Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was once an important port , but now contains little more than a wharf , the use of which is also limited by the extremely wide range of the Severn Estuary tides . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 6 | Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two . |
| 7 | Behind these it requires little more than a bag . |
| 8 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 9 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 10 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | But the idea of true integration — that is , a normal university post — new seems little more than a pipedream . |
| 13 | So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Home becomes little more than a dormitory , an evening and weekend extension to the office . |
| 16 | It catches several eel-pout and a couple of butterfish which it eats on the surface , sometimes holding the fish between its forepaws in order to control their writhing . |
| 17 | Agriculture provides little more than a quarter of total exports ; no doubt that figure can be improved , but not enormously . |
| 18 | It provides little more than a footnote to the account of the journey home . |
| 19 | 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 . |