Example sentences of "be [det] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 2 | However , there is a danger that the smoke could be little more than a pungent sign of burning fingers . |
| 3 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 4 | That may be little more than a technicality because Mr Duggan added that Chelsea have submitted outline proposals to Cabra and their advisers which may resolve the outstanding issues . |
| 5 | The poem would then be little more than a series of distortions , ‘ propaganda for the victors ’ . |
| 6 | At the lower end of the scale , this might be little more than a garden allotment worked in spare time to supplement the income from a full-time job . |
| 7 | But the chapter , entitled ‘ A computer model of music recognition ’ — whose title whetted my appetite considerably — proved to be little more than a pious hope that studying the way a computer can be programmed to recognise music might help to understand the way the human brain does it . |
| 8 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 9 | ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The fighting which followed took place spasmodically as the moon emerged from behind a cloud or one side fired at the other 's musket flashes and the Battle of Clifton turned out to be little more than a skirmish . |
| 11 | Despite the presence of sound Trinomic cushioning and stability technology in the two main Disc shoes , it is hard to believe runners will shell out hefty sums for a central concept which appears to be little more than a glorified lacing system . |
| 12 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |
| 13 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 14 | In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders . |
| 15 | Given the wide diversity of views within the Council about the nature of economic cooperation , let alone its political implications , it was not surprising that if anything positive was to come from the idea , it would be little more than a minimalist option . |
| 16 | Someone is doubtless fiftieth in line , and still a potential monarch , but with no supermarkets to open or ships to name , the rights have run out and the potential succession will be little more than a talking point . |
| 17 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |
| 18 | A defensive tool need be little more than a pointed stick , or hands could pick and hurl rocks at the animal predators . |
| 19 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 20 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 21 | She did not trust him either , considering him to be little more than a teller of comforting lies , her mother 's doctor oozing reassurance from every pore . |
| 22 | The leader of the county council , Tony Hart , is reported as saying : ’ at the moment it appears to be little more than a line on the map , and a pretty thick and crude one . ’ |
| 23 | If the campaign goes as well as today 's Oxford launch , by the end of February the charity should be little more than a hop , skip and a jump away from its target . |
| 24 | If the campaign goes as well as today 's Oxford launch , by the end of February the charity should be little more than a hop , skip and a jump away from its target . |
| 25 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 26 | The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges , therefore , will be much more than a single delivery platform . |