Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] by local " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Today saw the first of four weekly auctions , and five tons of holly and mistletoe were brought in by local farmers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | These were ruled over by local " sheiks " , who in turn were often vassals of more powerful kings . |
| 8 | What was most encouraging was the extent to which common goals and ideals were backed up by local collaboration and a significant amount of interaction at the field level ; what was most disappointing was that this continued to be overlaid by an enduring legacy of suspicion — even hostility — at more senior levels . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During 1976 the Firefly 's Rolls-Royce Griffon XII was worked on by local aircraft engineers and they managed to get it running again . |