Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by local [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 2 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But NCP claims the car park is closed because work carried out by local contractors to waterproof the top deck went wrong . |
| 5 | As this latter example suggests , there is also a wide and varied range of trading activities carried out by local authorities ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That is why we are consulting on our proposals for extending compulsory competitive tendering to professional and technical services carried out by local authorities . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Campaign 's Project Grants Fund provides seed-corn funding to help with the purchase of tools and materials for practical environmental improvement work carried out by local volunteers . |
| 10 | AN application for outline permission to erect a detached house at 90 London Road , Holybourne has been turned down by local planners . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were in many cases cheered on by local bystanders . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Today saw the first of four weekly auctions , and five tons of holly and mistletoe were brought in by local farmers . |
| 18 | In rural districts the banks ' main purpose was the receiving of bills brought in by local traders and farmers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mother and Father , through their church , were arranging for Jewish children to be taken in by local families . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | From today , the way we care for others who are less able will be taken over by local councils . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Private Roger Morrison 's body was washed up on a Morroccan beach 10 days ago after his speedboat had been fired on by local police . |
| 30 | 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 . |