Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand for advice is strongest amongst actual victims of computer misuse , where it is effectively little more than a damage limitation exercise . |
| 2 | For the first time the Labour Party — hitherto little more than a pressure group promoting immediate working-class interests in Parliament — was announcing a coherent and independent intervention in the debate on foreign policy . |
| 3 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 4 | One of the things that makes his account so useful — so much more than the anecdotal triviality of which he is so carelessly accused — is his ability to compare and contrast this informal repair work with the formal structures of explicit legal process . |
| 5 | Well it the land would cost so much more than the conserv I do n't know if I want to spend so much money here , I 'd rather |
| 6 | This is obviously much less than the comparable figure of half a billion , which is the factor by which the histone H4 gene after natural selection is more accurate than a typical secretary ; but it is still a very impressive figure . |
| 7 | And Edwards ' ten-try haul is only one less than the Rugby League record set by George West for Hull KR against Brookland in 1905 . |
| 8 | The most dynamic Green party in Europe is undoubtedly Die Grünen , which took 8.3 per cent of the vote in the 1987 West German federal elections and won 42 seats , only four fewer than the ruling Christian Democrats ' coalition partners , the Free Democrats . |
| 9 | Despite its recent problems , the LDP won 46 per cent of the vote and took 275 of the 512 seats , only 20 fewer than the party had controlled in the outgoing Diet . |
| 10 | The rest of the human was normally little more than the wrong end of a pair of nostrils , a long way up . |
| 11 | You should then focus on one academic session , normally much less than a full twelve-month period . |
| 12 | It told readers : ‘ The couple were no longer any more than a cracked facade . |
| 13 | Fullback and captain Mark Wyatt , who 29 caps in 10 years is just two fewer than the Canadian record set by lock Ro Hindson between 1973 and 1990 , was not the only one to retire after the World Cup . |
| 14 | According to Ackroyd , Dickens never wrote about sex because it ‘ renders people all alike , while the whole momentum of Dickens ’ fiction is towards uniqueness and peculiarity ’ — a clever theory , certainly , but still little more than a theory . |
| 15 | And she 's still little more than a baby . |
| 16 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 17 | The result is that , in international terms , where once it was the paradigm , Britain is now little more than a jaded footnote . |
| 18 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 19 | Here the Dwarfs of antiquity had built their gate , once a vast and impregnable fortress but now little more than a pile of stone through which the road still led . |
| 20 | Built in 1540 as one of Henry VIII 's network of coastal defences , it is now little more than a rock pile . |
| 21 | He had been moving heaven and earth to gain what was now little more than a pittance , in the light of what he had unexpectedly inherited . |
| 22 | He wandered towards the old harbour , now little more than a quiet backwater . |
| 23 | Although there was now little more than an hour to go , the actual moment when the lights would go out remained stubbornly remote . |
| 24 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 25 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 26 | The identification of lust with ‘ brown girls ’ probably had no racial connotations in that innocently discriminatory age ; but the scenes towards the end where the Witch tries to capture John with her wiles do leave the disconcerting impression that Lewis thought of Christianity as little more than a good ‘ cure ’ for lust . |
| 27 | Today the Chelt is regarded as little more than a nuisance , its former importance long forgotten . |
| 28 | In that light , and with reggae still regarded as little more than a novelty by the mainstream music business , Shabba 's ambition can only be applauded . |
| 29 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 30 | It is purely a prohibition on use — not on possession — and in view of the reservations made by states parties it can be viewed as little more than a ‘ no first use ’ pact . |