Example sentences of "[coord] more [adv] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1841 and 1861 the number of male shoemakers in the county aged twenty or more almost doubled as both the urban and the rural population searched for employment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Indeed , it might be ventured that whenever there is the possibility we prefer to use this basis of organisation , probably because it is intrinsically more accessible and more firmly established as part of our mental " set " . |
| 4 | To be sure , parliament is not the only source of authority : elections have become more and more highly valued as its main source . |
| 5 | Williams , an Old Stopfordian then at Manchester University and the inventor of the " Manchester Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculating Machine " ( widely and more succinctly known as the " Electronic Brain " ) — the first computer in the world with its own memory . |
| 6 | These tugs built by John Lewis & Sons Ltd. in Aberdeen and more commonly known as water tractors were the first of their kind in Scotland . |