Example sentences of "[noun] [be] little [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This introductory piece was little more than an extremely abbreviated version of the February preface . |
| 2 | The first stage of the scaffolding was little more than a foot above his head . |
| 3 | No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection . |
| 4 | Twenty-four hours before , Nicola Sharpe was little more than a bloody corpse , a name , a glossy image on a television screen . |
| 5 | He had made known his personal opposition to multiparty politics , claiming that the current campaign was little more than a mass protest against the stringencies of the economic recovery plan [ see p. 37523 ] . |
| 6 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 7 | Thus the Sizewell inquiry is little more than an expensive public relations exercise . |
| 8 | After England 's winter successes , a Test series win in New Zealand and runners-up to Pakistan in the World Cup , the announcement was little more than a formality . |
| 9 | The stream was little more than a frozen marsh , pierced by tufts of blackened grass . |
| 10 | His nose was little more than a bloodied lump and the bruising around his left eye was so severe he could barely see out of it . |
| 11 | The reception room was little more than a hall . |
| 12 | The restoration of contemporary art is little more than a childish effort to arrest artistic expression at its moment of birth a mistaken longing for eternal youth . |
| 13 | By 1370 the king was little more than a debauched , ageing and apathetic figurehead ; the Black Prince was already mortally ill , and government was largely conducted by John of Gaunt in alliance with courtiers and the king 's mistress , Alice Perrers . |
| 14 | At the time West Ham was little more to me than a name , most directly associated with a football team that had a reputation for style and steadfast support in spite of limited success on the field . |
| 15 | Both sides , however , agreed that the use of statistical tests without a well-thought-out theory was little more than useless . |
| 16 | Yet Pomgol was little more than a conglomerate made up of other relevant state departments . |
| 17 | But the action plan was merely a listing of the planned investments and control was little more than a bureaucratic formality , because of the notion that state enterprise management was autonomous . |
| 18 | It seems , then , that the average undertaker was little more than a speculative cabinet-maker and joiner who , either by direct contact with the metalworking trades , or via such funeral houses as Richard Green 's , was able to buy in at wholesale all that was required for a funeral . |
| 19 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
| 20 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 21 | As Rene Padilla cautions , ‘ To speak of the Kingdom of God is to speak of the purpose of God , of which the empirical church is little more than a pale reflection ’ ( Padilla 1975:43 ) . |
| 22 | Her voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 23 | Ellwood 's voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 24 | Her voice was little more than a whispery croak and she tried again . |
| 25 | He did n't move closer to her , but his voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 26 | In many ways the Council of Europe was little more than a continuation of the traditional format of cooperation , transcribed to a bigger stage , and could not itself move forward to a supranational or federalist future . |
| 27 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 28 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 29 | Though David Newnham , in the Guardian ( 24 July 1990 ) , calls the film " post- modernism : the movie " , Scott 's version is little more than a violent adventure story . |
| 30 | The restaurant was little more than an intelligently decorated semi-basement with space enough for a bar and a half dozen tables . |