Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the end it 's little more than a Caribbean Cheers . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | What many of the six million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year have discovered is that it is much more than a traditional eating-out and shop-till-you-drop paradise . |
| 5 | Gassendi does not claim , of course , that it is any more than a hypothesis that the properties , changes , and actions of things are to be explained by reference to their atomic parts . |
| 6 | She felt — it was much more than a memory-Toss Barnet 's strong hand holding hers , his lips on her cheek . |
| 7 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 10 | From my childhood days it was little more than a map , a puzzling weaver , a many tailed whip in the hands of the north wind . |
| 11 | The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ . |
| 12 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 13 | It was little more than a house , really , with one lounge filled with basketwork chairs and with tables littered with old magazines . |
| 14 | In reality , it was little more than a face-saving formula . |
| 15 | Under the Soviet system , it was little more than a bureaucracy to collect personal savings for which there was no other legal outlet . |
| 16 | But it was little more than a hamlet : a fine but small Norman church , an inn , a few houses and cottages and in the distance , farm buildings . |
| 17 | The only item of business , the election of the Khashort space of time that it was clear to everyone that it was little more than a formality . |
| 18 | From the basement casino through the ground-floor restaurant to the top-floor penthouse , it was little more than a money pit for any out-of-towner with an expense account . |
| 19 | The ceiling reminded him about the church , the roof had been mended but really it was little more than a pig sty . |
| 20 | It was little more than a whimper as she shook her head , refusing to answer . |
| 21 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 22 | It was little more than a whisper as she walked towards him . |
| 23 | It was little more than a glass-sided army hut , but there was plenty of mahogany , ebony and zebra skin , and a tall cone of polished copper in the centre of the floor became a fireplace at the touch of a switch . |