Example sentences of "be little more than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |
| 2 | Despite the presence of sound Trinomic cushioning and stability technology in the two main Disc shoes , it is hard to believe runners will shell out hefty sums for a central concept which appears to be little more than a glorified lacing system . |
| 3 | However , there is a danger that the smoke could be little more than a pungent sign of burning fingers . |
| 4 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 5 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 6 | In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders . |
| 7 | But the chapter , entitled ‘ A computer model of music recognition ’ — whose title whetted my appetite considerably — proved to be little more than a pious hope that studying the way a computer can be programmed to recognise music might help to understand the way the human brain does it . |
| 8 | A defensive tool need be little more than a pointed stick , or hands could pick and hurl rocks at the animal predators . |
| 9 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 10 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |