Example sentences of "little more than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the pubs which are passed off as ‘ historic ’ to the visitor and tourist prove to be only film-set facades on what are now little more than youthful amusement arcades or glorified fast-food cafes . |
| 2 | Schools were expected to make sense of ideas which had not always been thought through fully , and to implement practices whose justification frequently consisted of little more than unsubstantiated assertion . |
| 3 | On one level the sudden and unexpected friendship thrives on little more than mutual back-scratching . |
| 4 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 5 | Umberto Eco complains , ‘ Unfortunately , ‘ postmodern ’ … is applied today to anything the user happens to like ’ ( in Hutcheon 1988 : 42 ) : as he suggests , the term is increasingly used in the media to signify little more than vague approval of what is new and striking in contemporary culture . |
| 6 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 7 | Hostess work in some of the clubs involved little more than chiselling money out of tourists for fake champagne , and the money that changed hands for street assignations almost invariably led to an instant disappearance with no follow-through . |
| 8 | Hospitals are developing computer systems which are often not compatible with one another and are being used as little more than expensive word processors . |
| 9 | But gradually his terror of metal stairways subsided to little more than ordinary fear . |
| 10 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 11 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 12 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 13 | Today , there are more good lines than bad , and the choice amounts to little more than personal preference . |
| 14 | When wireless communications become available for a wider range of portables , the prevalence of Notes and applications like it will go a long way towards tying into networks PCs that are being under-utilised as little more than personal information managers . |
| 15 | Much of the content of such literary activity was little more than political pornography . |
| 16 | Environmentalists , who have long campaigned for a single agency , have expressed their concern that the plans for the reform of the Inspectorate amount to little more than political opportunism and will have little real impact . |
| 17 | There is , however , little more than anecdotal evidence that these are effective . |
| 18 | It does look , after all , as if respectability posed the greatest of all threats to the survival of Nonconformity ; the son and grandson of Baptist believers as he was , cousin to a family of ardent devotees of the Worship Street Chapel , William Charles appears to have paid little more than passing lip-service to the cause . |
| 19 | You can create quite a memorable set out of little more than good lighting . |
| 20 | This is a new requirement for most information systems , which have simply expanded to contain ever more data , relevant and timely or not ; but it is surely little more than good practice should require in the interests of efficient and economical operation . |
| 21 | Despite assurances from advisers over the confidentiality of information presented in the self-appraisal , it seems that most staff were unwilling to produce anything more than a public type of document , providing little more than factual information . |
| 22 | Some items were of little more than symbolic significance , but others were more substantial . |
| 23 | However , the title of this paper restricts reference to developed countries only , but even here the normative suggestions about distortions to prices of factors and outputs ( leading to inappropriate signals to research institutions ) seem to amount to little more than wishful thinking . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The 1964 Labour Government was elected on a tide of impatience at the slackening pace of social reform , but also of optimism that little more than economic growth , fuelled by technological change , was needed to remove the main causes of urban deprivation ( MacGregor , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | Lou Reed 's lyrics amount to little more than self-indulgent nastiness , says Tony Parsons |
| 27 | There are stabs at the mysterious menace of ‘ Skin Deep ’ , the trashy pop wonder exemplified by tunes such as ‘ Nice In Nice ’ and the arty decadence of ‘ Golden Brown ’ — and they all sound like little more than well-executed pub rock . |
| 28 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 29 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 30 | This theory regards purring as little more than heavy breathing of the type humans sometimes indulge in when they are asleep — in other words , snoring . |