Example sentences of "little more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The certificate on form R190(SD) must be completed but this can be done at any time and amounts to little more than a claim procedure . |
| 2 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 3 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 4 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 5 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 6 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 7 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 8 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 9 | Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products . |
| 10 | However , there is a danger that the smoke could be little more than a pungent sign of burning fingers . |
| 11 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 12 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 13 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 14 | The Peking Daily , organ of the city 's ultra-conservative party organisation , accused the disgraced former leader of trying to turn the party into little more than a ‘ social club ’ shorn of power . |
| 15 | The descent , mirrored by a similar plunge against the dollar , has taken little more than a fortnight . |
| 16 | Yet Pomgol was little more than a conglomerate made up of other relevant state departments . |
| 17 | Emigration to Australia or New Zealand , let alone the United States , which had its own extreme problems of crime and racial violence , was little more than a trickle . |
| 18 | And it occurs so easily — almost passively — requiring little more than a relinquishing of the effort of emulation , the erasure of ‘ to be like ’ and the surrender to what remains : ‘ I desire … you ’ ; thus : ‘ I desire ( to be like ) you ’ . |
| 19 | The third National Government followed upon the resignation of the Liberal ministers and of the free trader , Snowden , in September 1932 , after which it became little more than a Conservative government , with the adhesion of a few ex-Labour and Liberal politicians , all owing their seats to an electoral pact with the Conservatives . |
| 20 | Before the marriage Maggie had been little more than a drudge round the house . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 23 | However , it is only fair to add that , in this case , the surviving windmill structure was little more than a ruinous stone stump before conversion work began ( Plate 41 ) . |
| 24 | The warehouse had suffered considerably from the neglect associated with its low-grade use as a hay barn and was little more than a masonry shell devoid of weather-tight windows and doors when the work of conversion commenced . |
| 25 | The house itself was unimpressive , little more than a low-lying cottage of modern design which would not easily accommodate four grown-up people . |
| 26 | The identification of lust with ‘ brown girls ’ probably had no racial connotations in that innocently discriminatory age ; but the scenes towards the end where the Witch tries to capture John with her wiles do leave the disconcerting impression that Lewis thought of Christianity as little more than a good ‘ cure ’ for lust . |
| 27 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 28 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 29 | The fact that the Greens ' ‘ Europe of the Regions ’ is little more than a nostalgic fantasy and their economic policies might rapidly place even organic small-holders in the same income bracket as Third World peasants was not important . |
| 30 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |