Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] more [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the consolidated balance sheet is published for little more than completeness : it gives the net debit balances and net credit balances for the organization to be carried forward to the new financial year . |
| 2 | Enclosure turned small or fragmented holdings and commons suitable for little more than subsistence agriculture into consolidated holdings able to support the new farming and generate capital for improvement . |
| 3 | Many of the most apparently distinguished honours are a reward for little more than longevity or political servitude . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | In such a case , the pedagogical grammar may consist of little more than exercises and model conversations , without translations of the phrases taught , etc . |
| 6 | There were derisory calls of a similar kind from the crowd long before the eighth round on Thursday as the fighters went to their corners after another three minutes of little more than dancing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |
| 9 | Remarkably , a record of little more than mediocrity has already lifted Holyfield within one or two fights of eclipsing every man who 's ever laced on a glove in terms of financial reward . |
| 10 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 11 | Down 's people are capable of much more than people realise . |
| 12 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 13 | About 70 jobs have already been created , with the potential for 80 more once demand recovers and output reaches its full 1,500-bus capacity . |
| 14 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |
| 15 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 16 | She 's now left with little more than photographs to bring back memories of her late husband . |
| 17 | Conversely the rush to the alluvial deposits of the Klondike in 1896 was carried out by prospectors with little more than shovels and pans . |
| 18 | The oceans provide us with much more than pleasure for the diver and beautiful photographs for the photographer ; they also give us invaluable knowledge . |
| 19 | History can not be done away with any more than metaphysics : but its conditions of impossibility are also necessarily its conditions of possibility . |
| 20 | Abrasive cleaners : At their simplest these are the scouring powders formulated from little more than sand or feldspar , the aggregate and a small amount of chlorine release agent . |
| 21 | At first doctors believed he was suffering from little more than sunstroke . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | While the primary ethnographic accounts of life and character in such peaceful societies usually present multi-dimensional pictures of complex human beings , these pictures tend to become more and more one-dimensional as the material is employed in secondary and tertiary works , where the original complexity is often reduced to little more than caricature . |
| 24 | This model of socialism has involved some limited changes in economic ownership , but in practice has invariably amounted to little more than state direction of predominantly privately owned economic activity , and the maintenance of some minimum standards of social provision for all . |
| 25 | But , in terms of disability services , the choice available to us amounts to little more than Hobson 's choice . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 29 | So you end up taking a whole pile of clothes , most of which invariably amount to little more than ballast . |
| 30 | 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 . |