Example sentences of "little [adj] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pacifism had been abandoned as a means for dealing with fascism and Lansbury was widely ridiculed for his " mission to the dictators " which some on the Left saw as little better than Chamberlain 's visit to Munich . |
| 2 | A reward was offered for the head of every Macgregor delivered to the laird ; families were encouraged to betray their own people with promises of pardon ; women were branded on the forehead ; children were sold as little better than slaves to Lowland and Irish cattle dealers . |
| 3 | The blonde lady , Mrs Johnson , whose daughter Hank regarded as little better than a.streetwalker , found herself appointed chairman of the subcommittee , and she asked if Mrs Stych and the president , the hawk-faced wife of a real estate man , would serve with her . |
| 4 | The Hispanized inhabitants of the lowlands viewed the unconverted pagans as little better than animals , whose lack of sophistication in dealing with a market economy allowed them to be exploited through debt bondage and coerced trade . |
| 5 | They massacred the Filipinos , regarding them as little better than dogs . |
| 6 | In fact , the consolidated balance sheet is published for little more than completeness : it gives the net debit balances and net credit balances for the organization to be carried forward to the new financial year . |
| 7 | While the primary ethnographic accounts of life and character in such peaceful societies usually present multi-dimensional pictures of complex human beings , these pictures tend to become more and more one-dimensional as the material is employed in secondary and tertiary works , where the original complexity is often reduced to little more than caricature . |
| 8 | Films , in London at the time , for theatrical types , were considered as little more than perks . |
| 9 | I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness . |
| 10 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 11 | Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . |
| 12 | He wrote : " All the occurrences of Jurassic formations … amount to little more than relics of marginal lappings of the sea around the edges of the continents ; the sole exception being the Tethys " . |
| 13 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 14 | In many cases , they are provided as little more than typesetting tapes , in need of considerable ’ cleaning up ’ or normalisation . |
| 15 | State authorities attempting to regulate youth culture are seen as little more than parent substitutes . |
| 16 | During that period Lukic had little more than back passes to worry him ( AND SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF THE LEEDS FANS SEZ ME ) |
| 17 | There was no sound of impact and certainly no disintegration for when the water and the spray cleared away there was only the empty sea and curiously small waves , little more than ripples , radiating outwards from the point of impact . |
| 18 | We already know that many of the existing members of the Community currently pay little more than lip service to EC directives . |
| 19 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 20 | Western governments generally expressed sympathy for the Lithuanian cause and concern at Soviet military pressure and the economic blockade , and Prunskiene was received everywhere by heads of government , but these governments did little more than call for restraint by both sides and for negotiations . |
| 21 | You will be physically smaller and able to fit into smaller clothes but you will still be flabby and unfit , or , if you overdo it , you will be little more than skin and bone . |
| 22 | The distinction , however , is little more than skin deep . |
| 23 | The court was told that the dog was so emaciated that it was little more than skin and bone . |
| 24 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 25 | Lithified materials may require little more than decision on the orientations of thin sections needed for later examination under the optical microscope , but special slide preparation and cementing media may be required , particularly if soluble minerals are thought to be present ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 26 | Little is still known of the designers and speculators of this part of the town 's growth , save that they were often little more than smallholders or jobbing builders who saw the possibility of some quick profits on their small capital . |
| 27 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 28 | But much of that was little more than Lobby gossip . |
| 29 | Abrasive cleaners : At their simplest these are the scouring powders formulated from little more than sand or feldspar , the aggregate and a small amount of chlorine release agent . |
| 30 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |