The phrase "acts less as" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something has a diminished or reduced role or function compared to another context.
Example: "In this scenario, the software acts less as a tool for productivity and more as a source of distraction."
Alternatives: "functions less as" or "serves less as".
Beginning with surrealism and edging into modernism, the body acts less as a subject unto itself, morphing into a site for the human interior to make itself visible.
As illustrated in Figure 2, the presence of funneling is disadvantageous because any increase in intra-uterine pressure may, in the presence of funneling, exert a dilating force while the short remaining cervical length acts less as an antibacterial barrier and offers less mechanical strength.
(Time senior editors tended to act less as editors than as promoted writers).
Receiving inspectors acted less as policemen than as quality consultants to the vendor.
Mr. Maazel, on the other hand, acted less as a direct conduit to Brahms than as a stage manager.
But to effectively orchestrate this fluid ecosystem, CIOs/CTOs must act less as inventive technologists and more as business-savvy strategists with strong innovation brokering skills.
The European Commission is expected to give its decision Sept. 3, but because of the composition of the companies' fleets, there has already been a natural split in the market that allows the two carriers to act less as competitors.
Some feel that the special prosecutor has acted less as a prosecutor, and more as a defence lawyer, cherrypicking the evidence that exonerates Bryant, and ignoring that which indicts him, one online commenter saying "it is disturbing that a special prosecutor can dismiss charges so easily based upon the statements of the accused", and calling him "Advocate for the Defence".
Fontane's situation may therefore be a comfort to writers wondering where their work fits in with the morass of Dan-Brown-alikes and celebrity memoirs today: the mass market can act less as a straightjacket and more as a spur to greatness.
A German newspaper said he had "acted less as an apostle of Christian charity than as a jingoistic hate monger". German sources insist the captain and crew of the English vessel were blacklisted and found it hard to get work for the rest of their lives.
French forces were to act less as regional gendarmes propping up vulnerable leaders, and do more for cross-border security and to combat terrorism.The threat has grown since the fall of Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, and the focus has also shifted geographically: towards a desert "motorway" that reaches from the porous borders of southern Libya through the Sahel to the Atlantic.
