Example sentences of "be little more than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will be physically smaller and able to fit into smaller clothes but you will still be flabby and unfit , or , if you overdo it , you will be little more than skin and bone . |
| 2 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 3 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 4 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 5 | I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness . |
| 6 | The distinction , however , is little more than skin deep . |
| 7 | That should be no barrier , according to Looking Right : ‘ What we must do here is to explain that the political side of things mainly involves what is little more than Party donkeywork . |
| 8 | The court was told that the dog was so emaciated that it was little more than skin and bone . |
| 9 | But much of that was little more than Lobby gossip . |
| 10 | The old idea of marketing , which in many cases was little more than selling , focused on making a better product that was easier to sell . |