Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by local authorities " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this latter example suggests , there is also a wide and varied range of trading activities carried out by local authorities ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 2 | Politicians are elected on party manifestos which have , increasingly since the Second World War , contained social policy commitments that must be carried out by local authorities but are often contentious . |
| 3 | That is why we are consulting on our proposals for extending compulsory competitive tendering to professional and technical services carried out by local authorities . |
| 4 | Recently the government has started to implement policies which extend this principle to many of the services carried out by local authorities and by health authorities . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |