Example sentences of "little more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 32 | further , top management may do little more than pay lip-service to computing . |
| 33 | This model of socialism has involved some limited changes in economic ownership , but in practice has invariably amounted to little more than state direction of predominantly privately owned economic activity , and the maintenance of some minimum standards of social provision for all . |
| 34 | Yet despite this there has mostly in practice been little depth , little more than discussion of opinions with regard to these ultimate questions — what one disillusioned teacher called " mutual exchange of ignorance " . |
| 35 | The self-centred and materialistic climate of the decade corrodes ideals and concerns about social justice , narrowing perspectives to the point where conversations comprise little more than house prices or retiling the bathroom . |
| 36 | Second , the institutions of government , apart from the Council , did little more than process decisions made elsewhere . |
| 37 | Remarkably , a record of little more than mediocrity has already lifted Holyfield within one or two fights of eclipsing every man who 's ever laced on a glove in terms of financial reward . |
| 38 | This type of drill , however , probably teaches little more than familiarity with the verb root . |
| 39 | For instance , Gellner 's attack on analytic philosophy from an anthropological perspective ; the exposure of eugenics in 1930s psychology ; the connections between certain kinds of research in chemistry and the agricultural and food industries ; the models of human motivation — often little more than employee manipulation to be found in management studies ; Illich 's critique of medicine ; and the underlying interest in control over the natural environment within the physical sciences . |
| 40 | Seven supplements , 136 pages and a rolling roster of high profile commentators aggressively signal the ST 's intention to represent ‘ every shade of opinion ’ even if , given the paper 's overall ideological complexion , some of the captured names suggest little more than tokenism . |
| 41 | That should be no barrier , according to Looking Right : ‘ What we must do here is to explain that the political side of things mainly involves what is little more than Party donkeywork . |
| 42 | Hewison 's contention is that the term ‘ postmodernism ’ does little more than signal modernism 's ending : let us than weep for all forms of reflective production , swept away , along with our sense of history , by the marriage of commerce and culture . |
| 43 | Artefacts are frequently reconstructed before they are put on display , which may involve little more than repair work , such as sticking pieces of pot together and filling any remaining gaps . |
| 44 | There were also some presentational reductions in prices in some isolated , small-scale undertakings , where domestic consumers using electricity for very little more than lighting had been charged very high flat rates per kWh . |
| 45 | Many of the most apparently distinguished honours are a reward for little more than longevity or political servitude . |
| 46 | The Army ordered sentries to wear flak jackets and constructed many sandbagged emplacements , although most barracks were still protected by little more than chain link fences . |
| 47 | At first doctors believed he was suffering from little more than sunstroke . |
| 48 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 49 | Enclosure turned small or fragmented holdings and commons suitable for little more than subsistence agriculture into consolidated holdings able to support the new farming and generate capital for improvement . |
| 50 | He talked about selling Astley and although it was probably little more than talk , he was forced to run it extremely economically , and could not think of another London house on the scale of Eaton Square . |
| 51 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |
| 52 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 53 | Norfolk 's and Rent 's adherence to Lancaster was motivated by little more than expediency , and when it looked as though he was not going to win after all they defected to Mortimer . |
| 54 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |
| 55 | The old idea of marketing , which in many cases was little more than selling , focused on making a better product that was easier to sell . |
| 56 | It was Eric 's turn next : his presenter appeared in jogging track suit , and false beard , and needed to do little more than puff heavily round the stage several times intoning ‘ no , not on the roof , no , not on the roof , to bring the house down , rousing laughter even from those who did not know that these were the mysterious words that the Warden had uttered in a loud cry when abruptly roused from slumber during a session of group therapy . |
| 57 | So you end up taking a whole pile of clothes , most of which invariably amount to little more than ballast . |
| 58 | But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines . |