Example sentences of "[verb] little more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A settlement was reached in 1972 , but in the 1980s , as the devolution of power to the south became little more than a façade and the economic situation deteriorated , the separatist movement re-emerged . |
| 2 | Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Collaborative change , with negotiation between professional groups and the state , may be the best way forward , but without strong government control it risks becoming little more than a tinkering with the existing system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | $800 for Solaris 2.0-on-Sparc sounds expensive compared to USL 's $350 for Unix SVR4.2 ( Destiny ) , but SunSoft claims such a price would buy little more than a kernel from USL , and is virtually useless in such form . |
| 7 | Instead of government-rigged prices , they want little more than a reaffirmation of existing anti-dumping rules . |
| 8 | The provisions the Committee recommend for inclusion involve little more than a restatement of the existing common law position : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the war progresses , causing little more than a headache over the shortage of petrol ( p.66 ) . |
| 14 | An inexpensive pond heater will solve the problem — and cost little more than a lightbulb to run . |
| 15 | And finally , there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle . |
| 16 | Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations . |
| 17 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |
| 18 | Of course the apparent benefits to the region are offset by the inevitable losses in jobs and the suspicion that in years , perhaps months , the company will not be able to sustain two major broadcasting centres and that Newcastle will become little more than a satellite of Leeds . |
| 19 | And it occurs so easily — almost passively — requiring little more than a relinquishing of the effort of emulation , the erasure of ‘ to be like ’ and the surrender to what remains : ‘ I desire … you ’ ; thus : ‘ I desire ( to be like ) you ’ . |
| 20 | Next to Assad 's Syria , Colonel Gaddafi 's Libya had become little more than a refuge for Palestinian extremists , a useful quartermaster s supply depot for arms and explosives , and a convenient whipping boy for Western governments anxious to be seen taking a strong line on terrorism without risking their strategic interests in the Middle East . |
| 21 | In fact the land around this former beauty spot had become little more than a rubbish tip . |
| 22 | The dental remains indicate little more than a dependence on a hard-fruit diet , and there may have been several species with this inclination . |
| 23 | Behind these it requires little more than a bag . |
| 24 | Such abuses were seldom reported , thorough investigations were rarely held , and " the few perpetrators disciplined or prosecuted usually get little more than a slap on the wrist and most know they can get away with it unchallenged " . |
| 25 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 26 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 27 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | But the idea of true integration — that is , a normal university post — new seems little more than a pipedream . |
| 30 | But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio . |