Example sentences of "[is] [adj] more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 2 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 3 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 4 | The fact that the Greens ' ‘ Europe of the Regions ’ is little more than a nostalgic fantasy and their economic policies might rapidly place even organic small-holders in the same income bracket as Third World peasants was not important . |
| 5 | Resort to such concepts as ‘ common sense ’ and ‘ knowledge of human nature ’ , is little more than a veiled admission that no satisfactory criteria have been found . |
| 6 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
| 7 | It is certainly the case that urban areas such as inner Liverpool would benefit from private sector involvement and a stronger economic base but as Barnekov , Boyle and Rich ( 1989 ) point out this is little more than a truism . |
| 8 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 9 | Their need for food is easily met and the food we grow for ourselves on agricultural land is little more than a readily-available bonus . |
| 10 | The pickups and scratchplate look familiar , of course , but this is little more than a tip of the cap in the direction of Fender . |
| 11 | Even the much-lauded Ibanez RG series is little more than a go-faster Strat in the final analysis . |
| 12 | However , the versatile EQ and the additional power of the bass boost make it easy to fill out the sound , and a smooth , mellow tone is little more than a brief twiddle away . |
| 13 | As Rene Padilla cautions , ‘ To speak of the Kingdom of God is to speak of the purpose of God , of which the empirical church is little more than a pale reflection ’ ( Padilla 1975:43 ) . |
| 14 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 15 | So the Macho Man is where my money is — even if he is little more than a heap of flesh and bone . ’ |
| 16 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 17 | The Harpies ' cave is little more than a smelly hollow in the side of the hill , and contains nothing of interest , save for old bones from the Harpies ' victims . |
| 18 | We circled round the island , which is little more than a circular shingle bar with a lagoon in the middle . |
| 19 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 20 | The restoration of contemporary art is little more than a childish effort to arrest artistic expression at its moment of birth a mistaken longing for eternal youth . |
| 21 | A one-way outsourcing arrangement , such as General Motors ' purchases of cars and components from Daewoo in South Korea , is little more than a sophisticated version of familiar NFI agreements : they offer the supplier the opportunity to gain value-creating activities and obviate the buyer 's need to invest . |
| 22 | Ermine moths , for example , economise by constructing a cocoon that is little more than a lattice . |
| 23 | The strongest contender is the overjacket or car coat , which is little more than a sophisticated donkey jacket . |
| 24 | That is why it is so terrible that what we offer , by and large , is a limited liability Christianity which is little more than a modern social convenience and more convenient to the white man than the black . |
| 25 | The tenant 's adviser should be on his guard against such a provision since it is little more than a trap for the tenant , particularly since the figure specified by the landlord need not be a bona fide and genuine pre-estimate of the market rent ( Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd ( 1980 ) 257 EG 489 ) . |
| 26 | When the practical rules applicable to sale and exchange are interchangeable , to distinguish between them is little more than a scholastic exercise . |
| 27 | Though David Newnham , in the Guardian ( 24 July 1990 ) , calls the film " post- modernism : the movie " , Scott 's version is little more than a violent adventure story . |
| 28 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
| 29 | In the middle of combat , one is little more than a wave in the sea … a stroke of the brush lost in the painting … |
| 30 | The increasing use of local area networks , where the PC is little more than an access terminal and important data is stored on a central file server , is also changing buying habits . |