Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] local " in BNC.
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| 1 | A £2,000 reward had been raised by local people after the killings for information leading to those responsible . |
| 2 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 3 | Ancient customs such as ‘ bundling ’ , intimate but fully clothed and ritualistic forms of petting , cuddling and courtship in bed , which had been policed by local traditions in rural society , continued into industrial society . |
| 4 | He added the scheme contravened existing structure plans and traffic risk fears had been voiced by local residents . |
| 5 | it was a symbol of the new mood in the country that ordinary people wanted to participate in politics whereas in the past protest had been expressed through local guerrilla risings and religious demonstrations . |
| 6 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |
| 7 | Complaints had been received from local residents that their wash-houses were being abused , and he expected that by the end of his beat at 6 a.m. he would be busy enough . |
| 8 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the Palm Beach County circuit court yesterday confirmed adoption papers had been logged by local lawyer Weston Sigmund . |
| 10 | It is widely believed that the conservatism of the farm worker and his attachment to traditional styles obliged manufacturers to continue to produce the same wide range of designs as had been produced by local smiths in the pre-industrial period . |
| 11 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 12 | The " vast majority " of such attacks , however , had been committed by local groups based in Turkey , Greece , Lebanon and Peru , with no known links to Iraq ; in only one attack , in Manila on Jan. 19 [ see p. 37938 ] , had there been a direct connection with the Iraqi government . |
| 13 | Fifty-four members had been returned to local councils while in certain local authorities , notably the Rhondda Urban District , the Communist vote had approached that of the Labour Party . |
| 14 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |
| 15 | Days before the explosions the water company had been told by local people of the strong smell of gas in the district , but it had not ordered an evacuation . |
| 16 | Laos radio reported that , on Aug. 25 , 1989 , 68 " fully armed exiled Vietnamese reactionaries " of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN — see pp. 32674 ; 33154 ; 35902 ) had been captured by local militia while crossing from Thailand into Laos . |
| 17 | This did not mean their parents had happily shelled out the £2,000 for the trip — many had been sponsored by local firms and one girl had taken out a bank loan . |
| 18 | Lothar Späth resigned as CDU Minister President of Baden-Württemberg on Jan. 13 following allegations ( which he denied ) that a number of his and his family 's vacations had been financed by local companies which were then favoured when contracts were awarded . |