Example sentences of "local [noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whilst retaining the right of local authorities to allocate the overall block between individual programmes , block spending grants were now related to ‘ optimum ’ levels of expenditure , with financial penalties imposed on errant authorities .
2 Friends of the Earth is urging local authorities to use the new laws as a means of prosecuting polluting dump sites .
3 But they gave opportunities for the advancement of town planning , facilitating consultancy work and ( so ably fostered by Pepler ) encouraging individual local authorities to take the first steps in scheme preparation in their own areas .
4 The introduction of local income tax would allow local authorities to undermine the budgetary plans of the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
5 The main method of investigation will be a series of interviews with senior development control officers from one local authority planning department , in order to develop a prototype system using an expert system shell , followed by a wider interview survey involving several local authorities to corroborate the initial findings and further refine the system .
6 We warmly welcome the duty being placed on local authorities to recognise the offshore impacts of coastal developments and vice versa .
7 In general , the voluntary organisations and some health authorities believe that hospitals should simply close their doors , thus forcing local authorities to provide the essential services in the community and the government to find the cash .
8 There was a natural pressure for the newly created local authorities to adopt the highest standards provided for particular services in any of the former smaller authorities within their boundaries .
9 Erm , the code does have the force of law , er , and requires local authorities to adopt the new capital accounting system from April nineteen ninety-four .
10 But although the Ministry has shortened the fishing season a little , licences are still issued allowing local boats to continue the sand-eel fishery .
11 Kenya could encourage further ‘ dependent ’ exports , or it could provide assistance for local producers to gain the necessary skills .
12 The spatial modelling approach uses the local spaces to represent the physical arrangement of primary points within each component and then employs the associative procedures to establish and maintain their geometric assembly .
13 A UDC would undermine the ability of the elected local councils to implement the 1976 Docklands Strategic Plan , which had been agreed only after many years of discussion and debate ( Leaders of the London Boroughs of Greenwich , Lewisham , Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets , 1979 ) .
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