Example sentences of "as [adj] more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , questions might feature as little more than conversational or rhetorical devices ; they might be more token than genuine ; they might be predominantly closed ; and they might lack cognitive challenge . |
| 2 | She was used to insolent treatment from fellow servants — for she had long learned that a companion , be she never so genteel , was regarded as little more than that . |
| 3 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 4 | When wireless communications become available for a wider range of portables , the prevalence of Notes and applications like it will go a long way towards tying into networks PCs that are being under-utilised as little more than personal information managers . |
| 5 | It sees them as little more than rural ghettoes designed by previous hated white regimes to keep blacks and whites apart . |
| 6 | Hospitals are developing computer systems which are often not compatible with one another and are being used as little more than expensive word processors . |
| 7 | Indeed , iconoclasm has frequently been portrayed as little more than mindless vandalism perpetrated by Philistine bigots . |
| 8 | Bessey was sceptical of the whole approach as little more than revived natural history , and , in order to convince him that scientific ecology was possible , Clements and Pound looked for a method of quantifying their studies . |
| 9 | This theory regards purring as little more than heavy breathing of the type humans sometimes indulge in when they are asleep — in other words , snoring . |
| 10 | I have scant evidence to suggest that the problem for incomers is seen as much more than this — there may be a threat to house prices on behalf of non-oil-related incomers ( who have no guarantees ) but oil-related workers seem to be assured-of recovering their costs if they decide to sell up . |
| 11 | Some Whigs were implicated in Jacobite activities , amongst them John Wildman , Charles Mordaunt ( third Earl of Monmouth ) , the Earls of Dorset and Shrewsbury , and the Duke of Bolton , although whether we should see their alleged intrigues as much more than fire-insurance Jacobitism is unclear . |