Example sentences of "be little more [subord] a " in BNC.

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1	In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment .
2	Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk .
3	‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like .
4	You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child .
5	You 're little more than a girl .
6	Many researchers considered MT to be an extension of the code breaking techniques developed during World War 2 , whereby foreign languages were little more than a complex coding of words and translation required merely the use of a bi-lingual dictionary .
7	An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 .
8	For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’
9	The words were little more than a whisper .
10	When news of a flourishing Swedish house scene began to break 18 months ago , it looked like being little more than a PR scam based around the fact that Neneh Cherry 's half-sister Titiyo could sing and came from Stockholm .
11	We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family .
12	The database is also obviously incomplete , being little more than a list of fields for you to fill in .
13	Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note .
14	Such a theory will find it hard to repudiate the accusation of being little more than a clever but patently transparent artifice .

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