Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] more [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 he had to share a bathroom with the four other tenants on the floor , and the room itself consisted of little more than a single bed pushed up against the wall to one side of the room , a wood-wormed wardrobe and a single gas ring for cooking .
2 Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Saggers escaped with little more than a broken elbow and a neck injury after falling from the 22nd floor of flats in Salford , Greater Manchester , on Thursday night .
3 ‘ You — you want me to — to live with you , Felipe ? ’ she asked in little more than a whisper .
4 The sharpest criticism levelled was that the collection amounted to little more than a reshuffling .
5 This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood .
6 The front-page story lacked most of the details with which Tracey had supplied her , and amounted to little more than a rewritten version of the PA copy she had seen .
7 This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood .
8 Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " .
9 A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side .
10 As the hours wore on , the sun became increasing hot , and the wind died to little more than a murmur .
11 She spoke in little more than a whisper : ‘ Is it possible to speak to Comrade Levkovich ?
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