Example sentences of "[be] [det] [det] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 2 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
| 3 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 4 | The ‘ flak helpers ’ had been little more than children at the time of Hitler 's great ‘ triumphs ’ , and in the hail of bombs , the destruction , and the retreating armies , the remaining image of the Führer as the military genius bore scant relation to their daily experience of reality . |
| 5 | Northamptonshire paid £1,000 in coat-and-conduct money alone , though as an inland shire its expenses on fortification would have been much less than Norfolk 's . |
| 6 | You will be physically smaller and able to fit into smaller clothes but you will still be flabby and unfit , or , if you overdo it , you will be little more than skin and bone . |
| 7 | They had no grasp , those apes , of how close they lay to a state where the devouring beasts of Earth 's infancy would be little more than fleas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 10 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These basic requirements were not often met , and teachers were confronted with , and expected to adopt , ideas which might be little more than expressions of officially endorsed belief . |
| 13 | The output of the summing device will be much less than K. |
| 14 | I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness . |
| 15 | The distinction , however , is little more than skin deep . |
| 16 | That should be no barrier , according to Looking Right : ‘ What we must do here is to explain that the political side of things mainly involves what is little more than Party donkeywork . |
| 17 | By anybody 's calculations that is much more than inflation and allows a tremendous amount of growth — and growth there has been . |
| 18 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 19 | Design is much more than problem solving . |
| 20 | Religious masterpieces such as the Messiah continue to exercise a fascination which is much more than enjoyment of good tunes . |
| 21 | Listening is much more than hearing ; it is an active process whereby the listener attends exclusively to the speaker , not only to the words that he is speaking . |
| 22 | This is much more than sociologist 's simplification ; it seems to be deeply rooted in the mind of the ordinary British citizen . " |
| 23 | Dr ‘ Richards ’ There 's much more than medicine in it … we 're not general practitioners , we 're family doctors , which means you 're a family friend . |
| 24 | Whether anything has changed in the issues which divide the US and its European partners is no clearer after this encounter , and we are left with only the haziest idea of whether the mutual admiration is any more than skin deep . |
| 25 | The court was told that the dog was so emaciated that it was little more than skin and bone . |
| 26 | But much of that was little more than Lobby gossip . |
| 27 | The old idea of marketing , which in many cases was little more than selling , focused on making a better product that was easier to sell . |
| 28 | It was little more than Rangers deserved when they took the lead 10 minutes later when the impressive Sinton played a delightful one-two with Holloway before scoring with a rasping drive . |