Example sentences of "little more than an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that Friday morning three weeks ago , I was little more than an irritant to dozens of drivers caught in a traffic jam as police cars and ambulances blocked their way to work or school . |
| 2 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
| 3 | After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control . |
| 4 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 5 | Until last month this was little more than an expression of good intentions . |
| 6 | This suggests , too , that the very notion of ‘ permissiveness ’ , and its converse , is a slippery one ; in many cases it would seem to mean little more than an exchange of more overt physical controls for more subtle emotional controls . |
| 7 | But while the telephone itself remains little more than an instrument for reproducing speech and other sounds at a distance , over the last decade we have seen dramatic growth in the availability and use of computers , modems and fax to transmit documentary and computerised information over the telephone network . |
| 8 | Mills and Boon , however , rigorously deny any charge of producing ‘ formula fiction ’ ; their instructions to potential authors , as they insist , and as some critics have noted with surprise , add up to little more than an encouragement to ‘ freshness and originality of approach ’ . |
| 9 | He claimed that her private world had been little more than an experiment in frenzy , and that a breakdown had been inevitable . |
| 10 | No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection . |
| 11 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |
| 12 | However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs . |
| 13 | Those who regard the media as little more than an arm of the capitalist state ( Miliband , 1969 ) will be content with a structural or conspiratorial explanation , emphasising the institutional dependence and ideological role of the media . |
| 14 | There is nothing wrong with this , and in fact soft milk cheese is little more than an extension of junket . |