Example sentences of "[det] more than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In larger tanks the fish will establish their own territories , and little more than the odd display will be seen . |
| 32 | However , by the time of the debate in the Supreme Soviet on May 13 these fears appeared to have faded : in the light of the introduction by most Western governments of tighter immigration procedures for Soviet citizens , Soviet officials estimated that the number seeking to emigrate would be around 500,000 annually , little more than the 454,000 who had been permitted to leave in 1990 . |
| 33 | Was he being indescribably presumptuous even to suppose that Sir Philip might consider allowing his only daughter to share her life with a man who could pay for little more than the bare necessities ? |
| 34 | The trade union rates so jealously guarded in the inter-war period by the Association became little more than the minimum wage of the 1950s , producing salaries insufficient to attract the ambitious tour operator and dynamic advertising manager and leading in turn to a failure to compete effectively . |
| 35 | In the shopping mall you can see these employees , working alone for little more than the minimum wage , surrounded by some of the world 's most sophisticated monitoring systems . |
| 36 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 37 | Until recently , the Aborigines have always been regarded as little more than the exceptional survivors of prehistoric man , a view based primarily on the materialistic aspects of their culture , its ‘ hardware ’ . |
| 38 | The rest of the human was normally little more than the wrong end of a pair of nostrils , a long way up . |
| 39 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 40 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 41 | Cars such as the Vauxhall Cavalier SRi , Rover 416 GSi and Ford Sierra 2.0i Ghia are worth little more than the same model with a lower spec . |
| 42 | Without this we are left with little more than the old rather ‘ Whiggish ’ account of how reasonable men gradually came to perceive women 's ills . |
| 43 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 44 | ‘ Pride and dignity ’ appears to be barely different from conventional ambition/self-presentation/self-nurture , ultimately amounting to little more than the uncritical desire to participate in society on its own terms . |
| 45 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
| 46 | The hamlet consisted of little more than the substantially-built Adscombe Farm , three cottages , and a ruined medieval chapel , probably the original of the chapel in ‘ The Foster-Mother 's Tale ’ whose leaning wall was propped by a ‘ huge round beam ’ . |
| 47 | Neither will it cost you any more than the normal variable scheme . |
| 48 | The blazer brigade does n't say anything about that now , any more than the Metropolitan Police will risk making fools of themselves again by arresting Christie for possession of a supposedly stolen car . |
| 49 | Weak European industries can not face global competition without support — any more than the weak economies of Central and Eastern Europe will be able to cope with immediate entry into the Single Market . |
| 50 | The author seizes on the chance , as he often does , to suggest a sensibility in his hero , the impetuous , extrovert Aubrey , but such moments are never allowed to become sentimental , any more than the frequent musical excursions of captain and doctor are offered as in any way exceptional . |
| 51 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 52 | Mrs Thatcher 's heart would not be in that approach , any more than the Labour Party has yet taken the need for high interest rates to its bosom . |
| 53 | Meanwhile , Rangers will find out this morning if Mark Hateley is to miss any more than the one game , against Marseille , that will be his automatic punishment for being sent off in the match with FC Brugge . |
| 54 | However , Kuhn insists that this state of affairs does not render the concept of paradigm untenable any more than the similar situation with respect to ‘ game ’ rules out legitimate use of that concept . |
| 55 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 56 | Rousseau was emphatic that the general interest of society was not the mere sum of individuals ' interests , any more than the general will was the mere sum of individual wills . |
| 57 | There is no need to hold that all human beings should always and only be approached using the interpretive action scheme , any more than the reverse claim makes sense if adhered to in all circumstances . |
| 58 | I 'm not sure of the exact figures but we have not declared any more than the 700 that we 've er announced in the last 12 months . |
| 59 | Between 1958/9 and 1979/80 it rose sharply ( in England from 36.1 per cent to 48.5 per cent ) , but this did not automatically mean more central control , any more than the subsequent fall by 1984/5 to 39.2 per cent meant increased local freedom ( all figures from Travers , 1986 , table app. 7 ) . |
| 60 | And I know I 'm not stupid , any more than the next person is . |