Example sentences of "than a local [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A national election victory gives a stronger moral claim to rule than a local election . |
| 2 | Some evidence for a layered structure was found , but whether this is anything more than a local feature is unknown . |
| 3 | The study found that the impact of conversion on local employment is minimal , particularly if it is done by the farmer 's family rather than a local company . |
| 4 | Together , the Big Five laid the foundations of the distinctive Scottish systems of a small number of large banks with extensive networks , as opposed to say the English pattern of thousands of small banks with nothing more than a local presence . |
| 5 | Police say the attacker 's probaby disturbed and travelling , rather than a local person . |
| 6 | Indeed , if anything , they seem to have been too demoralised politically to organise effectively at anything more than a local level , and that in itself is testimony to the devastating effect of the Kulturkampf and Polenpolitik . |
| 7 | Class B ( rare ) A charge on land ( other than a local land charge ) of any of the kinds described in Class A created otherwise than pursuant to the application of any person . |
| 8 | Green clearly perceived the protracted negotiations as a major national problem rather than a local skirmish over the retention of Chapter III providing powers by one WEA District . |
| 9 | They argued that since poverty was not one problem but a complex of many , each category of need ( sickness , widowhood , old age , etc. ) should be separately dealt with by a committee of the elected local authority , with the exception of unemployment , which as a national rather than a local problem should be dealt with by central government . |
| 10 | This is really not much more than a local plan for land use over a larger area , so there is now no strategic mechanism for the City of Tyneside . |
| 11 | One could develop the argument that a well-run housing association , with tenants on the board and with regular consultation , might be more accountable than a local authority for which there was a vote only every four years and which tended to ignore the views of tenants . |
| 12 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 13 | If an expatriate , rather than a local employee is really needed , the organisation has to consider whether to relocate an existing employee or recruit specifically to fill the post . |
| 14 | Five years later , and after an initial ‘ thrashing ’ by Birmingham for the British nomination , the bid is more substantial than a local headline , £2 million more , the Duke of Westminster and a dozen of Britain 's blue-chip companies and corporations each persuaded by Scott 's vision of a North-west renaissance to dip into their accounts for at least £100,000 . |