Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Yet Pomgol was little more than a conglomerate made up of other relevant state departments . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | They met in the lobby , which was little more than a hallway graced by a couple of wooden armchairs . |
| 35 | Allowing for handicap adjustment , there was little more than a stroke between them . |
| 36 | In his opinion , though it had never been openly expressed , she was little more than a flibbertigibbet whose thoughts rarely ranged further afield than the next gratification . |
| 37 | The ceiling reminded him about the church , the roof had been mended but really it was little more than a pig sty . |
| 38 | The transformation of what was little more than a set of lawyers ' chambers to a fully fledged government department is a story worth telling , with portents still to come . |
| 39 | To him , I was little more than a traitor . |
| 40 | Her voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 41 | Ellwood 's voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 42 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 43 | It was little more than a whisper as she walked towards him . |
| 44 | He held her gaze as he lowered his head and took her mouth in a kiss that was little more than a whisper of sensation , a fleeting brush of one soul against another , and Fran shuddered . |
| 45 | He did n't move closer to her , but his voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | In September 1197 the Emperor Henry VI had died at the age of 32 , leaving an heir who was little more than a baby . |
| 48 | The Paris museum ( colloquially known as the Jardin des Plantes ) was much more than a museum for the display of exotic specimens . |
| 49 | As the formula clearly involved some reduction in wages , this was much more than a formality . |
| 50 | In the United States and Canada the country station , with or without garden , was much more than a stopping-place for passing trains . |
| 51 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |