Example sentences of "[vb base] little more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 3 | Seven supplements , 136 pages and a rolling roster of high profile commentators aggressively signal the ST 's intention to represent ‘ every shade of opinion ’ even if , given the paper 's overall ideological complexion , some of the captured names suggest little more than tokenism . |
| 4 | Despite the massive exodus from the major cities in the 1970s , in 1981 more than three-fifths ( 62.6 per cent ) of Britain 's 54.3 million people were still living in twenty ‘ metropolitan regions ’ which occupy little more than one-fifth of the country 's land area . |
| 5 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 6 | Rent 's supposed allies appear little more than an improbable amalgam of all those who might be opposed to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella , and it is hard to believe that the conspiracy had such wide-ranging support . |
| 7 | Instead of government-rigged prices , they want little more than a reaffirmation of existing anti-dumping rules . |
| 8 | The provisions the Committee recommend for inclusion involve little more than a restatement of the existing common law position : |
| 9 | At the higher levels of government , candidates are usually selected by the top leaders themselves , another element of ‘ top down ’ power , making the actual election process little more than a ‘ rubber stamping ’ exercise . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some , such as froghoppers ( ‘ cuckoo spit ’ ) and flea beetles , cause little more than cosmetic damage and will be tolerated by healthy plants . |
| 12 | Aerial photographs reveal little more than the site 's main features , and plotting scatters of surface finds only gives a reasonable guide to its centre , with little information about its extent or shape . |
| 13 | An inexpensive pond heater will solve the problem — and cost little more than a lightbulb to run . |
| 14 | And finally , there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle . |
| 15 | In comparison with Porter 's work , the lists of factors given by General Electric back in the 1970s now seem little more than a tentative beginning at an appropriate form of analysis . |
| 16 | The dental remains indicate little more than a dependence on a hard-fruit diet , and there may have been several species with this inclination . |
| 17 | B — indicate little more than the immediate place of work during the construction of the pavements of a single building . |
| 18 | I know little more than you do about what we 're doing . ’ |
| 19 | Such abuses were seldom reported , thorough investigations were rarely held , and " the few perpetrators disciplined or prosecuted usually get little more than a slap on the wrist and most know they can get away with it unchallenged " . |
| 20 | We already know that many of the existing members of the Community currently pay little more than lip service to EC directives . |
| 21 | Most of them demand little more than a ‘ view with a loo ’ — a place to park , a cup of tea and adequate toilet facilities . |
| 22 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 23 | The GIS operations constitute little more than a sequence of map overlays in the form of a Boolean search . |
| 24 | At best they furnish little more than an outline guide to the interpretation of the numerical data , a hint of the kind of hypothesis that needs to be tested . |
| 25 | Noteworthy design features of the Swearingen SJ30 include a tiny , highly swept wing with powerful high-lift devices , small-diameter cabin and marked area-ruling around the engines , giving a max cruise of 0.77 Mach despite its low power — its Williams/R-R fanjets have little more than half the thrust of a Lear 31A 's engines . |
| 26 | Perhaps he is optimistic in assuming that the students he has targeted will have much in the way of explicit grammatical knowledge ; in my experience , first-year British undergraduates have little more than sketchy notions of what nouns and verbs are . |
| 27 | The self-centred and materialistic climate of the decade corrodes ideals and concerns about social justice , narrowing perspectives to the point where conversations comprise little more than house prices or retiling the bathroom . |
| 28 | However , insurrection and revolution , whether by peasants or others , explain little more than the timing of some cases of serf emancipation , and nothing about the abolition of slavery . |
| 29 | In one way , they represent little more than the attempts of established disciplines to retain market share in a situation of academic and economic scarcity . |
| 30 | As a result , Areas of Interest Maps represent little more than a statement of intent at a given moment in time by BC . |