Example sentences of "[vb pp] for the local " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a label , Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market . |
| 2 | Lisburn Shopping Week 1930 ( BBC1 10.35pm ) a short , originally silent , film was made for the local picture house and has been preserved by the Lisburn Museum … |
| 3 | As we write , battles include a handsome Victorian set of stables in Enfield , Hertfordshire — a home for retired ponies which the local council wants to close ; Brocklesby railway station — a delightful example of a country station built for the local landlord but empty and decaying ; the grade II* listed Belgrave Chapel in Darwen , Lancashire , with its Gothic pinnacles dominating the town but under threat of demolition ; and the beautiful but overgrown park and gardens of Uffington in Lincolnshire , in danger of being smothered by executive homes , a golf club and a hotel . |
| 4 | The yearly event raises money for charity and this year £1,500 was raised for the local hospital , St Woolos ' appeal Surgery without tears . |
| 5 | Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific £300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice . |
| 6 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
| 7 | As well as the teeth being sold for ivory , the meat will be butchered for the local market , and turned into biltong ( dried meat ) for export , while the hide will be tanned for leather . |
| 8 | This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 . |
| 9 | They all belonged to golf clubs or sailing clubs , took their holidays abroad , and were devoted Masons ; two of them had stood for the local council . |
| 10 | Tithes of reed were reserved for the local priest on the Somerset Levels , and Chaucer 's monk cast an entirely practical eye on the local birdlife : ‘ he liked a swan best , and roasted whole . ’ |
| 11 | The monks of Battle usually ate the poorest meat from their own estates ; the best was sold to pay the recurrent costs of the abbey buildings and staff , and to run the hospital and almonry maintained for the local poor . |