Example sentences of "more than a local " in BNC.

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1 The Stirling bombers used on the S.A.S. missions such as Houndsworth were more than a local goods service ferrying freight to various points in France .
2 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 .
3 The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Some evidence for a layered structure was found , but whether this is anything more than a local feature is unknown .
7 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 .
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