Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet despite this there has mostly in practice been little depth , little more than discussion of opinions with regard to these ultimate questions — what one disillusioned teacher called " mutual exchange of ignorance " . |
| 2 | Whatever the noise , though , the average speed is little more than 40mph . |
| 3 | A few days later , Charles thought fleetingly of the Superintendent 's little shock and the blackbird singing away as if he was just making a bad joke . |
| 4 | This introductory piece was little more than an extremely abbreviated version of the February preface . |
| 5 | The first stage of the scaffolding was little more than a foot above his head . |
| 6 | ‘ Granny 's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you . ’ |
| 7 | Chorus numbers were sung in full , and the Hoflin girl 's little solo in Act Two was performed from beginning to end , but Ingrid , who was singing Lisa — not such a heavy role , but she still had a couple of solos — was resting her voice again , and the rest just walked and hummed their roles . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | And there , too , was the fisherman 's little son , lying in a golden cradle . |
| 10 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 11 | The food to which Agnes Diggory led her had been welcome , however , and she had chosen to consume it in the friendly housekeeper 's little pantry next to the kitchen , rather than risk encountering Miss Merchiston once again tonight . |
| 12 | Thus the Sizewell inquiry is little more than an expensive public relations exercise . |
| 13 | If we 're honest , most of us reviewers prefer to engage in a dialogue with the author and director , addressing concepts of political theatre rather than the actor 's little trick of twitching his left ear . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The stream was little more than a frozen marsh , pierced by tufts of blackened grass . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The reception room was little more than a hall . |
| 18 | IT is time , some would say about time too , for the Diary 's little competition . |
| 19 | A man who was very friendly with another , or his senior kinsmen , could adopt a more expository technique : he would sit facing him and take his left hand ; as he made his points he would take his friend 's little finger , move it away from the others and hold it : ‘ first … ‘ then the next finger : ‘ second … ‘ ; until he had moved the digits all to one side , like beads on an abacus . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In his review of the 1992 Flyer Organiser Mr James Allan , among much other misinformation , states : ‘ Should you ever want to fly ( to Bodmin ) please do n't rely on this guide 's little mini-map to show you where it is . ’ |
| 23 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 24 | The island is little more than a dozen miles long and in places only a mile or two wide . |
| 25 | And as he struggled to swim , the woman 's little bone hook caught in his hair and pulled him up . |
| 26 | On the beach , the pirates were breaking up the captain 's little boat with axes . |
| 27 | Hunter brought the captain 's little boat round under the cabin window , and Joyce and I put guns and food and my medicine chest in it . |
| 28 | Both sides , however , agreed that the use of statistical tests without a well-thought-out theory was little more than useless . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |