Example sentences of "little more than an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the Council there were no surprises or novelties about the Committee of Ministers : with each state having one vote and a veto , it became little more than an intergovernmental conference of foreign ministers meeting twice yearly . |
| 2 | To outsiders , the two events may seem little more than an international organization at work , but for Amnesty members these events are charged with significance . |
| 3 | It is true that medical advice may be little more than an educated guess that proves wrong and that close supervision in a therapeutic trial may benefit the patient . |
| 4 | The distinction between capital and maintenance schemes can sometimes amount to little more than an administrative technicality , and as grants for capital schemes are reduced , there is a possibility that old-style capital works will be slipped by under the banner of maintenance . |
| 5 | When lie emigrated to Australia at the age of nineteen Robert Burrows was little more than an irreligious rebel . |
| 6 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 7 | Scrounges — unofficial ways of resisting the uniformity of the beat — often meant little more than an illegal cigarette or a beer , forms of resistance accompanied by their own surreptitious rituals . |
| 8 | Thus the Sizewell inquiry is little more than an expensive public relations exercise . |
| 9 | So while school or college-leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort . |
| 10 | Leibniz would have been little more than an impressionable fool in Kant 's eyes had the caterpillar that he treated with such consideration been a mere thing . |
| 11 | Rent 's supposed allies appear little more than an improbable amalgam of all those who might be opposed to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella , and it is hard to believe that the conspiracy had such wide-ranging support . |
| 12 | Allied aircraft had come under fire from the island — little more than an uninhabited rock supporting a navigational beacon — whilst they were attacking two Iraqi naval vessels on Jan. 22 . |
| 13 | This has been little more than an annotated table of contents of a programme that should extend to 1995 and culminate in WACC 's second World Congress . |
| 14 | Haydn 's Nelson Mass may have overt marshall overtones , but this was surely little excuse for what , at times , descended to little more than an inglorious romp . |
| 15 | NATO as a military alliance in 1950 was little more than an empty shell . |
| 16 | A good string orchestra can attain a degree of pianissimo which amounts to little more than an attenuated whisper , and is also capable of a robust and solid fortissimo which is almost ‘ brassy ’ in its effect . |