Example sentences of "relation to local [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Involvement is one thing , but we should never make the mistake which we may have done in relation to local government , of appearing to focus all our energies in one direction .
2 Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ .
3 Since 1974 the ‘ local ombudsman ’ has been available to supplement the role of local councillors in dealing with complaints made by citizens in relation to local government services , while more recently certain statutory requirements have been emplaced to give other , slightly more formal , remedies .
4 Since 1960 , this usually has meant studying war in relation to local ecology ’ ( 1984 : 23 ) .
5 Chapter 6 discusses these as revealed by patterns of social indicators , and action consequences are reviewed in relation to local politics and political culture .
6 There is little exploration of the sorts of processes and events reported in research in Manchester ( Ward , 1979 ) and London ( Wall man , 1986 ) , for example , which documents the shifting forms of boundary maintenance , division and alliance that emerge in relation to local politics .
7 A postage-paid questionnaire published in a mass market women 's magazine and in the ethnic press will be used to collect up-to-date national-level data on the incidence and range of homeworking , its relation to local labour market conditions and the sectoral distribution of suppliers .
8 It is intended to construct a new spatial classification of retail activity in the conurbation , to consider changes in the structure of retail employment in relation to local labour supply , and to assess the differential impact of change on various groups of consumers .
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