Example sentences of "[art] local [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people .
2 You 'll need two plastic buckets , a couple of pounds of ‘ pea shingle ’ from the local builders ' merchant and a few drops of rosemary oil available from health stores or chemists .
3 He then taught in a higher elementary school , but became critical of the local Bolsheviks ' lack of progress in educational and social affairs .
4 Married kid , torn stump of a ticket for the local Oddfellows ' hop , letter in her bag threatening her if she does n't leave another bloke alone .
5 As a result , microcomputers provide a realistic ( and extremely advantageous ) alternative to the local managers ' manual information system I referred to earlier .
6 The Reverend Hugh Ross was headmaster of the local boys ' boarding school in Meath .
7 The IRA threat follows hard on a little local sensation to do with the expulsion of eight pupils from the local boys ' Catholic secondary school , St. Columb 's , for drug taking .
8 The team , which was formed to join the local boys ' football league , also received footballs and two holdalls for carrying the strips .
9 Once upon a time that was just ‘ Paris ’ which , in dilute form , finally filtered down to the local ladies ' modes .
10 I arrived slightly early ; she was n't yet home from the local girls ' school she goes to , so Elaine and I drank tea and talked while we waited .
11 THE local artists ' exhibition which has been occupying Oriel Court , an empty office block on Omega Park , Alton , since March 16th , is to run for an extra week — until April 3rd — due to popular demand .
12 The tourist office and the local artists ' community are keen to promote art and there are often exhibitions of some art form in the theatre or the tourist office 's art gallery .
13 In addition , as the therapist had suggested , she had contacted the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to find out about evening classes .
14 She balanced these activities with what she was good at-dealing with the public and solving problems , skills she put to good use in her part-time work with the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau .
15 Many would-be claimants are so afraid of going into solicitors ' offices that they try the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau ( CAB ) first .
16 Teesdale district councillor Newton Wood , who is chairman of the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau management committee , has criticised fellow councillors for shaving £5,000 off £15,000 extra earmarked for the group by the finance committee .
17 Elizabeth Wills reported first on the local Mothers ' Union , now in abeyance , and then on the Scramblers group and deanery synod matters , while the final report came from Doris Martin on flower arrangements .
18 The young mothers take up the local authorities ' slack stock .
19 In Scotland , the local authorities ' auditors duties are contained in the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1983 All auditors of local authority accounts for periods commencing after 31 March 1983 are expected to observe the Standards for the External Audit of Scottish Local Authorities published by the Accounts Commission ( a similar body to the Audit Commission for England and Wales ) .
20 Clearly the departments intend to keep a check on how it is spent , and they can even check the local authorities ' own financial manoeuvres by the powerful instrument of loan sanction .
21 Central government , then , exercises considerable power , not only over the services it administers directly , such as social security , but also over those that are the local authorities ' own concern , such as education or personal social services .
22 Instead a growing number of elderly demented people were admitted because of the local authorities ' failure to provide alternative care .
23 The local authorities ' functions would be in the planning , coordination , regulation and finance of community care , rather than its direct provision .
24 This allowed the government to allocate sums of money to LEAs for particular educational purposes , thus reducing the local authorities ' control over how the block grant was spent .
25 The local authorities ' educational expenditure forms about 40% of their total expenditure ; it is mainly on schools .
26 As the 1988 Education Reform Act comes into effect , the local authorities ' share of educational expenditure is diminishing and will probably continue to diminish , though it is impossible to predict by how much .
27 In addition , the Act will reduce the local authorities ' control even over those educational functions and services that they continue to finance , as Local Management of Schools comes into operation ( see below ) .
28 Under the 1988 Local Government Finance Act , the local authorities ' money now comes from three main sources .
29 I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general .
30 Will my right hon. Friend arrange an early debate on education , and especially on the local authorities ' responsibilities and their relationship with Government in terms of school organisation , so that I may highlight the need for an early decision on proposals to reorganise schools in Ealing , where parents , teachers and children will be greatly affected by those decisions ?
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