Example sentences of "little more than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm certainly prepared to admit that from the point of view of erm evolution , I too am er little more than a biodegradable package er for my genes , because , after all , if natural selection really were about fitness and perfecting the organisms , in terms of making the organism more perfect , more fit , more survivable , why do n't we live forever , or , or almost forever ? |
| 2 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 3 | The result is that , in international terms , where once it was the paradigm , Britain is now little more than a jaded footnote . |
| 4 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |
| 5 | It 's all sturdy and dense and impressively intense , but it amounts to little more than a grumpy grumble from the arty side of town . |
| 6 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 7 | I returned to his caravan the following afternoon after school bearing my load , which was by then little more than a dusty stain on the inside of a beaker . |
| 8 | Risking the loss of her usual cool dignity , and wearing little more than a feather-trimmed tutu and high heels , Linda was filmed clinging to the building and edging along it before plunging , screaming , to the ground . |
| 9 | The policy was based on little more than a vague belief in the large potential for economies of scale and an unquenchable faith among politicians that government agencies could successfully meet short-term political demands — particularly in respect of regional unemployment — in combination with longer-term goals of greater efficiency and higher industrial growth . |
| 10 | Though David Newnham , in the Guardian ( 24 July 1990 ) , calls the film " post- modernism : the movie " , Scott 's version is little more than a violent adventure story . |
| 11 | The Harpies ' cave is little more than a smelly hollow in the side of the hill , and contains nothing of interest , save for old bones from the Harpies ' victims . |
| 12 | A short distance further on , Julius turned off on to what was little more than a narrow track . |
| 13 | The stream was little more than a frozen marsh , pierced by tufts of blackened grass . |
| 14 | In its time , Gosstandard was regarded by most western vendors as little more than a pseudo tax on western suppliers . |
| 15 | If it maintains its present determination to keep little more than a naval force in the region , it will have to convince others ( the Egyptians ? |
| 16 | Even the agitations of the women 's movement would have warranted little more than a raised eyebrow from a lass in a Salvation Army bonnet that had to be strong enough to protect the head of the wearer from brick bats and other missiles . |
| 17 | Little more than a general impression can be given of the state of music in the churches outside Great Britain . |
| 18 | The house was then little more than a pleasant dwelling , but the position was perfect . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Twenty-four hours before , Nicola Sharpe was little more than a bloody corpse , a name , a glossy image on a television screen . |
| 21 | However , it is only fair to add that , in this case , the surviving windmill structure was little more than a ruinous stone stump before conversion work began ( Plate 41 ) . |
| 22 | Grand Isle is a precarious headland , little more than a sandy breakwater , a mile across and less in some places . |
| 23 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 24 | The Irish Labour Party in Derry quickly collapsed , leaving McGonagle at the head of his own small Independent Labour group , which was little more than a personal election machine . |
| 25 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 26 | David Brand 's hip was weakening his strength as an old wound opened up after hours in the water , and now the canoe was little more than a tiny hulk . |
| 27 | However , there is a danger that the smoke could be little more than a pungent sign of burning fingers . |
| 28 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 29 | Since her return to England , her existence had been little more than a living nightmare . |
| 30 | By the end of a week she was little more than a living skeleton : her hand lay all day long in Jennifer 's , and from time to time she would open her eyes , staring pathetically up , with a mute pleading in her expression that no words of comfort or whispered prayers could dispel . |