Example sentences of "[verb] by local [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1695 Election support for the war was the major national issue , but most election contests appear to have been dominated by local rivalries and concerns , and in fact there was relatively little controversial pamphleteering at this time , despite the recent expiry of the Licensing Act . |
| 2 | The National Water Authority 's flood defence committees , the bodies responsible for drainage , were found to be dominated by local farmers . |
| 3 | The opening of shops , for example , had been restricted in some municipal undertakings by pressure from Conservative town councils dominated by local shopkeepers who feared the competition . |
| 4 | When the film was made in nineteen forty-six leisure time was dominated by local dances , pubs and the Young Farmer 's Club . |
| 5 | Surrounded by local hardknocks , Bob Golden was the only gringo in a Taos , New Mexico , fleapit . |
| 6 | The ruling has been attacked by local shopkeepers and by a member of the town council . |
| 7 | A seed processing plant being built in India has been attacked by local farmers , protesting that foreign seed companies are " gene thieves " capitalising on local crops at the expense of those who grow them . |
| 8 | But the conservators say that since their membership is made up of people nominated by local councils , it 's wrong to say they 're undemocratic . |
| 9 | Reconstructions of events such as this , organised by local groups , encourage interest in local rest in local history and may yield new information . |
| 10 | A THREE-way debate between North Durham 's candidates , organised by local churches on April 5 , has been postponed . |
| 11 | However , ministers are not impressed by the democratic mandate claimed by local councillors . |
| 12 | The proportion of the housing stock owned by local authorities in England and Wales was ‘ 13 per cent in 1947 . |
| 13 | The second class of forests were those like Whittlewood , Salcey , Rockingham , Wychwood and Sherwood , where the soil was for the most part owned by local landowners . |
| 14 | Physically small , compact people ( but see above ) , they kept separate from their nearest neighbours , the North American forest Indians , maintaining a common northern culture varied by local customs and practices . |
| 15 | The " vast majority " of such attacks , however , had been committed by local groups based in Turkey , Greece , Lebanon and Peru , with no known links to Iraq ; in only one attack , in Manila on Jan. 19 [ see p. 37938 ] , had there been a direct connection with the Iraqi government . |
| 16 | The maintenance of bicycle facilities ( often forgotten by local authorities ) is essential to ensure continuing safety of cyclists . |
| 17 | They have been updated and supplemented by local authorities ' own guidelines , covering procedures , training and pupil-teacher ratios , ranging in Strathclyde 's case from 10-1 for easy hillwalking to 5-1 for walking on difficult ridges . |
| 18 | These are established through national joint councils , consisting of representatives of employers and employees , supplemented by local variations and agreements . |
| 19 | Despite these developments , charitable subscriptions supplemented by local appeals could not keep pace with rising demand and increasingly expensive treatments . |
| 20 | The postponement meant that such functions would be discharged by local officials who held office by virtue of their appointment by the government , and it was widely feared by the opposition that many would use their powers to manipulate the vote in an attempt to secure the return of the DLP . |
| 21 | Although the county possesses few equivalents of the great churches built by wealthy communities elsewhere in England , it has a wealth of small-scale buildings in a range of styles imported in the latest continental fashion and modified by local needs and customs . |
| 22 | He was educated by local schoolmasters and Baptist ministers . |
| 23 | Like many other provincials who took too many chances , he was pursued by local officials and , again like many before him , he was drafted into the army . |
| 24 | Downs and Titterton were interviewed by local police after the game concerning an alleged incident of inciting the crowd . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , increasing specialisation and complexity has meant that not all issues can be easily addressed by local councillors who are necessarily extraordinarily busy people by definition . |
| 26 | The aims of the research are : to undertake a wide-ranging review of the priority assessment techniques applied by local authorities to transport projects ; to apply a representative sample of the techniques to a common set of projects ; and to distill the experience gained through the first two stages , together with knowledge of recent developments in the theory and practice of multiple criteria analysis into a computer-based priority assessment package . |
| 27 | Backed by summary jurisdiction applied by local justices in the provinces and by the excise commissioners in London , its ability to secure conviction against evaders was , by eighteenth-century standards , astonishing . |
| 28 | I believe this can not be done by local authorities , however well meaning they are , nor by universities , however efficient , but only by voluntary bodies . |
| 29 | The NNDR is set by central government , collected by local authorities , and paid into a central pool . |
| 30 | But the plastics in the waste collected by local authorities tend to be dirtier and of mixed types , and the recycled product made from them is more difficult to control and guarantee , especially for applications that will be in contact with food . |