Example sentences of "member [prep] [art] local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sympathetic members of a local education committee could often be usefully approached : many of them kept special surgery hours for such consultations . |
| 2 | On this ground the proceedings of the licensing court were either reduced , or the pursuer 's averments were held relevant , in the following circumstances : when two of the members of the court had been employed by the applicant as part-time barmen for a number of years , without remuneration apart from money gifts at holiday periods : McDonald v. Fin lay ( supra ) ; when three of the members of the court were shareholders , and one was a director , of the company owning the property for which the certificate was sought , and when that company was closely allied with another company , the officials and directors of both being the same persons , on whose behalf the certificate was applied for : Blaik v. Anderson ( 1899 ) 7 S.L.T. 299 ; when a member of the court had recently been a shareholder of the company on whose behalf the certificate was applied for , and he had on previous occasions himself been the applicant on the company 's behalf , he being an avowed and pledged advocate of the company : Ower v. Crichton ( 1902 ) 10 S.L.T. 271 ; when members of a court had , in their capacity as members of a local authority , and with a view to street improvement , taken an active part in negotiating the purchase of licensed premises from brewers , who agreed to pay a sum of money to the local authority if a new licence were obtained for other premises , such as the subject of the application : R. v. Sunderland JJ. [ 1901 ] 2 K.B . |
| 3 | Members of a local action group say this is n't good enough . |
| 4 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 5 | They reported on discussions with the Directorate , heads of departments and central services , the Academic Board , the governors and members of the local education authority : ‘ the visiting party believed that the Polytechnic had made real and substantial progress and had felt that there was a different atmosphere from that encountered by the visiting party the previous year . |
| 6 | These last were elected by all ratepayers including women , who could also be elected ; in addition to , electors had a cumulative vote with as many votes as there were members of the local board . |
| 7 | A forgotten lithograph , the Hounds , the Hunt Servants and members of the local Hunt ( numbered for identification ) still hung on a wall , stubbornly reminiscent of better , or anyway , different times . |
| 8 | There were 24 regional duty solicitor committees , whose functions included those of deciding at which courts duty solicitors should be in attendance , and establishing and appointing the members of the local committees . |
| 9 | If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed . |
| 10 | Finally , the high turnover at the polls might be indicative of changes in the local population , or prudential calculations amongst particular electors as to whether it was worth one 's while trying to exercise one 's right to vote ( on the logic that people will not bother to turn up to the poll if they believe their preferred candidates have no chance of success ) ; it could equally well be indicative of various forms of electoral manipulation and influence , such as the artificial creation of new electors , the ability of returning officers to prevent one side 's supporters from polling , or the ability of some members of the local elite to " persuade " electors not to register a vote in opposition to their wishes . |
| 11 | Those detained in Navarre and said to be members of the Vizcaya commando included two leading members of the local branch of HB , Juan Carlos Pérez Ojuel and Rosa Mari Echave Díaz . |
| 12 | As the track is used by horses , members of the local branch of the British Horse Society were also involved . |
| 13 | Members of the local communities concerned , including farmers and landowners , are afraid that national park management would restrict both present and future activities on land within park boundaries . |
| 14 | Perhaps these people feel , as do members of the local communities , that the coastline would not be in such urgent need of ‘ protection ’ were it not for the imminent threat of creation of a housing development , larger than the existing village of Dirleton , adjacent to it . |
| 15 | He received numerous other threats and was often followed by men he could identify as members of the local Treasury Police ( part of the security police ) . |
| 16 | She could n't ever see the village letting the tradition die , especially when the younger members of the local families were so keen . |
| 17 | According to Mustafa Dzhemilev , leader of the Crimean Tatars ' Majlis , 600 members of the local militia on Oct. 1 forced their way into the Krasnyy Ray settlement near Alushta ( where returning Tatars had started work independently on the construction of a camp after waiting in vain for local authorities to allocate land for the purpose ) , injuring several residents and arresting 26 . |
| 18 | They , they are entitled , if they elect to do so , to continue to be members of the local government 's evaluation schemes , so they are eligible and have applied for membership on it . |
| 19 | The relaunch was attended by members of the local business community , Resort 's City advisers and representatives of the hotel and travel industry . |
| 20 | Members of the local authority are set to review their links after a South African delegation , on a fact finding mission to the North-East , were refused a meeting with council leaders . |
| 21 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
| 22 | The chairperson adjusted the microphone The assembly whispered into silence : she welcomed everyone , introduced the people on the stage , including two members of the local Trades Council who had helped sponsor the meetings , and introduced the evening 's main speaker , Lesley Wright . |
| 23 | His family believe that some of his assailants were members of the local police . |
| 24 | Secretary Mick Hodgson said more than 90 members of the local farming community attended a meeting with district councillors in Ireshopeburn but there was not one voice in support . |
| 25 | It was their synagogue not only by religious right , as members of the local community , but because the Cohen family had , very largely , been the driving force behind its foundation and continued expansions through the years . |
| 26 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 27 | It was , for example , a National Front meeting in Southall Town Hall on St George 's Day 1979 that sparked off the clashes between police and members of the local community during which Mr Blair Peach was fatally injured ( NCCL , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | The broadest range of participants was invited , including teaching staff , support staff , PTA members , school governors and key members of the local community as well as a range of observers . |
| 29 | We have heard many more such stories , evidence of a continuing brotherly regard for chimpanzees among the older members of the local community ; it causes great concern to them , and to us , that many of the younger members take no interest in these traditions . |
| 30 | Health agents are members of the local community who are trained to provide preventive and simple curative care as members of the primary care team . |