Example sentences of "with [adj] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three hours of talks in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Yitsak Shamir and Foreign Minister David Levy , he came away with little more that a promise of more talks about the plight of the Palestinians . |
| 2 | Without this we are left with little more than the old rather ‘ Whiggish ’ account of how reasonable men gradually came to perceive women 's ills . |
| 3 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 4 | Shabby brick apartments stretch for block after block , dotted with little more than the odd liquor store , fried-chicken shack and cheque-cashing shop , well buttoned up with wire mesh and bullet-proof glass . |
| 5 | However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs . |
| 6 | He left school with little more than basic education , then struggled to earn a living as a cattle mart dealer and haulage contractor before going into politics full time . |
| 7 | With little more than a few snorts and grunts , the lumbering animals were coaxed down the ramp . |
| 8 | Coming to the Elbow , where the runners veer right-handed off the main course towards the line with little more than a furlong to go , Pitman gave his mount a smack down the right-hand side . |
| 9 | At one extreme ( for instance , when grass-letting ) you can get by with little more than the dwelling house : at the other ( on an intensively-run livestock farm ) special buildings are essential . |
| 10 | And , in the end , unless we challenge our assumptions , we may end up with little more than a large collection of inwardlooking occupational ethnographies between which the connections still remained to be demonstrated . |
| 11 | In contrast , the smaller and faster stunters with higher sail loading can be pirouetted over a designated spot and dropped onto their tails with little more than a quick lunge forwards by the flyer . |
| 12 | By contrast , his present legislation is expected to sail through with little more than some scattered shots from the Parti Québécois . |
| 13 | Apple Computer Inc has been left with little more than a garbage can in its protracted suit against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co alleging that Windows infringes its copyright in the Macintosh user interface . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1953 Antenor 's eighteen-year-old daughter , Maria Isabel , met and fell in love with James Goldsmith ( then the son of a hotel manager with little more than a taste for gambling and various romantic exploits to recommend him ) , and informed her father that she wished to marry him . |
| 16 | A line on the Pirámide Blanca had drawn our eye , and armed with little more than our desire to do so , we climbed it . |
| 17 | For such a one to throw up his job , sell his house and come to Britain with little more than the proceeds of sale in his pocket , in order to start his own business from scratch in an unfamiliar environment , would seem , the height of folly . |
| 18 | ( Papineau , 1985a ) I shall content myself with little more than some comments . |
| 19 | All these small invertebrates — flying insects trapped in webs by spiders , larvae concealed in bark picked out by woodpeckers , molluscs hidden in mud gathered by wading birds , termites licked up by anteaters — all are harvested with little more than the effort expended by those animals that sip nectar and munch pollen , or gather fruit and chew leaves . |
| 20 | The frailty of such buildings is indicated in William Godwin 's novel , Caleb Williams ( 1794 ) , for Mr Falkland seems to be able to demolish a cottage with little more than his bare hands in order to prevent a fire from spreading . |
| 21 | People occurred along the way and some would be talked to , questioned , while some were passed by with little more than a cursory glance . |
| 22 | Conversely the rush to the alluvial deposits of the Klondike in 1896 was carried out by prospectors with little more than shovels and pans . |
| 23 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 24 | These tended to portray him as being concerned with little more than his own power . |
| 25 | The pictures showed various angles of a small room that was furnished with little more than a big couch , a hi-fi and a table of drinks . |
| 26 | In short , life had really left him with little more than a reputation and a network of scars . |
| 27 | The talks ended with little more than an agreement to hold a third round in Norway in early 1993 . |
| 28 | He had driven her half out of her mind with little more than a few heated kisses , and the humiliation of knowing just how much she 'd wanted him burned into her . |
| 29 | She 's now left with little more than photographs to bring back memories of her late husband . |
| 30 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |