Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 2 | Adeane 's function as private secretary appeared to be little more than the job of arranging the Prince 's schedule around polo and the children 's bath times . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Locke rejects this , though his arguments against Descartes 's identification of body with extension tend to be little more than initial difficulties . |
| 5 | Either way it is likely , as Palmerston said of a projected coalition with Disraeli in 1857 , to be little more than ‘ the accident and fortuitous concurrence of atoms ’ . |
| 6 | But the chapter , entitled ‘ A computer model of music recognition ’ — whose title whetted my appetite considerably — proved to be little more than a pious hope that studying the way a computer can be programmed to recognise music might help to understand the way the human brain does it . |
| 7 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 8 | The fighting which followed took place spasmodically as the moon emerged from behind a cloud or one side fired at the other 's musket flashes and the Battle of Clifton turned out to be little more than a skirmish . |
| 9 | Despite the presence of sound Trinomic cushioning and stability technology in the two main Disc shoes , it is hard to believe runners will shell out hefty sums for a central concept which appears to be little more than a glorified lacing system . |
| 10 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 13 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 14 | In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders . |
| 15 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 16 | Even though Jones eventually fell , mis-hooking Pringle just before tea , after 3½ hours of defiance , the last session looked set to be little more than batting practice for the home side . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Indeed , a large part of his public life and known history would seem to be little more than an embodiment and re-enactment of the prophecies . |
| 20 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 21 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 22 | She did not trust him either , considering him to be little more than a teller of comforting lies , her mother 's doctor oozing reassurance from every pore . |
| 23 | The leader of the county council , Tony Hart , is reported as saying : ’ at the moment it appears to be little more than a line on the map , and a pretty thick and crude one . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So while school or college-leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort . |
| 26 | BILL Clinton ruffled feathers over the thorny issue of American policy on Ulster during his campaign but now he is safely in the White House many promises may turn out to be little more than electioneering . |
| 27 | As it was , our retreat turned out to be much more than that — it was a warm experience where we shared thoughts and feelings with others , and where our static everyday lives were challenged . |
| 28 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 29 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 30 | In practice , few of the conceptual embellishments of the idea of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ proved to be any more than occasional glimpses of what an ideal press ought to be like . |