Example sentences of "[noun] as little " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hispanized inhabitants of the lowlands viewed the unconverted pagans as little better than animals , whose lack of sophistication in dealing with a market economy allowed them to be exploited through debt bondage and coerced trade . |
| 2 | ‘ I assure you that we will add to your distress as little as possible , but we shall be here from time to time and you will also be asked to make a formal statement . ’ |
| 3 | When he was starting on a case he used his car as little as possible . |
| 4 | Although I am a motorist myself I use the car as little as possible , prefering to cycle for all urban journeys . |
| 5 | She cared for religion as little as I for politics — less , for politics painfully makes itself heard and-felt ; twice it came near to breaking up my life , even though I defied it to interest me . |
| 6 | This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game . |
| 7 | At its shortest the coat is seen by some designers as little more than a regular outsize jacket . |
| 8 | Far from treating the demonstration as a serious political event , the media portrayed the demonstration as little more than a ‘ performance ’ , speculating about the possible fashion wear of the participants . |
| 9 | The Washington statement was issued at 5 p.m. local time and rocked the United States as little had done since the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and of Martin Luther King . |
| 10 | Credit managers have traditionally been regarded in many companies as little more than debt collectors , albeit often highly effective ones . |
| 11 | The Kuwait embassy in Jordan described the withdrawal as little more than a manoeuvre to disguise the theft of Kuwaiti military equipment . |
| 12 | Violence was a daily part of their lives , and the men paid Trent 's leash as little attention as they would have spared for the commonplace of a bleeding corpse sprawled in the gutter back home . |
| 13 | My main aim is to direct their work as little as possible , letting them find their own system and choose their own path to follow . |
| 14 | Though it hardly arose , for the boy was engrossed in his Welsh affairs , and came south as little as he could . |
| 15 | Spoiling his grand posture as little as possible , he glanced quickly sideways into the crowd to see who was speaking to whom . |
| 16 | ( Try to alter the sense of the passage as little as possible in your revisions . ) |
| 17 | Individuals should be restricted and segregated from the general community as little as possible . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The thing to do was move as little as possible . |
| 20 | They see routine non-manual workers as little different to manual workers : they neither own the means of production nor do they perform important social control functions for capitalists . |
| 21 | Use a squeeze pipette to take a few drops of water from the surface of the culture , trying to disturb the surface as little as possible . |
| 22 | Development work continued and in about 1980 they began to launch a series of compact lamps , with tube diameters as little as 16 mm , in novel and innovative shapes and sizes . |
| 23 | In its time , Gosstandard was regarded by most western vendors as little more than a pseudo tax on western suppliers . |
| 24 | Sometimes the way we act shows up our beliefs as little better than the hazy notions of an unbeliever . |
| 25 | Thus the US ambassador in London dismissed the special relationship as little more than " sentimental terminology " while the US secretary of defense wrote off the British as a " powerful ally " . |
| 26 | Tim Reagan , who would not have dared to give his French wife as little time as Claudia Yeo got , murmured that this was of course important and good luck to them , indeed . |
| 27 | Up to times as little as unc after the big bang , the Universe would have been hot ( energetic ) enough to create magnetic monopoles , and some of these should still be around . |
| 28 | How often have those lines been my prayer : ‘ Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed . |
| 29 | ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications . |
| 30 | However , foreign commentators were almost unanimous in assessing that the less-than-ringing endorsement for the preservation of the union , especially in the Russian Federation and the Ukraine , represented a blow to Gorbachev 's authority ( many people had looked upon the referendum as little short of a vote of confidence in Gorbachev ) . |