Example sentences of "a local authority " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help — when it was finally arranged — was not enough . |
| 2 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help when it was finally arranged was not enough . |
| 3 | Generally , a local authority will aim to cover the full cost of fees and a living allowance ‘ although this can be subject to your personal circumstances and will vary depending on whether you will live with your parents during term time , or in rented accommodation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It may also be possible to claim damages against a local authority for negligently failing to ensure that construction work complied with the relevant building regulations . |
| 6 | In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war . |
| 7 | Here too the emphasis was on the susceptibility of the ‘ innocent ’ to the specious ; section 28 of the Local Government Act 1987 — 8 states that a local authority shall not |
| 8 | Consequently , it is not unusual for a local authority to confer a fire resistance capacity of half an hour on an unprotected cast-iron structure . |
| 9 | The council argued that a landlord , particularly one such as a local authority , can not realistically be expected to have a system of inspection of all its premises and in practice is entitled to depend upon notification by its tenants . |
| 10 | It was surely repugnant to commonsense that in this area of legal activity a local authority should be prosecuted by one of its tenants without first being given the opportunity by that tenant to remedy the consequences of a neglect to repair the dwelling that the tenant occupied . |
| 11 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |
| 12 | Only 8 per cent of people owning privatisation shares alone rented their home from a local authority or housing association , compared with 6 per cent of those owning other shares , although 25 per cent of the sample were such tenants . |
| 13 | A few may flourish the 14 pages of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , 1970 ; seven inches of section 2 specifies a local authority 's obligation to lay on just about everything short of a course in elephant skinning : meals , education , holidays , telephones , and recreation are all there in paragraphs ( a ) to ( h ) . |
| 14 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 15 | There would be an MP from each of the three parties , a token Welsh and Scottish member , an employers ' representative and one from the trade unions , an economist , a social worker ( ‘ preferably a woman ’ ) , a local authority representative and two members nominated by the Commonwealth and colonial secretaries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For example , if a local authority is apathetic about the European Community and the single market of 1992 , they can effectively stifle interest and ensure a low turn-Out for a European election . |
| 18 | The Oxford-educated daughter of a Norfolk farmer , she began her career as a local authority education officer and inspector of schools , married a headmaster she met on site — he is now an education administrator — moved on through the ranks of Norfolk County Council and chaired Norwich Health Authority . |
| 19 | They anticipated a number of significant developments which subsequently took place , like the setting up of a local authority for the Western Isles which has had a stimulating effect on the whole life of the area . |
| 20 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |
| 21 | The emphasis lies in the area for which a local authority may be held accountable : the quality of care it provides . |
| 22 | Roger Fuller has held research posts in universities , a local authority and the National Children 's Bureau . |
| 23 | If an individual claims to have suffered injustice because of maladministration by a local authority , the Commissioner for Local Administration may investigate the complaint on his behalf . |
| 24 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 25 | A ‘ tougher ‘ form of protection for an area containing many buildings of historic interest , perhaps with particular features typical of the locality , comes when a local authority ( with confirmation from the Department of the Environment ) makes an Article 4 Direction . |
| 26 | A local authority that has no previous experience of serving Repairs Notices can be encouraged in two ways . |
| 27 | Your project may even qualify for a local authority grant ! |
| 28 | You may even qualify for a local authority grant ! |
| 29 | A newly retired further education teacher who had worked for both the Home Office as a prison instructor and for a local authority as a teacher of technical subjects , applied for two part-time jobs . |
| 30 | So said the Court of Appeal in Dobie v Burns International Security Services ( UK ) Ltd ( 1984 ) , a case in which the employer 's services were governed by a contract with a local authority that gave the council the right ‘ to approve or otherwise the employment or continued employment of any member of the company ’ . |