Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its specialist knowledge means NCITO should be more widely recognised as the voice of sector-based training . ’ |
| 2 | The cost of becoming a candidate , all observers agreed , was that thereafter de Gaulle was more widely viewed as a partisan figure . |
| 3 | The twin-elliptic pendulum drawing machine described by Judith Mirzoeff in ‘ A wealth of mechanical patterns ’ ( Forum , 23 December , p 854 ) is , in fact , more widely known as the twin-elliptic harmonograph . |
| 4 | US President George Bush signed on Oct. 23 the Cuban Democracy Act , more widely known as the " Torricelli Law " after its sponsor , a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives , Robert J. Torricelli . |
| 5 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 6 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 7 | In 1893 a clerk named Alexander Howland Smith , more familiarly known as ‘ Antique ’ Smith because of his activities , received a sentence of twelve months ' imprisonment for his forgeries of a wide range of letters , including some from Carlyle , Thackeray and Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 8 | Similarly , his principle of " concomitant variation " proposed that whatever phenomenon varies whenever another phenomenon varies , is either the cause or the effect of that phenomenon — a principle more familiarly known as correlation . |
| 9 | X , at 70 , might be more highly charged as a sexual individual , than Y at 40 : the level at which one arrives depends on the level at which one starts ! |
| 10 | To be sure , parliament is not the only source of authority : elections have become more and more highly valued as its main source . |
| 11 | But in all other respects Tonga is more rightfully regarded as the closest place and has an International Date Line Hotel in the main town , Nuku'alofa , to prove it . |
| 12 | A close relative of the morgenstern was the aptly named ‘ holy water sprinkler ’ , more prosaically known as the military flail . |
| 13 | The kind of norms we are concerned with here are sometimes called community norms in order to distinguish them from the superordinate norms that I have mentioned , and I shall suggest below that a major difference between superordinate and community norms is that , whereas ‘ standard ’ norms are uniform , community norms are sometimes more aptly described as variable norms . |
| 14 | The concept of ‘ demand ’ is often not appropriate because it implies confrontation , the process is more aptly considered as one of cooperation and persuasion . |
| 15 | From the very start , one must realise that WordStar for Windows 1.5 is meant to be more than just a word-processor , but is perhaps more aptly billed as a document processor . |
| 16 | In Iran , the regime that replaced the Shah appears as militantly Islamic ( and , in theory , internationalist , for Shi-ism acknowledges no secular boundaries ) , and yet is more easily seen as the spearhead of Iranian nationalism . |
| 17 | The invention and development of the material means of cultural production is a remarkable chapter of human history , yet it is usually underplayed , by comparison with the invention and development of what are more easily seen as forms of material production , in food , tools , shelter and utilities . |
| 18 | Increasingly , change was more easily accommodated as political relationships changes . |
| 19 | The difference between these tax bases arises at the practical level in that some things are more easily measured as a stock than as a flow , for example the value of a painting . |
| 20 | General collections management processes ( i.e. the formal documentation of an object on acquisition — or ‘ accessioning ’ , monitoring object condition , recording of object movement , loan processing , storage environment , etc. ) are , however , becoming more generally standardised as a result of the work and influence of bodies such as the Museum Documentation Association . |
| 21 | This could suggest that , for such people , temporary working was more generally accepted as the norm . |
| 22 | Most important of all , its language , now more and more generally accepted as the ultimate badge of nationality , must be supported and a knowledge of it spread as widely as possible . |
| 23 | The Ostmarkenverein was more generally known as the Haketa , after the initials of its founders : Ferdinand von Hansemann , Herman Kennemann and Heinrich von Tiedeman . |
| 24 | Improved versions of what became more generally known as the patent still are widely used in the making of grain whisky , gin , and other potable and industrial spirits . |
| 25 | His sacred animals wee the ibis and the baboon and he could take the form of either animal , but is more generally shown as an ibis-headed man . |
| 26 | Gaviria denied that drug traffickers would be more leniently treated as a result of his decision not to extradite them to stand trial in the USA [ see p. 37957 ] . |
| 27 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 28 | Formidable members of the Black Shorts , more formally known as the ‘ Water Patrol ’ , policed the contest areas , warning off errant outsiders . |
| 29 | Navar Avokea or Navareno Bay erm it 's more , I think it 's more technically known as Avokea See if they 've got a reference to the . |
| 30 | This again is a very common problem and is more usually known as high blood pressure . |