Example sentences of "be [adj] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 32 | Indeed , I heard several times his lordship express the view that without the participation of such a personage , any discussion on the topic of Germany would be little more than an indulgence . |
| 33 | Indeed , a large part of his public life and known history would seem to be little more than an embodiment and re-enactment of the prophecies . |
| 34 | And er if they 're on the short tour there 's just a straight you know , says this is the kitchen and this would be this that and the other . |
| 35 | Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer . |
| 36 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 37 | Pricing has n't been finalised , but the firm says it should n't be much more than the cost of the Motif implementations it supplies . |
| 38 | It could n't be much more than an hour ? |
| 39 | spaces are one less than the number of posts . |
| 40 | If ethologists are truly interested in an ethology of human relating we have to drop the pretence that , given present knowledge , evolutionary arguments are any more than a game for the psychologically literate . |
| 41 | So the Macho Man is where my money is — even if he is little more than a heap of flesh and bone . ’ |
| 42 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 43 | Ermine moths , for example , economise by constructing a cocoon that is little more than a lattice . |
| 44 | In the middle of combat , one is little more than a wave in the sea … a stroke of the brush lost in the painting … |
| 45 | 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 ’ . |
| 46 | The pickups and scratchplate look familiar , of course , but this is little more than a tip of the cap in the direction of Fender . |
| 47 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 48 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 49 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 50 | It is certainly the case that urban areas such as inner Liverpool would benefit from private sector involvement and a stronger economic base but as Barnekov , Boyle and Rich ( 1989 ) point out this is little more than a truism . |
| 51 | The tenant 's adviser should be on his guard against such a provision since it is little more than a trap for the tenant , particularly since the figure specified by the landlord need not be a bona fide and genuine pre-estimate of the market rent ( Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd ( 1980 ) 257 EG 489 ) . |
| 52 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
| 53 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 54 | No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection . |
| 55 | The increasing use of local area networks , where the PC is little more than an access terminal and important data is stored on a central file server , is also changing buying habits . |
| 56 | There is nothing wrong with this , and in fact soft milk cheese is little more than an extension of junket . |
| 57 | This actually is little more than the theology of Genesis chapter two . |
| 58 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 59 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 60 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |