Example sentences of "of more than [adj] importance " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outlook was considered all the more rosy from their point of view , since Denwood would have to be made what is known as a divisional point , that is to say , a station of more than ordinary importance , inasmuch as it would indicate the end of a running section — the point where the train would have to change engines . |
| 2 | That the kindred of Osbern of Eu and the kindred of William fitzOsbern with their friends had succeeded in carrying Duke William to a resounding victory against the invasion of his combined enemies was therefore news of more than ordinary importance . |
| 3 | The withdrawal of delegates from the UN from the conference is of more than symbolic importance . |
| 4 | The purpose of this chapter is to identify the places where specialist collections of more than local importance may be found , as well as indicating the kind of local material that is so freely accessible . |
| 5 | The Flemish cities , Laon , and Toulouse were all commercial centres of more than local importance before they launched their campaigns for privileges ; and if their leaders were not highly educated men at the beginning of the century — it has been suggested that the reason why weaving was concentrated in towns in Flanders was that illiterate merchants could not keep the complicated records necessary for a scattered cottage industry — then they rapidly acquired learning along with their corporate awareness in the course of the century . |
| 6 | When these are considered of more than local importance , they are taken up at a national level . |
| 7 | Successive Governments have adopted the policy that individual decisions should be taken out of the hands of local planning authorities only if they raise issues of more than local importance . |
| 8 | What now needs to be established , in accordance with our usual policy , is whether the proposal raises issues of more than local importance or whether the matters in question justify a departure from the policy that matters of local importance should be dealt with by local authorities . |
| 9 | I do n't believe that the Secretary of State has need to call it in and indeed Mr Curry has written to the local Member of Parliament saying his mind is still open but on the information he had in October he does not think that these that this application raises issues of more than local importance . |
| 10 | Does it raise issues of more than local importance . |
| 11 | If the Department of the Environment think that there are issues of more than local importance they will call it in but their preliminary view expressed to the local MP Mr is that they do n't believe that 's the case . |
| 12 | By themselves , these facts do not stand as a complete answer to the challenge : if the industrial co-operative form of organisation is more efficient than the conventional form , why is it that the first has not displaced the second but has remained until recently a negligible feature of the economy and , even now , can hardly be said to have become so far of more than marginal importance ? |