Example sentences of "local [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1920s the activities of birth control groups ensured that the matter was openly discussed , the matter being almost a compulsory subject for discussion in the local meetings of the Women 's Section of the Labour Party . |
| 2 | We must distinguish at least three cases : first , where unions are prohibited or repressed ; second , where official government or company unions are permitted ; third , where genuinely independent unions actually operate.6 While most TNCs in most countries will follow the local rules regarding the unions , host governments , particularly in export processing industries ( not always under pressure from foreign investors ) , have suspended national labour legislation . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher attempted to justify the exclusion of local authorities on the grounds that left-wing city councils persistently refused to co-operate with private industry . |
| 4 | Perhaps more importantly , the government has backed away from declaring more UDCs partly because of the costs and adverse publicity but also because it can achieve its aim of driving local authorities into the arms of the private sector by other means . |
| 5 | Yet a crucial side-effect of the UDC programme has been to push hard-pressed local authorities into the arms of the private sector without the problems and costs of UDCs rebounding on the government . |
| 6 | From the commencement of this Act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to superintend , and promote the improvement of , the public library service provided by local authorities in England and Wales , and to secure the proper discharge by local authorities of the functions in relation to libraries conferred on them as library authorities by or under this Act . |
| 7 | I wonder , he 's no doubt aware of the quite serious problems facing the South Wales police and the funding of the local authorities of the police . |
| 8 | The correspondence of these measures with the Bains recommendations gave , perhaps , a false impression of the commitment of the new local authorities to the principles involved . |
| 9 | Head teachers may find it helpful to consider the format now being commended by some local authorities to the officers responsible for the preparation of the committee reports . |
| 10 | Neither achieves greater accountability of local authorities to the voters , in spite of claims made for the CC … |
| 11 | The party was thought to wield considerable influence through local mosques , and was reported to have distributed water free of charge in poor urban areas and to have provided considerably more assistance than the local authorities to the victims of a double earthquake in the coastal resort of Tipaza in October ( see also below ) . |
| 12 | Here , however , the roles given to the local authorities by the Acts of 1902 and 1918 left scope for innovation where money allowed . |
| 13 | ‘ This rather formal approach contrasts neatly with the more informal approach generally adopted by central governments in their relations with local authorities in the years up to 1979 ’ . |
| 14 | The Urban Programme consisted of grants and initiatives under the 1969 Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act , which was intended as a flexible instrument to provide supplementary help to local authorities in the fields of housing , education , and health . |
| 15 | They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way . |
| 16 | He 's also pleased that the centre is now the base for several local groups including the Women 's Institute , the WRVS lunch club , a mother and toddler group , and the ‘ hobby horse ’ club for eight to twelves which attracts over 20 on a Friday evening for folk songs and dance . |
| 17 | The pair are looking to businesses and local traders in the areas they are running through to offer support , either by making direct or sponsored cash contributions , or by donating equipment . |
| 18 | It is experienced by the narrator as a place where he , the cultivated , Portuguese-speaking , well-read foreigner , must tread with care ; an old man , who is paid to sing typical local songs for the tourists , recognizes the narrator as something different from them but also as different from himself : |
| 19 | Volunteers can also be contacted sometimes through the local authority social services department , and the local branches of the Women 's Royal Voluntary Services , the National Council of Social Services , Age Concern ( Old People 's Welfare ) and the National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants , whose addresses can all be found in the telephone directory or at the Public library . |
| 20 | The local branches of the miners ' union set up soup kitchens , with much local help from butchers and shopkeepers . |
| 21 | ( You may wish to exclude sparsely populated local areas on the grounds that they do not qualify as towns . ) |
| 22 | The VHF transmitters allow scientists to track local movements of the broods within the oil field . |
| 23 | Despite its lack of press interest , from its beginning the lift attracted a regular supply of local visitors at the weekends . |
| 24 | They were armed with thousands and thousands of signatures they had collected from their parishes and their local communities in the weeks leading up to the lobby . |
| 25 | Beat bobby Dave Peacock , 35 , and parents on Middlesbrough 's Thorntree estate have formed the CrossTree Youth Group to keep local youngsters off the streets and out of trouble . |
| 26 | ‘ Regionalism ’ also meant the presence of local notables on the companies ' boards , sometimes bringing finance with them , as in the case of Lord Derby , chairman of TV , and sometimes prestige , contacts and local influence . |
| 27 | His 1938 Tiger Moth seems to be busy all the hours God gives , taking tourists into the open-cockpit air , aerobatting those who want , or simply showing the local sights to the others , with white silk scarves fluttering around their helmeted and goggled heads . |
| 28 | Beyond these lies an archipelago of small regional or city broadcasters which range from dubious one-studio enterprises in the Sicilian hinterland to smartly presented local stations in the cities . |
| 29 | Exchange controls are already being eased : Pakistanis can now operate foreign-currency accounts in local banks with no questions asked . |
| 30 | Presumably , like Warwick before him , Gloucester developed connections with local families like the Stradlings of St Donat 's . |