Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The heat had sprung up quite suddenly : the change from late winter to high summer — six months of European weather — was compressed into little more than a Delhi fortnight . |
2 | All these small invertebrates — flying insects trapped in webs by spiders , larvae concealed in bark picked out by woodpeckers , molluscs hidden in mud gathered by wading birds , termites licked up by anteaters — all are harvested with little more than the effort expended by those animals that sip nectar and munch pollen , or gather fruit and chew leaves . |
3 | Legal Aid in England , due to the difference in rules of evidence , may be granted on little more than an ex parte statement by the applicant . |
4 | However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun . |
5 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
6 | Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment — it was the best way to make serious money . |
7 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
8 | They produce most satisfactory results , are relatively inexpensive , and can be located on the basic carrier systems shown by little more than a ‘ twinstick ’ mounting pad . |
9 | However , this reason was offered by little more than a third of all temporary workers . |
10 | The pictures showed various angles of a small room that was furnished with little more than a big couch , a hi-fi and a table of drinks . |
11 | DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) . |
12 | The policy was based on little more than a vague belief in the large potential for economies of scale and an unquenchable faith among politicians that government agencies could successfully meet short-term political demands — particularly in respect of regional unemployment — in combination with longer-term goals of greater efficiency and higher industrial growth . |
13 | Suspicions of a CIA ‘ plant ’ deepened further when word leaked out that the matching of the Lockerbie circuit board fragment with the timers seized in Dakar was based on little more than a photographic comparison . ) |
14 | Interest in Longhorn cattle is now based on much more than the breed 's aesthetic appeal . |
15 | But , thanks to a combination of high interest rates on traditional deposit accounts over much of this period , coupled to a distinct lack of publicity for SAYE , it has been relegated to little more than a footnote in the long list of savings options . |
16 | Old glassfibre boats are just about infinitely reparable and even that one-time scourge of the plastic boat , osmosis , is reduced to little more than an irritant . |
17 | Scant make-up was applied , and her pale gold hair was treated to little more than a few vigorous strokes of a brush . |
18 | Shabby brick apartments stretch for block after block , dotted with little more than the odd liquor store , fried-chicken shack and cheque-cashing shop , well buttoned up with wire mesh and bullet-proof glass . |
19 | Haydn 's Nelson Mass may have overt marshall overtones , but this was surely little excuse for what , at times , descended to little more than an inglorious romp . |
20 | Noreen 's role had diminished to little more than a chaperone for Maria . |
21 | Although she was supported by little more than a third of the electorate ( or 40% or so of those voting ) , there seemed no prospect of ousting her from office . |
22 | Apple Computer Inc has been left with little more than a garbage can in its protracted suit against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co alleging that Windows infringes its copyright in the Macintosh user interface . |
23 | Without this we are left with little more than the old rather ‘ Whiggish ’ account of how reasonable men gradually came to perceive women 's ills . |
24 | You had put on much more than a dress , there was such a vivid aura of theatre and drama surrounding it . |
25 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
26 | The talks ended with little more than an agreement to hold a third round in Norway in early 1993 . |
27 | This Eurocentrism was inevitable at a time when in Europe only European history was at all well known , and Marx 's and Engels 's ‘ general ’ stages often read like little more than a generalized history of western Europe . |
28 | Now that the two have fallen out , over maintaining a single currency and unified armed forces , the successor to the Soviet Union has dwindled to little more than a name . |