Example sentences of "[vb pp] little more than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas CD-A discs really needed little more than a physical standard , CD-ROMs also had to address logical standards , defining the format for structuring data records , volumes and files . |
| 2 | Educationally disappointing and commercially disastrous , Domesday sold probably sold little more than a 1,000 units against a forecast of many times this figure . |
| 3 | The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines . |
| 4 | In truth , for the most part , town planning at the outbreak of the Second World War had become little more than a token regulatory hand , useful in developing areas , but of little consequence in the existing areas . |
| 5 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 6 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 7 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 8 | They constantly used interventionist language , but this often involved little more than a legislative declaration in favour of good , and they relied to an extraordinary degree on individual and voluntary effort . |
| 9 | Even the agitations of the women 's movement would have warranted little more than a raised eyebrow from a lass in a Salvation Army bonnet that had to be strong enough to protect the head of the wearer from brick bats and other missiles . |