Example sentences of "be [adj] more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is tabloid film-making in which the protagonists are cardboard cut-outs , played by lookalike actors whose portrayals , however skilful , are doomed to be little more than glorified Mike Yarwood impersonations . |
| 2 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 3 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 4 | Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples . |
| 5 | Locke rejects this , though his arguments against Descartes 's identification of body with extension tend to be little more than initial difficulties . |
| 6 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 7 | In practice , few of the conceptual embellishments of the idea of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ proved to be any more than occasional glimpses of what an ideal press ought to be like . |
| 8 | Experiment more with fresh herbs and spices — part of the modern passion for salt is little more than bored taste-buds ! |
| 9 | It is less spectacular than many , there is little more than broken masonry , but though there are many more dramatic landscapes , there can be few so utterly Hellenic . |
| 10 | We should not be trying to create an image that school is little more than some form of elaborate and expensive ‘ Trivial pursuit ’ ( Sullivan 1988 ) . |
| 11 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 12 | Much of the content of such literary activity was little more than political pornography . |
| 13 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |
| 14 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 15 | The fact was that he was soured by a murder case with no body , by family enmity amounting to hatred , by a surfeit of gossip and a veneer of superstition which was much more than half pretence . |