Example sentences of "[adj] [det] than a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | So the Macho Man is where my money is — even if he is little more than a heap of flesh and bone . ’ |
| 32 | In many ways the Council of Europe was little more than a continuation of the traditional format of cooperation , transcribed to a bigger stage , and could not itself move forward to a supranational or federalist future . |
| 33 | Lear 's participation transformed the work of Mrs Gould , which in the Himalayan Birds was little more than a continuation of eighteenth-century productions , into dynamic and expressive works of art . |
| 34 | The provisions the Committee recommend for inclusion involve little more than a restatement of the existing common law position : |
| 35 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 36 | Barbados , which even now has little more than a quarter of a million people , has led the way with a roll of honour of mind-boggling proportions . |
| 37 | In part , this reflected the greatly reduced role of hospital services , which fell from three-quarters to little more than a quarter of all residential places . |
| 38 | An added paradox to the Narvik actions was the Germans ' own demolitions that destroyed much of the port 's facilities , reducing iron-ore shipments to little more than a quarter of the pre-war level . |
| 39 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 40 | Agriculture provides little more than a quarter of total exports ; no doubt that figure can be improved , but not enormously . |
| 41 | Altogether , these small builders were responsible for little more than a quarter of the houses . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 44 | Yet they also point to the conflict between feminism inside art history , which often seems little more than a maker of changing the gender of the artist as hero , and feminism as a more complex , multi-focused , or interdisciplinary project which utterly transforms the objects art history usually studies by refusing to treat them as simply ‘ works of art ’ created by ‘ artists ’ . |
| 45 | These texts attributed to Phocylides and to Hecataeus of Miletus are at least two centuries later — with the difference that " Phocylides " covers a forgery , whereas " Hecataeus of Miletus " is a wrong attribution , little more than a slip of the pen . |
| 46 | As a result , Areas of Interest Maps represent little more than a statement of intent at a given moment in time by BC . |
| 47 | The GIS operations constitute little more than a sequence of map overlays in the form of a Boolean search . |
| 48 | The notion of a learned non-correlation fails for a rather different reason — it can accommodate the facts but largely because it attempts little more than a redescription of the facts to be explained . |
| 49 | Instead of government-rigged prices , they want little more than a reaffirmation of existing anti-dumping rules . |
| 50 | In many cases the foundries and forges were widely separated , even where commonly owned ; the sites were often little more than a combination of untidy wooden huts with the occasional brick emplacement . |
| 51 | In the end , this is a book without a conclusion — despite its charts , its statistical tables and its thickets of notes , it offers little more than a collection of historical raw material . |
| 52 | The strong diagonal wind allowed little more than a glimpse of the sweeping crossfield passing game of which they are capable . |
| 53 | The further diminution of the role of gold amounted , then , to little more than a recognition of the existing situation . |
| 54 | The teak paddles began to rotate , making little more than a whisper of sound as they gently scythed the warm air . |
| 55 | He held her gaze as he lowered his head and took her mouth in a kiss that was little more than a whisper of sensation , a fleeting brush of one soul against another , and Fran shuddered . |
| 56 | Little more than a handful of people have died there in 22 years of the ‘ troubles ’ . |
| 57 | DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) . |
| 58 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 59 | The volume is really little more than a set of expanded notes ; but what it lacks in inspiration on that score , it more than makes up by its sheer usefulness , not least as an examination primer . |
| 60 | The transformation of what was little more than a set of lawyers ' chambers to a fully fledged government department is a story worth telling , with portents still to come . |