Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] little more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 2 | The descent , mirrored by a similar plunge against the dollar , has taken little more than a fortnight . |
| 3 | Collaborative change , with negotiation between professional groups and the state , may be the best way forward , but without strong government control it risks becoming little more than a tinkering with the existing system . |
| 4 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 5 | Even the agitations of the women 's movement would have warranted little more than a raised eyebrow from a lass in a Salvation Army bonnet that had to be strong enough to protect the head of the wearer from brick bats and other missiles . |
| 6 | Most of the 400,000 people who turned out to watch saw little more than a few sparks over the Scheldt . |
| 7 | So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds . |
| 8 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 9 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 10 | In truth , for the most part , town planning at the outbreak of the Second World War had become little more than a token regulatory hand , useful in developing areas , but of little consequence in the existing areas . |
| 11 | Next to Assad 's Syria , Colonel Gaddafi 's Libya had become little more than a refuge for Palestinian extremists , a useful quartermaster s supply depot for arms and explosives , and a convenient whipping boy for Western governments anxious to be seen taking a strong line on terrorism without risking their strategic interests in the Middle East . |
| 12 | In fact the land around this former beauty spot had become little more than a rubbish tip . |
| 13 | The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines . |
| 14 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |
| 15 | Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations . |