Example sentences of "little more than [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . |
| 2 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 3 | In many cases , they are provided as little more than typesetting tapes , in need of considerable ’ cleaning up ’ or normalisation . |
| 4 | State authorities attempting to regulate youth culture are seen as little more than parent substitutes . |
| 5 | We already know that many of the existing members of the Community currently pay little more than lip service to EC directives . |
| 6 | But much of that was little more than Lobby gossip . |
| 7 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 8 | Credit managers have traditionally been regarded in many companies as little more than debt collectors , albeit often highly effective ones . |
| 9 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 10 | When they turned off the main road Uncle George had to drive at little more than walking pace , for he could n't see where the lane ended and the ditches at the sides began , for snow cloaked everything . |
| 11 | At little more than walking speed it glides away . |
| 12 | He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them . |
| 13 | further , top management may do little more than pay lip-service to computing . |
| 14 | This model of socialism has involved some limited changes in economic ownership , but in practice has invariably amounted to little more than state direction of predominantly privately owned economic activity , and the maintenance of some minimum standards of social provision for all . |
| 15 | The self-centred and materialistic climate of the decade corrodes ideals and concerns about social justice , narrowing perspectives to the point where conversations comprise little more than house prices or retiling the bathroom . |
| 16 | Second , the institutions of government , apart from the Council , did little more than process decisions made elsewhere . |
| 17 | For instance , Gellner 's attack on analytic philosophy from an anthropological perspective ; the exposure of eugenics in 1930s psychology ; the connections between certain kinds of research in chemistry and the agricultural and food industries ; the models of human motivation — often little more than employee manipulation to be found in management studies ; Illich 's critique of medicine ; and the underlying interest in control over the natural environment within the physical sciences . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Artefacts are frequently reconstructed before they are put on display , which may involve little more than repair work , such as sticking pieces of pot together and filling any remaining gaps . |
| 21 | The Army ordered sentries to wear flak jackets and constructed many sandbagged emplacements , although most barracks were still protected by little more than chain link fences . |
| 22 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
| 23 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 24 | Enclosure turned small or fragmented holdings and commons suitable for little more than subsistence agriculture into consolidated holdings able to support the new farming and generate capital for improvement . |
| 25 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |