Example sentences of "be [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 32 | Someone is doubtless fiftieth in line , and still a potential monarch , but with no supermarkets to open or ships to name , the rights have run out and the potential succession will be little more than a talking point . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | They had no grasp , those apes , of how close they lay to a state where the devouring beasts of Earth 's infancy would be little more than fleas . |
| 35 | A human life-span is but a blip on the screen of evolution , and the current sea-bird problems may be little more than that . |
| 36 | Even though Jones eventually fell , mis-hooking Pringle just before tea , after 3½ hours of defiance , the last session looked set to be little more than batting practice for the home side . |
| 37 | A defensive tool need be little more than a pointed stick , or hands could pick and hurl rocks at the animal predators . |
| 38 | This is tabloid film-making in which the protagonists are cardboard cut-outs , played by lookalike actors whose portrayals , however skilful , are doomed to be little more than glorified Mike Yarwood impersonations . |
| 39 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 40 | Sometimes it appears to be little more than this , as in the case of the temporary vogue for ‘ Occitania ’ in France in the 1970s , the shift of a number of able intellectuals of the Left to Scottish nationalism in the same decade and the preoccupation with what was claimed to be Valencian national identity in the early 1980s among left intellectuals of the Spanish Levante . |
| 41 | Indeed , a large part of his public life and known history would seem to be little more than an embodiment and re-enactment of the prophecies . |
| 42 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 43 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 44 | It is true that medical advice may be little more than an educated guess that proves wrong and that close supervision in a therapeutic trial may benefit the patient . |
| 45 | These basic requirements were not often met , and teachers were confronted with , and expected to adopt , ideas which might be little more than expressions of officially endorsed belief . |
| 46 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 47 | She did not trust him either , considering him to be little more than a teller of comforting lies , her mother 's doctor oozing reassurance from every pore . |
| 48 | This will often be little more than guess work . |
| 49 | The leader of the county council , Tony Hart , is reported as saying : ’ at the moment it appears to be little more than a line on the map , and a pretty thick and crude one . ’ |
| 50 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 51 | So while school or college-leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort . |
| 52 | In the example given , the damages would be little more than nominal . |
| 53 | If the campaign goes as well as today 's Oxford launch , by the end of February the charity should be little more than a hop , skip and a jump away from its target . |
| 54 | If the campaign goes as well as today 's Oxford launch , by the end of February the charity should be little more than a hop , skip and a jump away from its target . |
| 55 | BILL Clinton ruffled feathers over the thorny issue of American policy on Ulster during his campaign but now he is safely in the White House many promises may turn out to be little more than electioneering . |
| 56 | BRITISH motorists must be grateful this festive time to three ladies who will not see a Christmas day lunch . |
| 57 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 58 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |
| 59 | ‘ Low tide at 4.04 , ’ said Ann , ‘ and we 've been warned to leave not one second later than six , or be marooned all night . |
| 60 | Mr Clarke , speaking on ITN 's News At Ten last night , tried to limit the damage from the disclosure , saying : ‘ All ministers , including David Trippier , agree with me that it can not be right that National Health Service pay can be determined by industrial action of this kind taken by militant trade unions . |