Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.

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1	The precise costing of the alternatives was difficult ( particularly since the nationalised rail and coal industries both refused to give guidance on their future prices which were a crucial element in the analysis ) , but by 1950 a working party chaired by Sayers concluded that , on balance , a higher-voltage superimposed network — Citrine insisted it be more elegantly referred to as the ‘ Supergrid ’ — would be worthwhile .
2	The device we call a page printer , by the way , is more usually referred to as a laser printer , much more exciting .
3	This liberation of heat represents a net release of free energy ( ) ( more strictly referred to as Gibbs free energy ) .
4	To overcome this shortcoming the Goblins have developed a unique machine known as the Doom Diver Catapult , more often referred to as the bat-winged loony lobber .
5	They gave the ruler of Spain , more often referred to as the Holy Roman Emperor , Charles V , possessions of a type previously unknown .
6	Poems are more plausibly referred to as works of art than novels ; the latter may have obviously aesthetic qualities , but have many other things in them as well .
7	The Majabr are too few ; the Zuwaya more likely referred to as ‘ a tribe between Ajdabiya and Kufra ’ .
8	On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register .
9	This type of audit is more commonly referred to as a ‘ structural survey report ’ or ‘ building inspection report ’ .
10	Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity .
11	Like so much that was sacred at Canterbury , it was all hearsay , and all the more violently adhered to on that account .

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