Example sentences of "is [det] [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So the Macho Man is where my money is — even if he is little more than a heap of flesh and bone . ’ |
2 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
3 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
4 | Ermine moths , for example , economise by constructing a cocoon that is little more than a lattice . |
5 | In the middle of combat , one is little more than a wave in the sea … a stroke of the brush lost in the painting … |
6 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
7 | The pickups and scratchplate look familiar , of course , but this is little more than a tip of the cap in the direction of Fender . |
8 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
9 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
10 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
11 | It is certainly the case that urban areas such as inner Liverpool would benefit from private sector involvement and a stronger economic base but as Barnekov , Boyle and Rich ( 1989 ) point out this is little more than a truism . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
14 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
15 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
16 | As Hadrian 's villa is much more than a villa , so Diocletian 's palace is more like a town and is also designed as a fortress . |
17 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
18 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
19 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
20 | Secondly , Foucault argues that the panopticon is much more than a building . |
21 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
22 | A dojo is much more than a place where a karateka ( one who practises karate ) trains . |
23 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
24 | Meeting special educational needs in ordinary schools is much more than a process of opening school doors to admit children previously placed in special schools . |
25 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
26 | This work with great and powerful climaxes in first and last movements ; with a scherzo as light as thistledown , a truly poetic slow movement and tremendous pageantry in the finale is much more than a series of vignettes of a great city . |
27 | What we have now is much more than a game : an exciting story to which we do not know the end ; and a visual image which will lead us to an exciting starting point for a drama , an image which we know has engaged the children . |
28 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
29 | 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 . |