Example sentences of "[verb] at a local [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three weeks after I started looking , I came upon an advertisement for a receptionist to work at a local authority office building , not too far from my new home . |
| 2 | Utilising at a local level the dynamic model of the building process developed at macro level by the Building and Civil Engineering Economic Development Council ( see ‘ How Flexible is Construction : a Study of Resources and Participants in the Construction Process ’ NEDC HMSO 1978 ) the research is intended to provide a detailed profile of the construction industry into the counties of West Glamorgan and Dyfed . |
| 3 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 4 | We recognise that the bulk of actual recruitment spade work will be done at a local level , but , apart from a few heroic efforts , the branches were not up to it . |
| 5 | Last night the old campaigner Benn was at an end of election meeting at a local community hall ; tonight there is a post-count tea with sandwiches . |
| 6 | They found themselves among a throng of about 10 at a Workers ' Revolutionary Party meeting at a local community centre . |
| 7 | Finally , a good deal of inquiry is made at a local level by local authorities or local voluntary bodies attempting to assess a particular problem in the immediate area . |
| 8 | Such questions would need to be studied and evaluated at a local level . |
| 9 | This means that there are a number of intermediaries between original producer and eventual buyer , as in the case of the box of foreign-made chocolates bought at a local retailer by a housewife . |
| 10 | If directives are not being enforced at a local level , the EC market will remain unfair . |
| 11 | Organic activity is closely related to climatic controls , but vegetation type also varies at a local scale as a result of topographic factors and soil properites . |
| 12 | AN ULSTER teenager was in a spin last week after prematurely celebrating winning a brand new car in a prize draw at a local disco . |
| 13 | Julie , who taught at a local school in a notoriously rough , tough area of the city , shrugged her shoulders . |
| 14 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 15 | A woman staying at a local hotel returned to find her room ransacked and another motorist had her car broken into . |
| 16 | We rubbed shoulders with a bride and groom at a local wedding , as anyone was allowed to wander round the church while the marriage was going on ( it was a tiny church ) . |
| 17 | However , compulsory education in Britain is essentially provided at a local level and the number of pupils at a particular school can be subject to rapid fluctuations as a result of factors such as changing economic circumstances or new housing developments . |
| 18 | Guests can enjoy trips to local beauty spots , dancing at a local hotel , and visits to local theatres . |
| 19 | Sheila Baughan , who worked at a local school , was found holding a telephone . |
| 20 | The Registrar is usually found at a local authority office and is the person responsible for the registration of births and marriages as well as deaths . |
| 21 | All excess grass was dried and cubed at a local factory with the cubes forming an important part of the winter diet . |
| 22 | Even she was surprised at Gedge 's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him . |
| 23 | Have your eyelashes dyed at a local beauty salon and then you can simply forget about them all summer . |
| 24 | She also took to pastry-making , which she continued to practise at a local confectioner 's when she returned to Epsom in 1854 , though her family thought this to be ‘ ultra modern and not quite nice ’ . |
| 25 | For Green , the proposal of the Cambridge Board had major implications at national level and he sought to arrive at a local compromise to prevent a more widespread set of problems for the WEA . |
| 26 | A further element of contrast built into the research is that it will explore how inter-agency policies are negotiated and enacted at a local level , in a small number of tightly defined neighbourhoods which will be chosen in such a way as to reflect demographic variations , differences in housing stock and employment , varying local crime rates , ethnic diversity , and other relevant factors . |
| 27 | Well , I mean you may be right I ca n't be I 'm not I 'm not absolutely certain myself but er it would be nice to think that we were represented at a local authority level , yeah , by different cross-sections of our community . |
| 28 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 29 | Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level . |
| 30 | Wendy had worked at a local hospital as a clerk in medical records before giving up work to look after her children . |