Example sentences of "[adv] little more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand for advice is strongest amongst actual victims of computer misuse , where it is effectively little more than a damage limitation exercise . |
| 2 | For the first time the Labour Party — hitherto little more than a pressure group promoting immediate working-class interests in Parliament — was announcing a coherent and independent intervention in the debate on foreign policy . |
| 3 | And she 's still little more than a baby . |
| 4 | According to Ackroyd , Dickens never wrote about sex because it ‘ renders people all alike , while the whole momentum of Dickens ’ fiction is towards uniqueness and peculiarity ’ — a clever theory , certainly , but still little more than a theory . |
| 5 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 6 | Here the Dwarfs of antiquity had built their gate , once a vast and impregnable fortress but now little more than a pile of stone through which the road still led . |
| 7 | He had been moving heaven and earth to gain what was now little more than a pittance , in the light of what he had unexpectedly inherited . |
| 8 | Built in 1540 as one of Henry VIII 's network of coastal defences , it is now little more than a rock pile . |
| 9 | Levitt smiled polite agreement , no more ; he was privately jealous of Lovitch whom he looked upon as little more than a huckster — though it was a well-stocked music shop that Lovitch owned . |
| 10 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 11 | Indeed , ingenious CD-ROM publishers nowadays often regard it as little more than a development constraint to be accepted , designed out and disregarded . |
| 12 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 13 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 14 | Today the Chelt is regarded as little more than a nuisance , its former importance long forgotten . |
| 15 | This one was bodged together from old planks and doors from wrecked houses , intended as little more than a defence in court for the demolition company when some child got through and broke his neck amongst the rubble . |
| 16 | Eleven months later , the indictment of two Libyans for the mass murder of 270 people at Lockerbie struck most Americans as little more than a formality , giving practical effect to what they — ; and most of the media — already thought they knew . |
| 17 | The Kuwait embassy in Jordan described the withdrawal as little more than a manoeuvre to disguise the theft of Kuwaiti military equipment . |
| 18 | Her voice came out as little more than a croak , sounding hollow , afraid . |
| 19 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 20 | He really did think of her as little more than a tramp . |
| 21 | Hitherto she had experienced the unruly masculine spirit inside her soul as little more than a matter for jocular asides or occasional remorse to see it bound like Pedro into mischief ; but notice had now been served . |
| 22 | In that light , and with reggae still regarded as little more than a novelty by the mainstream music business , Shabba 's ambition can only be applauded . |
| 23 | The central character , the archetypal Englishman Jack Good , comes across as little more than a pantomime figure . |
| 24 | This presented a sizeable engineering problem : although INOC managed to find a solution , it was really little more than a stopgap and the long-term answer proved to be the negotiation of an arrangement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 25 | The volume is really little more than a set of expanded notes ; but what it lacks in inspiration on that score , it more than makes up by its sheer usefulness , not least as an examination primer . |
| 26 | This acceptance of ‘ for better or for worse ’ was rather easier before medical science made hope glow eternally , even if the flame is often little more than a flicker . |
| 27 | In many cases the foundries and forges were widely separated , even where commonly owned ; the sites were often little more than a combination of untidy wooden huts with the occasional brick emplacement . |
| 28 | And the creature is surely little more than a child . |
| 29 | In this he was to be sadly mistaken , and the collapse of his position in the face of what was initially little more than a putsch organized by the queen shows how shallowly based his authority was , resting on fear and coercion rather than genuine loyalty . |
| 30 | The musical follows Chaplin 's career from the time , when little more than a child , he appeared on the stage at an Aldershot theatre in 1894 when his mother — a music hall artist — lost her voice , until in 1972 the film industry recognised his tremendous creative work with the presentation of a Special Academy Award . |