Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For groups in this position the right to take part in politics represents little more than the right to whistle in the wind . |
| 2 | In the end , this is a book without a conclusion — despite its charts , its statistical tables and its thickets of notes , it offers little more than a collection of historical raw material . |
| 3 | It was once an important port , but now contains little more than a wharf , the use of which is also limited by the extremely wide range of the Severn Estuary tides . |
| 4 | Barbados , which even now has little more than a quarter of a million people , has led the way with a roll of honour of mind-boggling proportions . |
| 5 | Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians . |
| 6 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
| 7 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 8 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
| 9 | This is the point of view of one novice who discovered that diving offers much more than a free lunch , but should never be taken without tissues . |
| 10 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 11 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 12 | But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate . |
| 13 | Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two . |
| 14 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 15 | Behind these it requires little more than a bag . |
| 16 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 17 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 18 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 19 | Yet they also point to the conflict between feminism inside art history , which often seems little more than a maker of changing the gender of the artist as hero , and feminism as a more complex , multi-focused , or interdisciplinary project which utterly transforms the objects art history usually studies by refusing to treat them as simply ‘ works of art ’ created by ‘ artists ’ . |
| 20 | But the idea of true integration — that is , a normal university post — new seems little more than a pipedream . |
| 21 | So , it might be asked , why is it important to examine in detail what , after all , merits little more than a few paragraphs in conventional histories of education ? |
| 22 | This indicates little more than the lack of influence exerted by BASW and the SCA , but the real indictment of the profession is that the principles of social work and management have not been integrated . |
| 23 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
| 24 | ‘ Broad-band cable means much more than an increase in the number of TV channels , ’ he said . |
| 25 | But while the telephone itself remains little more than an instrument for reproducing speech and other sounds at a distance , over the last decade we have seen dramatic growth in the availability and use of computers , modems and fax to transmit documentary and computerised information over the telephone network . |
| 26 | Home becomes little more than a dormitory , an evening and weekend extension to the office . |
| 27 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |
| 28 | So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds . |
| 29 | Lengthier ones such as those in support of specific discovery are not suited and the standard part becomes little more than the top and tail . |
| 30 | In developed countries , the birth rate fluctuates much more than the death rate ( due to social and economic changes ) and is the major cause of difficulty in population projection . |