Example sentences of "[was/were] little more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 2 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 3 | The old idea of marketing , which in many cases was little more than selling , focused on making a better product that was easier to sell . |
| 4 | Yet Pomgol was little more than a conglomerate made up of other relevant state departments . |
| 5 | Emigration to Australia or New Zealand , let alone the United States , which had its own extreme problems of crime and racial violence , was little more than a trickle . |
| 6 | However , it is only fair to add that , in this case , the surviving windmill structure was little more than a ruinous stone stump before conversion work began ( Plate 41 ) . |
| 7 | The warehouse had suffered considerably from the neglect associated with its low-grade use as a hay barn and was little more than a masonry shell devoid of weather-tight windows and doors when the work of conversion commenced . |
| 8 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 9 | From my childhood days it was little more than a map , a puzzling weaver , a many tailed whip in the hands of the north wind . |
| 10 | The restaurant was little more than an intelligently decorated semi-basement with space enough for a bar and a half dozen tables . |
| 11 | It was little more than Rangers deserved when they took the lead 10 minutes later when the impressive Sinton played a delightful one-two with Holloway before scoring with a rasping drive . |
| 12 | After England 's winter successes , a Test series win in New Zealand and runners-up to Pakistan in the World Cup , the announcement was little more than a formality . |
| 13 | The weight of the water forced Golden Girl down , as Trent had planned , so that she was little more than awash . |
| 14 | The Irish Labour Party in Derry quickly collapsed , leaving McGonagle at the head of his own small Independent Labour group , which was little more than a personal election machine . |
| 15 | As she drew near the fence she saw that the poor struggling captive was little more than a baby in size , although it was covered with its first soft coat of wool . |
| 16 | At that time they were merely unwanted parasites and I was little more than a puzzled observer . |
| 17 | The stream was little more than a frozen marsh , pierced by tufts of blackened grass . |
| 18 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 19 | Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds , their lumbered heads straining in the wind . |
| 20 | Her voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 21 | On that Friday morning three weeks ago , I was little more than an irritant to dozens of drivers caught in a traffic jam as police cars and ambulances blocked their way to work or school . |
| 22 | David Brand 's hip was weakening his strength as an old wound opened up after hours in the water , and now the canoe was little more than a tiny hulk . |
| 23 | It seems , then , that the average undertaker was little more than a speculative cabinet-maker and joiner who , either by direct contact with the metalworking trades , or via such funeral houses as Richard Green 's , was able to buy in at wholesale all that was required for a funeral . |
| 24 | As you say , I was little more than a boy . |
| 25 | The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ . |
| 26 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 27 | The reception room was little more than a hall . |
| 28 | It was little more than a house , really , with one lounge filled with basketwork chairs and with tables littered with old magazines . |
| 29 | But much of that was little more than Lobby gossip . |
| 30 | He was little more than a boy . |