Example sentences of "[v-ing] local [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , home owners are challenging local authorities ' proposed new contracts on the grounds that their terms are unfair . |
| 2 | There was a rapid increase in the number of primary school children , with very overcrowded primary classes , and governments pushed all the available teachers and capital into primary education , limiting local authorities ' right to provide nursery education even when they wished to . |
| 3 | The Home Office is advising the police to increase the number of officers while at the same time the Department of the Environment is capping local authorities ' spending . |
| 4 | Thus arguments for controlling local authorities ' spending would appear to weigh even less powerfully within monetarist theory than in Keynesian arguments . |
| 5 | Finally , the 1989 Local Government and Housing Act introduced a new system for financing and controlling local authorities ' capital expenditure . |
| 6 | The mission programme plays an important part in increasing local companies ' awareness of export potential and rewards . |
| 7 | Research on the involvement of disabled people in preparing local authorities ' community care plans in April 1992 illustrates some of the barriers . |
| 8 | The system of raising local authorities ' revenue by means of the rating system ( where the rateable value of property served as the basis for payment ) had been unpopular for many years . |