Example sentences of "little more than [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A goods transporter — little more than a metal platform hovering a few centimetres above the floor — edged through the doorway , with the sixth android at the controls . |
| 2 | Dean , an early influence on anyone of Jack 's age , had little more than a year left of his life and was in regular attendance in 1954 , which was also the year Marlon Brando made it very big indeed in another Kazan film , On the Waterfront . |
| 3 | Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians . |
| 4 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |
| 5 | Demand for advice is strongest amongst actual victims of computer misuse , where it is effectively little more than a damage limitation exercise . |
| 6 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The corridor he was facing was less than twenty ch'i long ; a narrow , dimly lit affair that was little more than a feeder tunnel to the maintenance hatch in the ceiling at its far end . |
| 11 | Indeed , ingenious CD-ROM publishers nowadays often regard it as little more than a development constraint to be accepted , designed out and disregarded . |
| 12 | This found that , without guidance , teachers gave what was little more than a reflexive response — all that the majority of primary school teachers appeared to wish to receive was more basic skills training . |
| 13 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio . |
| 18 | The certificate on form R190(SD) must be completed but this can be done at any time and amounts to little more than a claim procedure . |
| 19 | Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams described the meetings as ‘ little more than a PR exercise ’ . |
| 20 | For the first time the Labour Party — hitherto little more than a pressure group promoting immediate working-class interests in Parliament — was announcing a coherent and independent intervention in the debate on foreign policy . |
| 21 | The central character , the archetypal Englishman Jack Good , comes across as little more than a pantomime figure . |
| 22 | Little more than a rhythm section revolving around a Lynn Drum , they were Factory 's fairly successful attempt at New York chicness , and Factory desperately wanted to become an international concern . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In fact the land around this former beauty spot had become little more than a rubbish tip . |
| 25 | Built in 1540 as one of Henry VIII 's network of coastal defences , it is now little more than a rock pile . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 29 | The heat had sprung up quite suddenly : the change from late winter to high summer — six months of European weather — was compressed into little more than a Delhi fortnight . |
| 30 | ‘ Little more than a coral atoll . |