Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] [det] than a [noun] " 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 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 6 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Behind these it requires little more than a bag . |
| 9 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 10 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 11 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | But the idea of true integration — that is , a normal university post — new seems little more than a pipedream . |
| 14 | ‘ Broad-band cable means much more than an increase in the number of TV channels , ’ he said . |
| 15 | But while the telephone itself remains little more than an instrument for reproducing speech and other sounds at a distance , over the last decade we have seen dramatic growth in the availability and use of computers , modems and fax to transmit documentary and computerised information over the telephone network . |
| 16 | So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Home becomes little more than a dormitory , an evening and weekend extension to the office . |
| 19 | Agriculture provides little more than a quarter of total exports ; no doubt that figure can be improved , but not enormously . |
| 20 | It provides little more than a footnote to the account of the journey home . |
| 21 | 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 . |