Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time they were merely unwanted parasites and I was little more than a puzzled observer . |
| 2 | As you say , I was little more than a boy . |
| 3 | To him , I was little more than a traitor . |
| 4 | ‘ My mother died when I was little more than a child , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 5 | Because from the age of seventeen to twenty nine I worked on building sites , and that got boring so I changed and I changed and became a policeman , and I ca became a policeman when I was twenty nine and a half and it 's , I 've enjoyed it ever since cos every day is interesting , every day is different , every day is unusual . |
| 6 | By the end of a week she was little more than a living skeleton : her hand lay all day long in Jennifer 's , and from time to time she would open her eyes , staring pathetically up , with a mute pleading in her expression that no words of comfort or whispered prayers could dispel . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She did n't even exist in the equation , since , as far as he was concerned , she was little more than a child . |
| 9 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 10 | She felt — it was much more than a memory-Toss Barnet 's strong hand holding hers , his lips on her cheek . |
| 11 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was little more than a house , really , with one lounge filled with basketwork chairs and with tables littered with old magazines . |
| 18 | In reality , it was little more than a face-saving formula . |
| 19 | Under the Soviet system , it was little more than a bureaucracy to collect personal savings for which there was no other legal outlet . |
| 20 | But it was little more than a hamlet : a fine but small Norman church , an inn , a few houses and cottages and in the distance , farm buildings . |
| 21 | The only item of business , the election of the Khashort space of time that it was clear to everyone that it was little more than a formality . |
| 22 | From the basement casino through the ground-floor restaurant to the top-floor penthouse , it was little more than a money pit for any out-of-towner with an expense account . |
| 23 | The ceiling reminded him about the church , the roof had been mended but really it was little more than a pig sty . |
| 24 | It was little more than a whimper as she shook her head , refusing to answer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was little more than a whisper as she walked towards him . |
| 27 | It was little more than a glass-sided army hut , but there was plenty of mahogany , ebony and zebra skin , and a tall cone of polished copper in the centre of the floor became a fireplace at the touch of a switch . |
| 28 | He was little more than a boy . |
| 29 | Other travellers thought he was half mad or a man who could not forget some terrible crime . |