Example sentences of "little [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of being a vertical fall it will be merely a gentle hump , especially if the offshore gradient is very little steeper than the original river gradient . |
| 2 | However that might have been , it was clear that the elderly female residents regarded her as little better than a whore . |
| 3 | Lewis read the great realists of the past , even of the present , and he sometimes admired them ; but he saw their world as little better than a health-farm , held himself bound by no especial duty to study his own times , and longed for richer fare . |
| 4 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 5 | SO-CALLED slimming or high-fibre breads are very little better than the much-maligned sliced white loaf , on the basis of ‘ calories ’ per ounce ( or kilojoules per kilogram ) . |
| 6 | Sometimes the way we act shows up our beliefs as little better than the hazy notions of an unbeliever . |
| 7 | Even where post-merger firms did achieve productivity gains , they did little better than the productivity performance of the industry as a whole . |
| 8 | One of the ‘ Blue Chips ’ , regarded in her early days as little better than an Edward Heath Youth Movement , the new Secretary of State for the Environment is now her green-eyed boy . |
| 9 | The certificate on form R190(SD) must be completed but this can be done at any time and amounts to little more than a claim procedure . |
| 10 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 11 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 12 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 13 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 16 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 17 | Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products . |
| 18 | However , there is a danger that the smoke could be little more than a pungent sign of burning fingers . |
| 19 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 20 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 21 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 22 | The Peking Daily , organ of the city 's ultra-conservative party organisation , accused the disgraced former leader of trying to turn the party into little more than a ‘ social club ’ shorn of power . |
| 23 | The descent , mirrored by a similar plunge against the dollar , has taken little more than a fortnight . |
| 24 | Yet Pomgol was little more than a conglomerate made up of other relevant state departments . |
| 25 | Emigration to Australia or New Zealand , let alone the United States , which had its own extreme problems of crime and racial violence , was little more than a trickle . |
| 26 | And it occurs so easily — almost passively — requiring little more than a relinquishing of the effort of emulation , the erasure of ‘ to be like ’ and the surrender to what remains : ‘ I desire … you ’ ; thus : ‘ I desire ( to be like ) you ’ . |
| 27 | The third National Government followed upon the resignation of the Liberal ministers and of the free trader , Snowden , in September 1932 , after which it became little more than a Conservative government , with the adhesion of a few ex-Labour and Liberal politicians , all owing their seats to an electoral pact with the Conservatives . |
| 28 | Before the marriage Maggie had been little more than a drudge round the house . |
| 29 | This Eurocentrism was inevitable at a time when in Europe only European history was at all well known , and Marx 's and Engels 's ‘ general ’ stages often read like little more than a generalized history of western Europe . |
| 30 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |