Example sentences of "[prep] the local " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often local pubs serve as a base for the local community : as Neil Richardson pointed out in CAMRA 's Pub Preservation report of 1980 , ‘ The pub is first and foremost a social centre , the best ever invented … |
| 2 | I collect aluminium cans for the local branch of Guide Dogs for the Blind . |
| 3 | His place will be taken by Jez Harris in one of three changes from the team beaten at Llanelli , Alan Warwood coming into the centre for the local county captain , Kevin McDonald , and Malcolm Foulkes-Arnold replacing Alex Gissing in the second row . |
| 4 | The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils . |
| 5 | As though this were not enough , a gang of Ugandan footpads then raided the homes of the newly-arrived British police training mission and made off with their video machines — plus their training tapes for the local police on how to prevent burglaries . |
| 6 | If there had to be a foreign , non-Ukrainian government in Poltava , then for the local peasantry Great Russians were preferable to Germans . |
| 7 | Accompanied by Major Clive Elderton , the Company Commander , and the interpreter , they set off for the local slaughterhouse some ten kilometres away . |
| 8 | The effects could be disastrous for the entire fish population , which in turn is bad news for the local industries based on fishing . |
| 9 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |
| 10 | On behalf of all local authority caterers , I thank Joe Hyam for his kind words and support for the local authority caterers . |
| 11 | He works from dawn to dusk and then , for recreation , goes home to his little cottage in the grounds and tends his own little garden , growing prize specimens for the local show . |
| 12 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
| 13 | Not only was the company interested exclusively in cheap pictures for the local market , but also Dean had to go through the ignominious process of securing cast approval on his pictures from Solly Newman , the head of the company 's UK subsidiary , whom he regarded as both ‘ illiterate ’ and ‘ over-shrewd where money was concerned . ’ |
| 14 | The man charged with keeping the foragers in check is Mr Carlo Porceddu , security chief for the local World Cup Organisation . |
| 15 | A ‘ European ’ car , for instance , would be designed and built in Britain for the local mass market , but also exported as a niche product to Japan and America . |
| 16 | The museum was designed ‘ to foster universal recognition of his genius ’ ; but behind the facade , adorned with eggs and loaves of bread , the paintings show the painter 's particular love for the local landscape and coastline . |
| 17 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 18 | He was also carrying an orange poster on a pole , urging a vote for the local Liberal Democrat candidate . |
| 19 | He plays darts for the local pub , and his wife Anne , has joined the Womens Institute . |
| 20 | He married a bishop 's daughter and , appropriately , they live in St Albans , in a house that is handy for the local Romanesque cathedral , which David French boasts he can see when he is lying in the bath and , while he is shaving , reflected in the mirror . |
| 21 | In Acton he would hold meetings in his home for the local people . |
| 22 | We will reform the Conservatives ' scheme for the local management of schools . |
| 23 | We will reform the Conservatives ' scheme for the local management of schools . |
| 24 | ‘ The Works ’ — as we came to know the railway shops — provided most of the employment for the local inhabitants . |
| 25 | Copa Bitoo had moved away from a subsistence economy , but was producing fruit and nuts for the local market , not for export . |
| 26 | John Large , an engineering consultant who gave evidence for the local authorities consortium , compared the problem to dismantling a beehive at the end of the season . |
| 27 | There is nonetheless little doubt that it has spent much of its working life as a corn mill , grinding corn for the local population . |
| 28 | One Y6 thought vaguely about inviting Michael Jackson but finally plumped for the local third-division full-back who lived just down the road . |
| 29 | The graffiti gives an idea of the strength of support for the local football club , a guide to the local teenage love pairings , and sometimes a frank unsolicited appraisal of a member of staff . |
| 30 | Joyce is a music adviser for the local education authority . |