Example sentences of "do little more than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them . |
| 2 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 3 | Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . |
| 4 | further , top management may do little more than pay lip-service to computing . |
| 5 | It was Eric 's turn next : his presenter appeared in jogging track suit , and false beard , and needed to do little more than puff heavily round the stage several times intoning ‘ no , not on the roof , no , not on the roof , to bring the house down , rousing laughter even from those who did not know that these were the mysterious words that the Warden had uttered in a loud cry when abruptly roused from slumber during a session of group therapy . |
| 6 | Western governments generally expressed sympathy for the Lithuanian cause and concern at Soviet military pressure and the economic blockade , and Prunskiene was received everywhere by heads of government , but these governments did little more than call for restraint by both sides and for negotiations . |
| 7 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |
| 8 | Second , the institutions of government , apart from the Council , did little more than process decisions made elsewhere . |
| 9 | Hewison 's contention is that the term ‘ postmodernism ’ does little more than signal modernism 's ending : let us than weep for all forms of reflective production , swept away , along with our sense of history , by the marriage of commerce and culture . |