Example sentences of "be [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 'll be dry this evening and for much of the night , but the cloud 's going to thicken and there could be a few spots of light rain over high ground by dawn . |
| 2 | I would like to see Dances with Wolves he 'll probably be asleep any way Dinda . |
| 3 | It was now , at the moment of supreme triumph , that it became apparent once more that the fates were intervening to demonstrate that the day was to be memorable most of all for its disasters . |
| 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 | However , there is a danger that the smoke could be little more than a pungent sign of burning fingers . |
| 6 | Adeane 's function as private secretary appeared to be little more than the job of arranging the Prince 's schedule around polo and the children 's bath times . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Locke rejects this , though his arguments against Descartes 's identification of body with extension tend to be little more than initial difficulties . |
| 9 | You will be physically smaller and able to fit into smaller clothes but you will still be flabby and unfit , or , if you overdo it , you will be little more than skin and bone . |
| 10 | Either way it is likely , as Palmerston said of a projected coalition with Disraeli in 1857 , to be little more than ‘ the accident and fortuitous concurrence of atoms ’ . |
| 11 | That may be little more than a technicality because Mr Duggan added that Chelsea have submitted outline proposals to Cabra and their advisers which may resolve the outstanding issues . |
| 12 | The poem would then be little more than a series of distortions , ‘ propaganda for the victors ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed , I heard several times his lordship express the view that without the participation of such a personage , any discussion on the topic of Germany would be little more than an indulgence . |
| 14 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 15 | At the lower end of the scale , this might be little more than a garden allotment worked in spare time to supplement the income from a full-time job . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( Opposite , top ) Self-defence for a rhinoceros may be little more than casting a sleepily arrogant eye on the hungry lions surrounding it ; for an agitated elephant , on the other hand , it may be a vigorous charge . |
| 18 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 19 | ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The fighting which followed took place spasmodically as the moon emerged from behind a cloud or one side fired at the other 's musket flashes and the Battle of Clifton turned out to be little more than a skirmish . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples . |
| 23 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 28 | In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders . |
| 29 | But it soon became apparent that Britain still preferred little more than an effective interlocking system of treaties along the lines of the Treaty of Dunkirk : increasingly , if these were initiated , they would be little more than holding operations until the United States shared in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 30 | Given the wide diversity of views within the Council about the nature of economic cooperation , let alone its political implications , it was not surprising that if anything positive was to come from the idea , it would be little more than a minimalist option . |