Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain CCM is not much more than a cottage industry , largely because of lack of radio exposure . |
| 2 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
| 3 | Mary had the chance to learn her trade as something much more than a queen consort from a politician of great skill and finesse . |
| 4 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 5 | It has already been stressed that the NACAB information system is very much more than a reference work . |
| 6 | It is not much more than a landing strip hacked out of the Canadian wilderness in eastern Ontario , about 200 miles north east of Winnipeg . |
| 7 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
| 8 | It is time that technical education remained not much more than a debating topic , although the Education Act 1918 , did make 14 the universal minimum leaving age and , far more controversial , it began to introduce compulsory part-time day continuation classes . |
| 9 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 10 | It 's really much more than a cleaning service because it has helped me emotionally , ’ she says . |
| 11 | The language used throughout these public self-descriptions reflected general visions of altruism and service : ‘ public protection ’ , ‘ willing to serve the public ’ , ‘ public confidence ’ , ‘ trust ’ , ‘ special skill ’ , ‘ the supply of professional services is very much more than a business transaction ’ . |
| 12 | All this and a war hero to boot . |
| 13 | A goods transporter — little more than a metal platform hovering a few centimetres above the floor — edged through the doorway , with the sixth android at the controls . |
| 14 | Dean , an early influence on anyone of Jack 's age , had little more than a year left of his life and was in regular attendance in 1954 , which was also the year Marlon Brando made it very big indeed in another Kazan film , On the Waterfront . |
| 15 | Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians . |
| 16 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |
| 17 | Demand for advice is strongest amongst actual victims of computer misuse , where it is effectively little more than a damage limitation exercise . |
| 18 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , resistance on the part of the Uruguayan government to Soviet overtures in 1959 for a larger share of the market indicated that the agreement had been little more than a contingency measure on the part of Montevideo . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The corridor he was facing was less than twenty ch'i long ; a narrow , dimly lit affair that was little more than a feeder tunnel to the maintenance hatch in the ceiling at its far end . |
| 23 | Indeed , ingenious CD-ROM publishers nowadays often regard it as little more than a development constraint to be accepted , designed out and disregarded . |
| 24 | This found that , without guidance , teachers gave what was little more than a reflexive response — all that the majority of primary school teachers appeared to wish to receive was more basic skills training . |
| 25 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 26 | From the basement casino through the ground-floor restaurant to the top-floor penthouse , it was little more than a money pit for any out-of-towner with an expense account . |
| 27 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio . |
| 30 | The certificate on form R190(SD) must be completed but this can be done at any time and amounts to little more than a claim procedure . |