Example sentences of "[prep] be little more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She did not trust him either , considering him to be little more than a teller of comforting lies , her mother 's doctor oozing reassurance from every pore . |
| 12 | The leader of the county council , Tony Hart , is reported as saying : ’ at the moment it appears to be little more than a line on the map , and a pretty thick and crude one . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Indeed , a large part of his public life and known history would seem to be little more than an embodiment and re-enactment of the prophecies . |
| 15 | So while school or college-leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort . |
| 16 | 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 . |