Example sentences of "was [det] [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 3 | From my childhood days it was little more than a map , a puzzling weaver , a many tailed whip in the hands of the north wind . |
| 4 | After England 's winter successes , a Test series win in New Zealand and runners-up to Pakistan in the World Cup , the announcement was little more than a formality . |
| 5 | The only item of business , the election of the Khashort space of time that it was clear to everyone that it was little more than a formality . |
| 6 | The reception room was little more than a hall . |
| 7 | At the age of 71 , he 's written the definitive book on Brize Norton which was little more than a field when he joined the RAF 53 years ago . |
| 8 | The first stage of the scaffolding was little more than a foot above his head . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under the Soviet system , it was little more than a bureaucracy to collect personal savings for which there was no other legal outlet . |
| 11 | The utilization of established or collaborationist governments , as in Thailand or the Philippines , was little more than a façade for Japanese rule . |
| 12 | As you say , I was little more than a boy . |
| 13 | He was little more than a boy . |
| 14 | Private Eye was flourishing , and even advertising in It its discreet ‘ God Is Love ’ , ‘ Karl Marx ’ , and ‘ Marquis de Sade ’ T-shirts under the slogan ‘ Plug in turn on freak out with Private Eye ’ , but this was little more than a wobble in that paper 's progress — and a chance for a satirical quick buck . |
| 15 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 16 | In many ways the Council of Europe was little more than a continuation of the traditional format of cooperation , transcribed to a bigger stage , and could not itself move forward to a supranational or federalist future . |
| 17 | Lear 's participation transformed the work of Mrs Gould , which in the Himalayan Birds was little more than a continuation of eighteenth-century productions , into dynamic and expressive works of art . |
| 18 | She did n't even exist in the equation , since , as far as he was concerned , she was little more than a child . |
| 19 | ‘ And it 's not a fit place for a young girl to have a baby , ’ snapped McAllister , who had just seen that his patient was little more than a child , ‘ but she 's having one , all the same . |
| 20 | ‘ My mother died when I was little more than a child , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 21 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 22 | Yet the SLA document , excellent though it was , was little more than a description , sensitively written , of what school librarianship had aspired towards since the SLA was first formed ; audio-visual resources received a polite page and a quarter , and there were two references to curriculum change . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it was little more than a hamlet : a fine but small Norman church , an inn , a few houses and cottages and in the distance , farm buildings . |
| 25 | ‘ Today , ’ Manescu responded , and closed his lips in a tight line which was little more than a gash in the brown hawk-like face . |
| 26 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 27 | The way to the front door was of long , unevenly sunken slabs of concrete so that the path was little more than a series of stepping stones . |
| 28 | Gradually , she found herself being turned into something between a useful servant and a source of relief ; a person who was little more than a housekeeper and temporary mistress . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | It was little more than a house , really , with one lounge filled with basketwork chairs and with tables littered with old magazines . |