Jewish studies in Britain , than as a writer and lecturer . |
| 18 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 19 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |
| 20 | He sees the slump as an opportunity for natural selection — and corporate evolution — rather than as a problem with the economy . |
| 21 | We can see him or her as a person rather than as a stereotype . |
| 22 | I employ comparison in order to get to grips with relations rather than as a realist method of generating ‘ … conceptually informed causal analysis ’ ( Dickens et al . , |
| 23 | Overall , within the culture of antislavery economic boycott and free-produce activities worked much less significantly as a way of drawing in support than as a mark which some abolitionists chose to display of their antislavery identity . |
| 24 | The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments . |
| 25 | We tend nowadays to see these generations not merely in terms of the underlying electronic technology , but also in terms of the organization of the hardware and software involved in a computer system ; thus the transition to the fourth generation can be seen more as a change in the way that computer systems are organized ( with the use of such techniques as virtual storage and distributed intelligence ) , than as a change in the underlying technology . |
| 26 | The difference between these two senses lies simply in the fact that loosening the nexus allows the main clause to be interpreted more as a consequence of the actualization of the contingent event expressed by the infinitive than as a judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | At its surface , water could exist as a liquid rather than as a gas , and so oceans and seas came into existence . |
| 29 | In fact , the ‘ aesthetic ’ is discussed on the course , but as a problematic rather than as a response to literature . |
| 30 | Mariana herself is remembered more as a name on a family tree than as a person . |