Example sentences of "[noun] [is] little more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
| 4 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even the much-lauded Ibanez RG series is little more than a go-faster Strat in the final analysis . |