Example sentences of "[be] [det] more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The distinction , however , is little more than skin deep . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | By anybody 's calculations that is much more than inflation and allows a tremendous amount of growth — and growth there has been . |
9 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
10 | Design is much more than problem solving . |
11 | Religious masterpieces such as the Messiah continue to exercise a fascination which is much more than enjoyment of good tunes . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | This is much more than sociologist 's simplification ; it seems to be deeply rooted in the mind of the ordinary British citizen . " |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The court was told that the dog was so emaciated that it was little more than skin and bone . |
17 | But much of that was little more than Lobby gossip . |
18 | 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 . |