Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [adj] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand for advice is strongest amongst actual victims of computer misuse , where it is effectively little more than a damage limitation exercise . |
| 2 | For the first time the Labour Party — hitherto little more than a pressure group promoting immediate working-class interests in Parliament — was announcing a coherent and independent intervention in the debate on foreign policy . |
| 3 | And she 's still little more than a baby . |
| 4 | According to Ackroyd , Dickens never wrote about sex because it ‘ renders people all alike , while the whole momentum of Dickens ’ fiction is towards uniqueness and peculiarity ’ — a clever theory , certainly , but still little more than a theory . |
| 5 | When she turned , there was no one , but she hurried on , though she no longer knew what she should do , what she should tell her sister , if she should report this request for an assignation somewhere more secret than a church , more private than a byre . |
| 6 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 7 | Here the Dwarfs of antiquity had built their gate , once a vast and impregnable fortress but now little more than a pile of stone through which the road still led . |
| 8 | He had been moving heaven and earth to gain what was now little more than a pittance , in the light of what he had unexpectedly inherited . |
| 9 | Built in 1540 as one of Henry VIII 's network of coastal defences , it is now little more than a rock pile . |
| 10 | Although there was now little more than an hour to go , the actual moment when the lights would go out remained stubbornly remote . |
| 11 | Lewis read the great realists of the past , even of the present , and he sometimes admired them ; but he saw their world as little better than a health-farm , held himself bound by no especial duty to study his own times , and longed for richer fare . |
| 12 | However that might have been , it was clear that the elderly female residents regarded her as little better than a whore . |
| 13 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 14 | One of the ‘ Blue Chips ’ , regarded in her early days as little better than an Edward Heath Youth Movement , the new Secretary of State for the Environment is now her green-eyed boy . |
| 15 | Levitt smiled polite agreement , no more ; he was privately jealous of Lovitch whom he looked upon as little more than a huckster — though it was a well-stocked music shop that Lovitch owned . |
| 16 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 17 | Indeed , ingenious CD-ROM publishers nowadays often regard it as little more than a development constraint to be accepted , designed out and disregarded . |
| 18 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 19 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 20 | Today the Chelt is regarded as little more than a nuisance , its former importance long forgotten . |
| 21 | This one was bodged together from old planks and doors from wrecked houses , intended as little more than a defence in court for the demolition company when some child got through and broke his neck amongst the rubble . |
| 22 | Eleven months later , the indictment of two Libyans for the mass murder of 270 people at Lockerbie struck most Americans as little more than a formality , giving practical effect to what they — ; and most of the media — already thought they knew . |
| 23 | The Kuwait embassy in Jordan described the withdrawal as little more than a manoeuvre to disguise the theft of Kuwaiti military equipment . |
| 24 | Her voice came out as little more than a croak , sounding hollow , afraid . |
| 25 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 26 | He really did think of her as little more than a tramp . |
| 27 | Hitherto she had experienced the unruly masculine spirit inside her soul as little more than a matter for jocular asides or occasional remorse to see it bound like Pedro into mischief ; but notice had now been served . |
| 28 | In that light , and with reggae still regarded as little more than a novelty by the mainstream music business , Shabba 's ambition can only be applauded . |
| 29 | The central character , the archetypal Englishman Jack Good , comes across as little more than a pantomime figure . |
| 30 | Unless there is regular guidance given to parents through workshops and school produced booklets the arrival home of the reading book will be seen as little more than an opportunity to check when the teacher last heard their child read and a chance to rush their child to the next stage on the reading scheme . |