Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] little more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speech consisted of little more than bullish assertions of the underlying dynamism and strength of the British economy . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The early torch consisted of little more than impregnated rushes twisted about each other . |
| 4 | he had to share a bathroom with the four other tenants on the floor , and the room itself consisted of little more than a single bed pushed up against the wall to one side of the room , a wood-wormed wardrobe and a single gas ring for cooking . |
| 5 | The Low Attainers in Mathematics Project ( LAMP ) and the Raising Achievement in Mathematics Project ( RAMP ) found that the mathematical diet for low-attaining pupils often consisted of little more than basic arithmetic presented in simple step by step learning sequences and repeated frequently . |
| 6 | Schools were expected to make sense of ideas which had not always been thought through fully , and to implement practices whose justification frequently consisted of little more than unsubstantiated assertion . |
| 7 | Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Saggers escaped with little more than a broken elbow and a neck injury after falling from the 22nd floor of flats in Salford , Greater Manchester , on Thursday night . |
| 8 | ‘ You — you want me to — to live with you , Felipe ? ’ she asked in little more than a whisper . |
| 9 | For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers . |
| 10 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 11 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 12 | Whatever Isabella 's private intentions may have been , the deposition of the king had so far formed no part of her publicly declared programme , which amounted to little more than the removal of the Despensers . |
| 13 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 14 | The sharpest criticism levelled was that the collection amounted to little more than a reshuffling . |
| 15 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 16 | There was general agreement that current initiatives to meet those problems were ineffective , that there was little consultation with the people of West Belfast and that frequently they amounted to little more than cosmetic exercises . |
| 17 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 18 | Also the translation process amounted to little more than looking up words in bi-lingual dictionaries . |
| 19 | His well-meaning attempt at being nice to Black Britons amounted to little more than the recital of a catalogue of sporting achievement . |
| 20 | Another writer has argued that , apart from the period of financial crisis in the immediate aftermath of the war , government control amounted to little more than the application of Keynesian nostrums and wartime controls rather than the application of thoroughgoing plans for the reconstruction of industry . |
| 21 | Extended development of heads and others has in the past amounted to little more than the agglomeration of courses relating to specific short-term issues . |
| 22 | The front-page story lacked most of the details with which Tracey had supplied her , and amounted to little more than a rewritten version of the PA copy she had seen . |
| 23 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 24 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 25 | As the hours wore on , the sun became increasing hot , and the wind died to little more than a murmur . |
| 26 | She spoke in little more than a whisper : ‘ Is it possible to speak to Comrade Levkovich ? |
| 27 | But gradually his terror of metal stairways subsided to little more than ordinary fear . |