Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] by local " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some assistance has been provided by local sponsorship and training grants ( formerly from the Manpower Services Commission ) have been made available . |
| 2 | All the gardens have been chosen by local inspectors , and 80 have been awarded the highest accolade of a two-star rating . |
| 3 | In five out of the last seven years the success rate for this type of appeal has been the first or second highest for all categories and almost one in every two appeals has been lost by local authorities . |
| 4 | APPROVAL has been given by local planners for a detached house to be built on land adjacent to Glebe End in Vicarage Lane , Ropley . |
| 5 | Quite a number of endangered buildings have been saved by local people who have set up a building preservation trust , acquired the building , restored it and sometimes resold it . |
| 6 | He added the scheme contravened existing structure plans and traffic risk fears had been voiced by local residents . |
| 7 | PERMISSION for the addition of a bedroom and bathroom at Long Reach , 12 Lymington Bottom Road , Four Marks has been granted by local planners . |
| 8 | Ira Dilworth , Lawren Harris and I journeyed together to Victoria for the funeral and none of us were pall-bearers , such details having been arranged by local friends and neighbours . |
| 9 | PROPOSALS for a first floor extension , detached double garage and internal alterations at Midfield , Gascoigne Lane , Ropley have been refused by local planners . |
| 10 | The steady rise in quality of the materials produced and developed at Dudley Teachers ' Centre , for instance , is an excellent example ; the centre has an enthusiastic warden and much of the work has developed under the stimulus of an outstanding educational adviser , but the content of the materials has been developed by local teachers with admirable results ( mostly limited at present to print-form ) . |
| 11 | The ruling has been attacked by local shopkeepers and by a member of the town council . |
| 12 | The IRA attack has been slammed by local councillors who accused the terrorists of showing a ‘ complete disregard ’ for life . |
| 13 | The LNHS is the long-established basis for studies of natural history in London , and the society 's approach has been complemented by local groups with environmental interests . |
| 14 | Lothar Späth resigned as CDU Minister President of Baden-Württemberg on Jan. 13 following allegations ( which he denied ) that a number of his and his family 's vacations had been financed by local companies which were then favoured when contracts were awarded . |
| 15 | The policy U-turn has been welcomed by local authorities , who claimed they did not have the resources needed to draw up the registers , and by building and property groups . |
| 16 | Finally , the situation has been worsened by local factors such as local government reorganization in 1974 which converted the former Huddersfield town council , seemingly better disposed towards the polytechnic , into Kirklees Metropolitan Council , and difficult personal relationships between the senior management of the polytechnic and leading local councillors . |
| 17 | Six resolutions calling on Labour to organise and contest elections in the province have been submitted by local constituency parties in Great Britain for debate at the conference . |
| 18 | The venture has been masterminded by local farmer Brian Craven with backing from a Dutch consortium . |
| 19 | Now the control tower of this famous wartime airfield has been restored by local enthusiasts who form the Three Hundred and Ninetieth Memorial Air Museum . |
| 20 | A seed processing plant being built in India has been attacked by local farmers , protesting that foreign seed companies are " gene thieves " capitalising on local crops at the expense of those who grow them . |
| 21 | Days before the explosions the water company had been told by local people of the strong smell of gas in the district , but it had not ordered an evacuation . |
| 22 | A spokesman for the Palm Beach County circuit court yesterday confirmed adoption papers had been logged by local lawyer Weston Sigmund . |
| 23 | Some schemes have been consumer-led ; others have been initiated by local authority or health service managers or by local councillors ; for others the impetus has come from social researchers ; and still others have come about through joint action by social workers and their managers . |
| 24 | A similar pattern can be seen around Bath , where , over the last 200 years and more , changes in the landscape have been noted by local antiquaries with all discoveries being carefully recorded . |
| 25 | Houses have been bought by local builders with plans to restore them , though in many such cases very little work is actually done . |
| 26 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |
| 27 | A £2,000 reward had been raised by local people after the killings for information leading to those responsible . |
| 28 | Six main categories have been suggested by local older people 's groups for discussion . |