Example sentences of "[verb] little [det] than [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old man — she was the child of a second marriage , and he had been well past forty before she was born — snorted his disbelief , but she knew he was doing little more than vent the nervousness of the past hours , now that the suspense was over . |
| 2 | Mr Franco had been branded as a distracted caretaker , doing little more than warming the presidential chair he inherited last October , when Fernando Collor was ousted in disgrace . |
| 3 | Museums which take this grant , while doing little more than offer the occasional public lecture , or some minimal help to schoolteachers who arrive with their pupils , risk having such financial support severely cut back , or even withdrawn . |
| 4 | It sounds as if we are doing little more than making the best of a bad job . |
| 5 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 6 | To the extent that functioning markets have emerged — notably in the car parks of every big city — they do little more than recycle the small supply of consumer goods . |
| 7 | The general principles just outlined apply in sale of goods , for although there are sections of the Sale of Goods Act governing the assessment of damages , those sections do little more than embody the general principles . |
| 8 | The trouble is that museum exhibitions , as traditionally arranged , do little more than offer a catalogue of seemingly-unrelated assertions about the subject matter . |