Example sentences of "was [det] [det] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 2 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 3 | Yet Pomgol was little more than a conglomerate made up of other relevant state departments . |
| 4 | Emigration to Australia or New Zealand , let alone the United States , which had its own extreme problems of crime and racial violence , was little more than a trickle . |
| 5 | However , it is only fair to add that , in this case , the surviving windmill structure was little more than a ruinous stone stump before conversion work began ( Plate 41 ) . |
| 6 | The warehouse had suffered considerably from the neglect associated with its low-grade use as a hay barn and was little more than a masonry shell devoid of weather-tight windows and doors when the work of conversion commenced . |
| 7 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 8 | From my childhood days it was little more than a map , a puzzling weaver , a many tailed whip in the hands of the north wind . |
| 9 | After England 's winter successes , a Test series win in New Zealand and runners-up to Pakistan in the World Cup , the announcement was little more than a formality . |
| 10 | The Irish Labour Party in Derry quickly collapsed , leaving McGonagle at the head of his own small Independent Labour group , which was little more than a personal election machine . |
| 11 | As she drew near the fence she saw that the poor struggling captive was little more than a baby in size , although it was covered with its first soft coat of wool . |
| 12 | At that time they were merely unwanted parasites and I was little more than a puzzled observer . |
| 13 | The stream was little more than a frozen marsh , pierced by tufts of blackened grass . |
| 14 | Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds , their lumbered heads straining in the wind . |
| 15 | Her voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 16 | David Brand 's hip was weakening his strength as an old wound opened up after hours in the water , and now the canoe was little more than a tiny hulk . |
| 17 | It seems , then , that the average undertaker was little more than a speculative cabinet-maker and joiner who , either by direct contact with the metalworking trades , or via such funeral houses as Richard Green 's , was able to buy in at wholesale all that was required for a funeral . |
| 18 | As you say , I was little more than a boy . |
| 19 | The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ . |
| 20 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 21 | The reception room was little more than a hall . |
| 22 | It was little more than a house , really , with one lounge filled with basketwork chairs and with tables littered with old magazines . |
| 23 | He was little more than a boy . |
| 24 | In reality , it was little more than a face-saving formula . |
| 25 | In many ways the Council of Europe was little more than a continuation of the traditional format of cooperation , transcribed to a bigger stage , and could not itself move forward to a supranational or federalist future . |
| 26 | ‘ Today , ’ Manescu responded , and closed his lips in a tight line which was little more than a gash in the brown hawk-like face . |
| 27 | Under the Soviet system , it was little more than a bureaucracy to collect personal savings for which there was no other legal outlet . |
| 28 | The organization lacked coherent leadership and purpose and was little more than a patriotic group with a foreign-sounding name . |
| 29 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 30 | The utilization of established or collaborationist governments , as in Thailand or the Philippines , was little more than a façade for Japanese rule . |