Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all these agreements remain little more than pious hopes , even when , as in the case of Anna Wolska , President Walesa himself attempted to translate them into action . |
| 2 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 3 | Push towards the limits of the tyres ' adhesion , though , and you provoke little more than mild understeer and a screech of protest from the Continental Sport Contact 195/50 VR15 rubber . |
| 4 | Some , such as froghoppers ( ‘ cuckoo spit ’ ) and flea beetles , cause little more than cosmetic damage and will be tolerated by healthy plants . |
| 5 | Perhaps he is optimistic in assuming that the students he has targeted will have much in the way of explicit grammatical knowledge ; in my experience , first-year British undergraduates have little more than sketchy notions of what nouns and verbs are . |