Example sentences of "[art] local inhabitants " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here relationships between the local inhabitants and party members and agents will be examined without reference to Kursk , let alone to Moscow . |
| 2 | You will also tend not to feel tired by the time the local inhabitants are going to bed . |
| 3 | The Romans who settled on the banks of the Rivers Fleet and Thames , were not unopposed ; amongst other difficulties , they had to contend with Boadicea , the fierce lady leader of the local inhabitants . |
| 4 | ‘ The Works ’ — as we came to know the railway shops — provided most of the employment for the local inhabitants . |
| 5 | It seemed that the local inhabitants had betrayed their past for the sake of the fictitious glamour which the new name was imagined to convey . |
| 6 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 7 | The reappearance of the ill-fated train on the anniversary of the tragedy is not taken lightly by the local inhabitants and there are many people who will vouch for the authenticity of the phenomenon . |
| 8 | Expatriates may not adapt to the culture and so live in their own world entirely separate from that of the local inhabitants . |
| 9 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 10 | This initial stage was taken one step further in 1987 when the Association of Health for the People began working in the community and provided an analysis of the main problems that needed to be addressed , and suggested some solutions — all of which depended upon good communication between the local inhabitants . |
| 11 | His photographs of power station workers the so-called liquidators and of the local inhabitants , full frontal shots against a doomsday background , are printed on steel using a silver bromide process . |
| 12 | They worked diligently and enthusiastically but tended to be aloof from the local inhabitants . |
| 13 | Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops . |
| 14 | Vicki tells her that when the ship landed , the crew were invited to a meeting by the local inhabitants . |
| 15 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |
| 16 | Yet the picture that all this conjures up of a thin red , white and blue line defending civilization and the British sense of ‘ fair play ’ against serried ranks of black barbarians is suddenly counterpointed by an even more arresting image — that of the police themselves who are frightening the local inhabitants of Brixton by whooping like red indians , and beating on their shields like Zulu warriors . |
| 17 | It was called Kuznetsk ( ’ Smithtown' ) because the local inhabitants practised iron-working . |
| 18 | As Nancy led Molly into the garden she said , ‘ There are a whole lot of English people here , the local inhabitants . |
| 19 | Many arrive full of goodwill and good intentions , but fail to perceive the often unanticipated consequences of their arrival on the lives of the local inhabitants , and even an oversensitivity of the need to spread goodwill around the village can appear to the locals to be both patronizing and unnecessary . |
| 20 | If they respectfully withdraw from involvement in village affairs they find themselves branded as ‘ stand-offish ’ or ‘ jumped-up ’ ; if they participate fully in the life of the village they are accused of ‘ taking over ’ and of telling the local inhabitants how to run their own community . |
| 21 | In England the reaction of the local inhabitants has been generally less vocal and less publicity-seeking , but nonetheless hostile . |
| 22 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 23 | He resolutely refuses to give way to the temptation to blame the local inhabitants for their problems . |
| 24 | On the west side of the torrente was Parma Vecchia , old Parma , otherwise known to the local inhabitants as Oltre Torrente ( Beyond the Torrent ) or , in the dialect , Di là dell ‘ Acqua . |
| 25 | In 1642 he was appointed by the House of Commons to give a weekly lecture at Lewisham , Kent , but was obstructed by the vicar and some of the local inhabitants . |
| 26 | This was to ease the burden of the local inhabitants who before this had to rely on getting their water supply from wells , pumps and catchment tanks . |
| 27 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 28 | This in itself , however , will not guarantee success , because it is possible to live in an area and yet isolate oneself from the local inhabitants . |
| 29 | In their overseas colonies the Portuguese and the Spanish alike took vigorous steps to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity . |
| 30 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |