Example sentences of "[prep] [be] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Adeane 's function as private secretary appeared to be little more than the job of arranging the Prince 's schedule around polo and the children 's bath times . |
| 3 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 4 | Locke rejects this , though his arguments against Descartes 's identification of body with extension tend to be little more than initial difficulties . |
| 5 | Either way it is likely , as Palmerston said of a projected coalition with Disraeli in 1857 , to be little more than ‘ the accident and fortuitous concurrence of atoms ’ . |
| 6 | Initially there appeared to be little to choose between them , but careful comparative trials showed that Marsilid made more contribution than isoniazid to the improvements in appetite and the weight gain . |
| 7 | But the chapter , entitled ‘ A computer model of music recognition ’ — whose title whetted my appetite considerably — proved to be little more than a pious hope that studying the way a computer can be programmed to recognise music might help to understand the way the human brain does it . |
| 8 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 9 | The fighting which followed took place spasmodically as the moon emerged from behind a cloud or one side fired at the other 's musket flashes and the Battle of Clifton turned out to be little more than a skirmish . |
| 10 | There would seem to be little doubt that Parliament could , by passing an Act ( which would , of course , necessitate the Royal Assent ) establish a republic . |
| 11 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 12 | Despite the presence of sound Trinomic cushioning and stability technology in the two main Disc shoes , it is hard to believe runners will shell out hefty sums for a central concept which appears to be little more than a glorified lacing system . |
| 13 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 14 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |
| 15 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 16 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 17 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 18 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 19 | In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders . |
| 20 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 21 | Even though Jones eventually fell , mis-hooking Pringle just before tea , after 3½ hours of defiance , the last session looked set to be little more than batting practice for the home side . |
| 22 | There seems to be little doubt that the liberal reforms of the US occupation did attempt to safeguard basic individual rights and reinforce the institutions of a free market economy . |
| 23 | There appears to be little change in prevalence rates with age ( see Figure 5.2 ) , but rates are considerably higher in women as compared with men ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 24 | This is tabloid film-making in which the protagonists are cardboard cut-outs , played by lookalike actors whose portrayals , however skilful , are doomed to be little more than glorified Mike Yarwood impersonations . |
| 25 | Sometimes it appears to be little more than this , as in the case of the temporary vogue for ‘ Occitania ’ in France in the 1970s , the shift of a number of able intellectuals of the Left to Scottish nationalism in the same decade and the preoccupation with what was claimed to be Valencian national identity in the early 1980s among left intellectuals of the Spanish Levante . |
| 26 | Indeed , a large part of his public life and known history would seem to be little more than an embodiment and re-enactment of the prophecies . |
| 27 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 28 | With there often being many routes to approximately similar goals , there would appear to be little to be gained from studying these developing routes through the design process , However , the constraints and objectives set on the way are seen to " steer " the designers towards similar goals by differing paths . |
| 29 | He used stochastic simulation to examine the no-arbitrage price of the S&P500 , and found there to be little effect . |
| 30 | There seems to be little doubt , however , that the development of the form imbricata is determined genetically . |