Example sentences of "than [art] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that people should spend as little as possible on themselves and think as little as possible about themselves — no more , indeed , than the little thought that was needed to keep them usefully alive . |
| 2 | ‘ Worse than the little horror inside a Dalek casing . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , his attempt to move international relations from the study of relations between nations to the study of ‘ world society ’ ( leaving aside the essential vagueness of this latter idea ) , did represent a progressive problem shift for all those interested in the elephants rather than the little creatures . |
| 4 | I think it 's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it . |
| 5 | Which I 'd say is less useful in fact than the little ones . |
| 6 | ‘ But I ca n't picture him any other way than the little boy he was on that last day I saw him . ’ |
| 7 | Gudgeon are the chief target as they certainly weigh better than the little perch and tiny silver fish , ’ said Steve . |
| 8 | The holy , rather , formed the permanent context of life , always and everywhere present , animating a community larger than the little group gathered around the altar , ready at any moment to manifest blessing or power , at special moments or special places . |
| 9 | It contains no spices ; but sip with care , for at the bottom of every cup lurks more than a little sediment . |
| 10 | What better way to liven up these lazy summer days than a little trade-up rumpus between Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 11 | Joanne and the other members of the team of teachers working with the intake year embarked on the new curriculum with a good deal of enthusiasm and more than a little apprehension . |
| 12 | The sentiment behind ‘ You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends ’ was lauded by the music press but Gedge was being more than a little hollow . |
| 13 | Numbers of influential visitors to Germany , mostly connected with commerce , the aristocracy , or both , came back with more than a little sympathy for what Hitler was achieving . |
| 14 | Feeling more than a little self conscious now that the adrenalin had ebbed away , I addressed the single , lit eye : ‘ OK , love ? ’ |
| 15 | Finally he lowered the papers on to the desk and whistled through his teeth in astonishment , and more than a little dismay . |
| 16 | My open support of the Irish struggle , reading pro-Sinn Fein poems at school assembly when it was my turn to choose a reading two weeks after the Birmingham pub bombing caused more than a little outrage and several stern pep talks , culminating in threatened expulsion from the headmistress . |
| 17 | She looked at him bleakly , feeling more than a little hurt . |
| 18 | It was a day or two before I realized that his behaviour was becoming more than a little frenetic , to say the least . |
| 19 | Last winter round here there was nothing more alarming than a little cat-ice in the margins , gone by midday , and it 's now at the stage where I think advice on constructing insulating entire pool covers may have been overtaken by the global weather pattern . |
| 20 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 21 | One or two of the instructions are ambiguous , some of the parts do not fit together as they are supposed to and more than a little initiative is required to complete the project . |
| 22 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 23 | After two months of solid work and more than a little imagination , John and Jenny have created a marvellous centrepiece for their home . |
| 24 | But anyone who had read more than a little crime fiction will know that in fact the two often go together . |
| 25 | It was uncanny and more than a little unnerving to watch : the perfect hunter at work . |
| 26 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 27 | In teacher-training colleges lecturers have new theories of history that do away with the learning of ‘ facts ’ in favour of imaginative identification with more than a little colouring from the modern stereotypes that possess their own imagination . |
| 28 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 29 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 30 | As Trofim Denosovich Lysenko well knew , more than a little bashing is required to undermine the integrity of science . |