Example sentences of "[adv prt] by local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN application for outline permission to erect a detached house at 90 London Road , Holybourne has been turned down by local planners . |
| 2 | A sunshine holiday , with exotic food washed down by local water can leave an unwelcome souvenir — the disease hepatitis A. Not life-threatening , but with nasty symptoms and a recovery period of up to 80 days , guaranteed to tarnish the holiday memories . |
| 3 | Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’ |
| 4 | It said that far too many teachers had the perception that unless they followed the good practice set down by local authority advisers , their career prospects in the city would be blighted . |
| 5 | Mother and Father , through their church , were arranging for Jewish children to be taken in by local families . |
| 6 | Today saw the first of four weekly auctions , and five tons of holly and mistletoe were brought in by local farmers . |
| 7 | In rural districts the banks ' main purpose was the receiving of bills brought in by local traders and farmers . |
| 8 | The government 's policy was formally one of ‘ Ulsterization ’ , namely allowing a wide range of local programmes and policies to be taken over by local leaders . |
| 9 | From today , the way we care for others who are less able will be taken over by local councils . |
| 10 | ‘ The stories of my people go beyond oppression and the degeneration of society , ’ Mr McKay added , citing recent occasions in Canada when aboriginal communities have asserted their rights over ancestral land which was destined to be taken over by local developers . |
| 11 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 12 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 13 | When they began to dig up waste land on St George 's Hill in Surrey , they were driven off by local farmers , who almost certainly included small peasants angered at the usurpation of their common rights . |
| 14 | The Kiplings owned both places — and Low Birk Hatt in the early days of course — so they were well off by local standards . |
| 15 | In the eastern provinces , where there were well-established traditions of kingship , many surviving dedications were made up by local communities who likened the reigning emperor to a god . |
| 16 | Apart from small orders , usually of nuns , set up by local bishops for local needs , religious orders have always had considerable independence from the bishops . |
| 17 | ‘ Hygienic milk depots ’ were set up by local authorities ( the first in St. Helens in 1899 ) to provide sterile milk for bottle-fed babies , although the standard of hygiene even of this milk was sometimes dubious . |
| 18 | In 1968 an urban programme was established under the Home Office , and over the years several thousand small-scale projects , put up by local authorities and voluntary organizations , were approved for capital expenditure . |
| 19 | Ministers are considering an embarrassing U-turn after two disastrous periods of consultation in which they were told that the lists , to be drawn up by local authorities , would cause blight on thousands of acres and hit land and property values . |
| 20 | Later , items prised away on doorsteps end up either in the Lanes — a cluster of antique shops with a bijou veneer , much frequented by visitors to Brighton — or , if they are not snapped up by local dealers , at markets in London . |
| 21 | This was taken up by local historians as an opportunity to highlight the indignity committed against the town and to use that as an excuse for Stamford 's embarrassing decline into a small provincial town the ‘ sleepy hollow ’ backwater of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | If Mr Benn is voted out it will reinforce Labour 's belief in wider use of ballots , rather than having polls stitched up by local activists . |
| 23 | The Christian communities ( Comunidades Cristianas de Base ) were initially small study groups set up by local parishes to discuss social problems and to try to find practical ways of solving them through community action . |
| 24 | What was most encouraging was the extent to which common goals and ideals were backed up by local collaboration and a significant amount of interaction at the field level ; what was most disappointing was that this continued to be overlaid by an enduring legacy of suspicion — even hostility — at more senior levels . |
| 25 | At The Moot , Downton , a remarkable garden has been rescued by a preservation trust set up by local people . |
| 26 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |
| 27 | The regional representative of Amnesty International , Peter Mills , will speak about and answer questions on the organisation and the work carried out by local groups . |
| 28 | But NCP claims the car park is closed because work carried out by local contractors to waterproof the top deck went wrong . |
| 29 | A national sample survey carried out by local amenity societies for the Civic Trust in 1976 revealed that , of 279 vacant sites , a third were owned by a local authority , and a further tenth by other public bodies . |
| 30 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |