Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be [adv] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to deny that the ending of a marriage through death , and through divorce , are in many ways very different experiences , nor that they may be handled differently in families , but the point here is that the idea that kin groups used to be much more stable over time than they are today has to be modified by historical evidence . |
| 2 | It used to be much more important . |
| 3 | Staxigoe used to be far more important than Wick ; a busy fishing port , where Scandinavian timber was imported and the small harbour bustled with boats long before Wick gained pre-eminence as the most notable herring fishing station in Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 5 | I 'm going to start off by suggesting why people like yourselves ought to be much more pro-active , take a much more lead in terms of doing things with the media . |
| 6 | Comparing the pulsar orbit with the orbit of Mercury ; a , , and τ are now all smaller , and so the precession ought to be much more rapid for PSR 1913+ 16 . |
| 7 | Why do they go on the way they do , making a huge fuss about little things and then ignoring what ought to be much more important ? |