Example sentences of "[be] little more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is tabloid film-making in which the protagonists are cardboard cut-outs , played by lookalike actors whose portrayals , however skilful , are doomed to be little more than glorified Mike Yarwood impersonations . |
| 2 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 3 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 4 | Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples . |
| 5 | A human life-span is but a blip on the screen of evolution , and the current sea-bird problems may be little more than that . |
| 6 | In the example given , the damages would be little more than nominal . |
| 7 | Locke rejects this , though his arguments against Descartes 's identification of body with extension tend to be little more than initial difficulties . |
| 8 | Sometimes it appears to be little more than this , as in the case of the temporary vogue for ‘ Occitania ’ in France in the 1970s , the shift of a number of able intellectuals of the Left to Scottish nationalism in the same decade and the preoccupation with what was claimed to be Valencian national identity in the early 1980s among left intellectuals of the Spanish Levante . |
| 9 | Experiment more with fresh herbs and spices — part of the modern passion for salt is little more than bored taste-buds ! |
| 10 | Heat it very gradually until it is little more than tepid . |
| 11 | It is at this stage that the contract is carefully examined , perhaps for the first time , and the company obtaining the software realizes , too late , that as far as it is concerned , the contract is little more than worthless and does not provide adequately for the situation . |
| 12 | Many students in Christian colleges have an idea of the difference which God makes that is little more than verbal . |
| 13 | It is less spectacular than many , there is little more than broken masonry , but though there are many more dramatic landscapes , there can be few so utterly Hellenic . |
| 14 | We should not be trying to create an image that school is little more than some form of elaborate and expensive ‘ Trivial pursuit ’ ( Sullivan 1988 ) . |
| 15 | As for the 40% match-fee fine placed upon Pakistan for their slow over rate , this is little more than half of technically should have been applied , but Mr Hunte made certain allowances . |
| 16 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 17 | Their appearance in the case-room while the men were absent was little more than symbolic . |
| 18 | Much of the content of such literary activity was little more than political pornography . |
| 19 | The weight of the water forced Golden Girl down , as Trent had planned , so that she was little more than awash . |
| 20 | When there was little more than half an inch left protruding from the frame he gripped it with thumb and forefinger and started to work it around . |
| 21 | Reuters fell 30p to 1,364p in the belief that ACT changes will reduce the scope for dividend increases , stores were generally easier on the absence of consumer incentives in the Budget , and the 0.2 per cent rise in retail sales between January and February , though welcome , was little more than expected . |
| 22 | Both sides , however , agreed that the use of statistical tests without a well-thought-out theory was little more than useless . |