Example sentences of "be [det] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , resistance on the part of the Uruguayan government to Soviet overtures in 1959 for a larger share of the market indicated that the agreement had been little more than a contingency measure on the part of Montevideo . |
| 2 | He had been little more than a boy then . |
| 3 | After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years . |
| 4 | Before the marriage Maggie had been little more than a drudge round the house . |
| 5 | His stage presence lately has been little more than a presence ; he seems happy to stand in the shadows , occupying his usual spot on the drum riser while the spotlight dances on Bez and Bez dances with Rowetta and Rowetta plays with her whip , a caricature bad girl playing with the bad boys . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 8 | The whole performance had been little more than a formality , to give an appearance of government by consensus . |
| 9 | In this it may have been little more than a mouthpiece for a Russian directorate but in an article , which , says Sacks , amounted to a reading of the riot act to the ICP , one finds this clear and unmistakable instruction in the French journal Cahiers du Boishévisme : |
| 10 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |
| 11 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 12 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 13 | and , if you 're going along they 're own two and a half , you know |
| 14 | Attendants ' outfits and accessories are all available and a department especially for the men , with a wide range of morning wear , a Highland Collection and evening wear , ensures the best dressed wedding in town . |
| 15 | The fighting which followed took place spasmodically as the moon emerged from behind a cloud or one side fired at the other 's musket flashes and the Battle of Clifton turned out to be little more than a skirmish . |
| 16 | If the campaign goes as well as today 's Oxford launch , by the end of February the charity should be little more than a hop , skip and a jump away from its target . |
| 17 | If the campaign goes as well as today 's Oxford launch , by the end of February the charity should be little more than a hop , skip and a jump away from its target . |
| 18 | ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 20 | That may be little more than a technicality because Mr Duggan added that Chelsea have submitted outline proposals to Cabra and their advisers which may resolve the outstanding issues . |
| 21 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 22 | Someone is doubtless fiftieth in line , and still a potential monarch , but with no supermarkets to open or ships to name , the rights have run out and the potential succession will be little more than a talking point . |
| 23 | Given the wide diversity of views within the Council about the nature of economic cooperation , let alone its political implications , it was not surprising that if anything positive was to come from the idea , it would be little more than a minimalist option . |
| 24 | She did not trust him either , considering him to be little more than a teller of comforting lies , her mother 's doctor oozing reassurance from every pore . |
| 25 | At the lower end of the scale , this might be little more than a garden allotment worked in spare time to supplement the income from a full-time job . |
| 26 | The leader of the county council , Tony Hart , is reported as saying : ’ at the moment it appears to be little more than a line on the map , and a pretty thick and crude one . ’ |
| 27 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 28 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 29 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't see why it should be any different if a person loses a brain function . ’ |