Example sentences of "local [noun sg] [noun] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many part-time mature graduates are relatively limited to a local labour market rather than a national or international one , and this probably influences the behaviour of both employers and graduates . |
| 2 | Wilson is also an advocate of the particular significance of informal , local community control rather than just more effective policing ( these informal controls , it may be remembered , were not considered by the original classical criminologists ) . |
| 3 | But her outlook was subtly different , say from that of Edward Heath , whose father was a carpenter in a small town in Kent and who , like Mrs Thatcher , went to a local grammar school rather than the private boarding schools favoured by most Tory leaders . |
| 4 | If a pregnancy is pre-marital , it trebles the relative risk of a couple ending up in the local authority sector rather than the owner-occupied one ( Murphy , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Conversely , the reverse pattern was found for single women who had given birth who were five times more likely to be local authority tenants rather than owner-occupiers . |
| 6 | In particular it has attempted to take on board community aspirations and local authority plans rather than ride roughshod over local wishes . |
| 7 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 8 | Mid Essex Mental Health Services is one of the few remaining branches of the NHS in the county still answerable directly to its local health authority rather than having trust status . |
| 9 | Mr Clinton will try to fudge the tax issue , arguing that most of the money will come from a wage-based premium , which will go straight to local health alliances rather than to the Treasury , and that much of the rest will come from ‘ sin taxes ’ — on alcohol and tobacco — which appeal to America 's Puritan conscience . |