Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the local [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 2 | Jessica swam in and out of the local scene , and would be noticed , if not recorded . |
| 3 | Local management of schools , the opportunities to opt out of the local education authority system , and funding formulae dominated by per capita allocations come together to provide a force for the fragmentation of the education service rather than the more desirable decentralisation . |
| 4 | Mr Ridley may take the matter out of the local Council 's hands and decide the issue himself . |
| 5 | NEVIL MARTIN is back in business again after a debilitating illness ruled him out of the local tournament scene last season . |
| 6 | This has been taken out of the local economy in Notts . |
| 7 | A CLAIM by Borders Area of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland that Government cuts in hill ewe subsidy would take £120,000 out of the local economy in three valleys alone has been criticised by Sir Hector Monro , Scottish minister of agriculture . |
| 8 | ‘ She did n't look like one of the village matriarchs — she was quite small — ; but she might have been quarried out of the local slate . |
| 9 | Several manuals were published : prestigious journals such as Scientific American reported on the importance of earth as a building material ; and in Britain , in 1920 , the government built an entire village out of the local earth . |
| 10 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |