Example sentences of "[vb base] little more [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all these agreements remain little more than pious hopes , even when , as in the case of Anna Wolska , President Walesa himself attempted to translate them into action . |
| 2 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 3 | Despite the massive exodus from the major cities in the 1970s , in 1981 more than three-fifths ( 62.6 per cent ) of Britain 's 54.3 million people were still living in twenty ‘ metropolitan regions ’ which occupy little more than one-fifth of the country 's land area . |
| 4 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 5 | Push towards the limits of the tyres ' adhesion , though , and you provoke little more than mild understeer and a screech of protest from the Continental Sport Contact 195/50 VR15 rubber . |
| 6 | Some , such as froghoppers ( ‘ cuckoo spit ’ ) and flea beetles , cause little more than cosmetic damage and will be tolerated by healthy plants . |
| 7 | Perhaps he is optimistic in assuming that the students he has targeted will have much in the way of explicit grammatical knowledge ; in my experience , first-year British undergraduates have little more than sketchy notions of what nouns and verbs are . |
| 8 | Noteworthy design features of the Swearingen SJ30 include a tiny , highly swept wing with powerful high-lift devices , small-diameter cabin and marked area-ruling around the engines , giving a max cruise of 0.77 Mach despite its low power — its Williams/R-R fanjets have little more than half the thrust of a Lear 31A 's engines . |