Example sentences of "little more [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders . |
| 32 | People occurred along the way and some would be talked to , questioned , while some were passed by with little more than a cursory glance . |
| 33 | It was a farm track , little more than a rough pathway across the fields . |
| 34 | In so far as it reached out beyond the rather eccentric sect of the Comtist ‘ Religion of Humanity ’ , positivism became little more than a philosophical justification of the conventional method of the experimental sciences , and similarly for most contemporaries Mill was , again in the words of Taine , the man who had opened up ‘ the good old road of induction and experiment ’ . |
| 35 | The house itself was unimpressive , little more than a low-lying cottage of modern design which would not easily accommodate four grown-up people . |
| 36 | In comparison with Porter 's work , the lists of factors given by General Electric back in the 1970s now seem little more than a tentative beginning at an appropriate form of analysis . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 39 | In contrast , the smaller and faster stunters with higher sail loading can be pirouetted over a designated spot and dropped onto their tails with little more than a quick lunge forwards by the flyer . |
| 40 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 41 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |
| 42 | This Eurocentrism was inevitable at a time when in Europe only European history was at all well known , and Marx 's and Engels 's ‘ general ’ stages often read like little more than a generalized history of western Europe . |
| 43 | It seems , then , that the average undertaker was little more than a speculative cabinet-maker and joiner who , either by direct contact with the metalworking trades , or via such funeral houses as Richard Green 's , was able to buy in at wholesale all that was required for a funeral . |
| 44 | When the practical rules applicable to sale and exchange are interchangeable , to distinguish between them is little more than a scholastic exercise . |
| 45 | In reality , it was little more than a face-saving formula . |
| 46 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 47 | The pictures showed various angles of a small room that was furnished with little more than a big couch , a hi-fi and a table of drinks . |
| 48 | Suspicions of a CIA ‘ plant ’ deepened further when word leaked out that the matching of the Lockerbie circuit board fragment with the timers seized in Dakar was based on little more than a photographic comparison . ) |
| 49 | In the Western media the University unrest was given prominent and extensive coverage , although it appeared to amount to little more than a mass bout of bottle throwing , which was nevertheless an act of political defiance aimed at the country 's " elder statesman " leader , Deng Xiaoping , whose last name was a homonym for the words " little bottle " . |
| 50 | He had made known his personal opposition to multiparty politics , claiming that the current campaign was little more than a mass protest against the stringencies of the economic recovery plan [ see p. 37523 ] . |
| 51 | The third National Government followed upon the resignation of the Liberal ministers and of the free trader , Snowden , in September 1932 , after which it became little more than a Conservative government , with the adhesion of a few ex-Labour and Liberal politicians , all owing their seats to an electoral pact with the Conservatives . |
| 52 | As Rene Padilla cautions , ‘ To speak of the Kingdom of God is to speak of the purpose of God , of which the empirical church is little more than a pale reflection ’ ( Padilla 1975:43 ) . |
| 53 | The restoration of contemporary art is little more than a childish effort to arrest artistic expression at its moment of birth a mistaken longing for eternal youth . |
| 54 | The strongest contender is the overjacket or car coat , which is little more than a sophisticated donkey jacket . |
| 55 | A one-way outsourcing arrangement , such as General Motors ' purchases of cars and components from Daewoo in South Korea , is little more than a sophisticated version of familiar NFI agreements : they offer the supplier the opportunity to gain value-creating activities and obviate the buyer 's need to invest . |
| 56 | Their need for food is easily met and the food we grow for ourselves on agricultural land is little more than a readily-available bonus . |
| 57 | They constantly used interventionist language , but this often involved little more than a legislative declaration in favour of good , and they relied to an extraordinary degree on individual and voluntary effort . |
| 58 | At that time they were merely unwanted parasites and I was little more than a puzzled observer . |
| 59 | The fact that the Greens ' ‘ Europe of the Regions ’ is little more than a nostalgic fantasy and their economic policies might rapidly place even organic small-holders in the same income bracket as Third World peasants was not important . |
| 60 | Some did let it grow of course , but untold millions had little more than a short back & sides an extra 3 weeks on — if you see what I mean . |