Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] more [subord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the charge that the enormous number of local agreements can be cited as evidence of national agreements acting as little more than guidelines , the answer is given that local agreements acted as a form of pace-setting for subsequent national agreements , and that this transfer mechanism can be incorporated into wage-determination models [ Prest and Coppock , 1978 ] . |
| 2 | In such a case , the pedagogical grammar may consist of little more than exercises and model conversations , without translations of the phrases taught , etc . |
| 3 | Most sites do not produce remains that can be readily understood by casual visitors , and they often consist of little more than holes in the ground showing where posts once formed part of a timber building , pits dug for various purposes , or ditches for drainage , boundaries and defence . |
| 4 | She 's now left with little more than photographs to bring back memories of her late husband . |
| 5 | Conversely the rush to the alluvial deposits of the Klondike in 1896 was carried out by prospectors with little more than shovels and pans . |
| 6 | History can not be done away with any more than metaphysics : but its conditions of impossibility are also necessarily its conditions of possibility . |
| 7 | Needless to say , an attempt to destroy a country 's ecosystem takes a toll in much more than trees and reedbeds , and the fact that Vietnam has any wildlife left at all may seem remarkable . |
| 8 | He wrote : " All the occurrences of Jurassic formations … amount to little more than relics of marginal lappings of the sea around the edges of the continents ; the sole exception being the Tethys " . |
| 9 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 10 | Methods for analysing qualitative data — transcripts of interviews , verbal protocols , ethnographic field notes and the like — have until recently had to rely on little more than scissors , a copier and piles of paper . |
| 11 | A.G. Kennedy , its most recent editor , has noted that " apart from chs. 25 – 7 there is nothing that amounts to much more than injunctions that justice should be done and that every man should do his duty " . |