Example sentences of "little more than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B — indicate little more than the immediate place of work during the construction of the pavements of a single building . |
| 2 | In reality , little more than the faintest outlines of such a legislative model can be detected . |
| 3 | Shabby brick apartments stretch for block after block , dotted with little more than the odd liquor store , fried-chicken shack and cheque-cashing shop , well buttoned up with wire mesh and bullet-proof glass . |
| 4 | In larger tanks the fish will establish their own territories , and little more than the odd display will be seen . |
| 5 | However , by the time of the debate in the Supreme Soviet on May 13 these fears appeared to have faded : in the light of the introduction by most Western governments of tighter immigration procedures for Soviet citizens , Soviet officials estimated that the number seeking to emigrate would be around 500,000 annually , little more than the 454,000 who had been permitted to leave in 1990 . |
| 6 | Was he being indescribably presumptuous even to suppose that Sir Philip might consider allowing his only daughter to share her life with a man who could pay for little more than the bare necessities ? |
| 7 | The trade union rates so jealously guarded in the inter-war period by the Association became little more than the minimum wage of the 1950s , producing salaries insufficient to attract the ambitious tour operator and dynamic advertising manager and leading in turn to a failure to compete effectively . |
| 8 | In the shopping mall you can see these employees , working alone for little more than the minimum wage , surrounded by some of the world 's most sophisticated monitoring systems . |
| 9 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 10 | Until recently , the Aborigines have always been regarded as little more than the exceptional survivors of prehistoric man , a view based primarily on the materialistic aspects of their culture , its ‘ hardware ’ . |
| 11 | The rest of the human was normally little more than the wrong end of a pair of nostrils , a long way up . |
| 12 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 13 | Observers saw Mrs Thatcher 's comments as little more than the latest in a series of delaying tactics . |
| 14 | Cars such as the Vauxhall Cavalier SRi , Rover 416 GSi and Ford Sierra 2.0i Ghia are worth little more than the same model with a lower spec . |
| 15 | Without this we are left with little more than the old rather ‘ Whiggish ’ account of how reasonable men gradually came to perceive women 's ills . |
| 16 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 17 | ‘ Pride and dignity ’ appears to be barely different from conventional ambition/self-presentation/self-nurture , ultimately amounting to little more than the uncritical desire to participate in society on its own terms . |
| 18 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
| 19 | The hamlet consisted of little more than the substantially-built Adscombe Farm , three cottages , and a ruined medieval chapel , probably the original of the chapel in ‘ The Foster-Mother 's Tale ’ whose leaning wall was propped by a ‘ huge round beam ’ . |