Example sentences of "was little more than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1370 the king was little more than a debauched , ageing and apathetic figurehead ; the Black Prince was already mortally ill , and government was largely conducted by John of Gaunt in alliance with courtiers and the king 's mistress , Alice Perrers . |
| 2 | A short distance further on , Julius turned off on to what was little more than a narrow track . |
| 3 | By the end of a week she was little more than a living skeleton : her hand lay all day long in Jennifer 's , and from time to time she would open her eyes , staring pathetically up , with a mute pleading in her expression that no words of comfort or whispered prayers could dispel . |
| 4 | The Irish Labour Party in Derry quickly collapsed , leaving McGonagle at the head of his own small Independent Labour group , which was little more than a personal election machine . |
| 5 | The stream was little more than a frozen marsh , pierced by tufts of blackened grass . |
| 6 | It was little more than a glass-sided army hut , but there was plenty of mahogany , ebony and zebra skin , and a tall cone of polished copper in the centre of the floor became a fireplace at the touch of a switch . |
| 7 | David Brand 's hip was weakening his strength as an old wound opened up after hours in the water , and now the canoe was little more than a tiny hulk . |
| 8 | Twenty-four hours before , Nicola Sharpe was little more than a bloody corpse , a name , a glossy image on a television screen . |
| 9 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 10 | However , it is only fair to add that , in this case , the surviving windmill structure was little more than a ruinous stone stump before conversion work began ( Plate 41 ) . |
| 11 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 12 | The organization lacked coherent leadership and purpose and was little more than a patriotic group with a foreign-sounding name . |
| 13 | His eyes were lack-lustre and bloodshot , the cheeks of his moon face had collapsed into wan saucers , and the generous tyre of flesh on which the face used to ride was little more than a slack tube . |
| 14 | It seems , then , that the average undertaker was little more than a speculative cabinet-maker and joiner who , either by direct contact with the metalworking trades , or via such funeral houses as Richard Green 's , was able to buy in at wholesale all that was required for a funeral . |
| 15 | But the action plan was merely a listing of the planned investments and control was little more than a bureaucratic formality , because of the notion that state enterprise management was autonomous . |
| 16 | At that time they were merely unwanted parasites and I was little more than a puzzled observer . |
| 17 | His nose was little more than a bloodied lump and the bruising around his left eye was so severe he could barely see out of it . |
| 18 | In reality , it was little more than a face-saving formula . |
| 19 | Her voice was little more than a whispery croak and she tried again . |
| 20 | He had made known his personal opposition to multiparty politics , claiming that the current campaign was little more than a mass protest against the stringencies of the economic recovery plan [ see p. 37523 ] . |
| 21 | It could also be construed as a naturalistic rival to supernatural religion , in that it presented the world as a closed system in which the deity was little more than a physical hypothesis to explain motion or change — a world in which there was no room for a higher human destiny . |