Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a local " 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 | Curtis Office Supplies , based on Risdale Street , has been introduced to a local supplier of tubular steel chair frames and is now placing orders with Profix Fabrication on Neasham Road . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , ’ Morton remarked , ‘ the barrow might have been used by a local resident just to move furniture . |
| 5 | On enquiry they were told that the other had been lent to a local restaurant when it suffered a power cut . |
| 6 | They had heard that Shill had been seen with a local man , Johnny Turner , at the King 's Head Monday lunchtime . |
| 7 | Mrs Meikle said just two days ago Graham had been seen in a local pub . |
| 8 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 9 | There were some who said he was a man whose children had been savaged by a local hound . |
| 10 | The mercury had been discharged from a local chemical plant . |
| 11 | Beer had been thrown over a local and Slatter was obviously to blame . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Plans have been prepared by a local architect for a clubhouse , traditional pavilion and all-weather nets . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While this is often assumed axiomatic to good services , which have been removed from a local base only because of the division of labour requirements of bureaux , it is not a self-evident welfare virtue . |
| 16 | It 's been started with a local council grant , and caters for some of an estimated one thousand people who would otherwise have to eat from rubbish bins … or simply go hungry . |