Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 2 | Then the meetings became little more than quarterly distributions of the papers . |
| 3 | Umberto Eco complains , ‘ Unfortunately , ‘ postmodern ’ … is applied today to anything the user happens to like ’ ( in Hutcheon 1988 : 42 ) : as he suggests , the term is increasingly used in the media to signify little more than vague approval of what is new and striking in contemporary culture . |
| 4 | But all these agreements remain little more than pious hopes , even when , as in the case of Anna Wolska , President Walesa himself attempted to translate them into action . |
| 5 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 6 | Even when successful prosecutions have been brought , the courts have been reluctant to impose little more than nominal sanctions on miscreants . |
| 7 | I do n't know any more than other people what is likely to succeed . |
| 8 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
| 9 | Sexuality involves much more than sexual intercourse . |
| 10 | It should be noted , however , that heads were on the whole reluctant to ascribe much more than moderate success to their coordinators in respect of any of these aims . |
| 11 | Push towards the limits of the tyres ' adhesion , though , and you provoke little more than mild understeer and a screech of protest from the Continental Sport Contact 195/50 VR15 rubber . |
| 12 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 13 | Some , such as froghoppers ( ‘ cuckoo spit ’ ) and flea beetles , cause little more than cosmetic damage and will be tolerated by healthy plants . |
| 14 | All too frequently the merger agreement ( which may itself comprise little more than random heads of agreement born of their production by separate teams working on specific issues ) will be relied upon as a sufficient substitute . |
| 15 | But do n't expect much more than pompous doggerel in the words . |
| 16 | There are some within education who quarrel with an approach which , with an emphasis on objectives and skill development , appears to require little more than continuing compliance from pupils . |
| 17 | Increasingly it appears that the cabinet operates through a network of committees , the result being that ministers may be bound by decisions in which they have had little more than nominal participation . |
| 18 | Toughened glass costs much more than normal float glass and it must be ordered cut to size . |
| 19 | Despite assurances from advisers over the confidentiality of information presented in the self-appraisal , it seems that most staff were unwilling to produce anything more than a public type of document , providing little more than factual information . |
| 20 | They are certainly simple and that is one of the chief advantages of cash accounting : it takes little more than common sense to understand and interpret . |
| 21 | Even if the student attempts to revise , he/she will tend no to do much more than mere repetition . |
| 22 | But the most important point is that very often auditors are required to do much more than express opinions on financial statements , in the public sector in general and in government particularly . |
| 23 | Best of all , the safety mattress does not cost much more than standard foam . |
| 24 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 25 | In Hong Kong itself the political model put forward by the subcommittee was generally regarded as inadequate and designed to permit little more than token democracy . |
| 26 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 27 | It is difficult to see why they would be deterred any more than fined traffic-offenders are deterred ; they can calculate rationally the cost of future fines and build that into any contemplation of irregular and illegal behaviour . |
| 28 | Hostess work in some of the clubs involved little more than chiselling money out of tourists for fake champagne , and the money that changed hands for street assignations almost invariably led to an instant disappearance with no follow-through . |
| 29 | Indeed , in the eyes of some , the clergyman and the wizard continued to represent little more than alternative conduits of a much needed protective magic . |
| 30 | Their faces have come to represent little more than voluble wealth . |