Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by a local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 2 | One of the most important finds of late Roman gold and silver coins and objects has been located by a local man , retired gardener Eric Lawes , with a metal detector in a field in Suffolk . |
| 3 | Plans have been prepared by a local architect for a clubhouse , traditional pavilion and all-weather nets . |
| 4 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , ’ Morton remarked , ‘ the barrow might have been used by a local resident just to move furniture . |
| 6 | Complete with keeper , the pachyderms are supplied by a local company , Dial-an-Elephant . |
| 7 | His predecessor , Expedito Ribeiro de Souza , had been shot dead on Feb. 2 ; police arrested a suspect who claimed that he had been hired by a local landowner to carry out the killing . |
| 8 | After a full examination of the problem , the Layfield Committee recommended , not that the local rate should be abolished , but that rates should be supplemented by a local income tax . |
| 9 | This could be done by a local newsagent buying his nearest rival , or the local sole practitioner accountant merging with his only rival . |
| 10 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |
| 11 | Neither can it make a specific issue or prohibited steps order so as to require a child to be accommodated by a local authority as this would in effect allow the authority to take the child into care without necessarily satisfying the s31 criteria ( s9(5) ( b ) ) . |
| 12 | An index value could be fixed by a local authority for a particular planning area ; in other words no development within an area zoned for office use should exceed a certain value as measured by the index . |
| 13 | In view of the customary informal liaison between environmental health officers and inspectors , however , it seems that as long as the inspector is striving to abate the odour , no action will be taken by a local authority until the odour becomes very bad indeed . |
| 14 | The forest bounds were to be determined by a local jury in each county , in the presence of the justices , the Justice of the Forest or his deputy , and the foresters , ‘ according to the tenor of the Forest Charter of Henry III , saving always the King 's oath , the right of his Crown , and the actions and claims of the King and all others ’ . |
| 15 | The shooting incident happened on Sunday evening , but the cat , Inkie , is still being treated by a local vet after losing an eye when the pellet lodged in his head . |
| 16 | Here we were boarded by a local party who were to assist mooring . |
| 17 | The cask is now being repaired by a local funeral director , but there can be no comfort for Mrs. Fieding for the loss of her husband 's ashes ; |
| 18 | A national sample survey carried out by local amenity societies for the Civic Trust in 1976 revealed that , of 279 vacant sites , a third were owned by a local authority , and a further tenth by other public bodies . |
| 19 | The church gates of locally grown oak were fashioned by a local craftsman . |
| 20 | They were replaced by a local bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie associated with the ascendant manufacturing and commercial sectors , while rural labour gave way to industrial labour . |
| 21 | The three of them were introduced by a local rehearsal studio owner . |
| 22 | Captain Richard Williams , Welsh Guards , Lieutenant Colonel Mark Walton , Royal Artillery , and Royal Navy Lieutenant Scott Verney were seized by a local terrorist commander . |
| 23 | Local schemes were run by a local duty solicitor committee , whose functions included that of considering applications from those wishing to act as duty solicitors . |
| 24 | The borehole also provided new information that will lead to a structural reinterpretation of parts of the Tempisque forearc basin , the hydrocarbon potential of which is being investigated by a local organisation . |
| 25 | The concrete pipes were donated by a local supermarket which is being built nearby . |
| 26 | There were some who said he was a man whose children had been savaged by a local hound . |
| 27 | The duo 's first album has Irish sales of 27,000 so far , and is also to be released Japan , of all places , where Kieran 's songs are so popular that two of them have been recorded by a local singer — the lyrics translated into Japanese . |
| 28 | Public law proceedings must be commenced in a magistrates ' court unless there are already public law proceedings pending in a county court or the High Court or the application is made by a local authority following a s37 direction to investigate made in family proceedings in either court ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) . |
| 29 | Tipperary , owned by Merck , Sharp and Dohme is accused by a local farmer of causing his cattle to die . |
| 30 | But it is still against the spirit of the Act to impose restrictions on contact where a child is accommodated by a local authority . |