Example sentences of "local [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local resorts wanted the respectable if unrestrained reveller . |
| 2 | If inspection is handed over to companies such as Coopers and Lybrand — to consultants — there will be no corps of people at local level to produce the necessary data . |
| 3 | Several towns in the valley have textile industries which started when water wheels were used for power and local sheep provided the raw wool . |
| 4 | They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats . |
| 5 | In August 1763 Mason and Dixon signed an agreement with Thomas Penn and Frederick Calvert , seventh Baron Baltimore [ qq.v. ] , hereditary proprietors of the provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland , to go to North America to help local surveyors define the disputed boundary between the two provinces . |
| 6 | Whilst retaining the right of local authorities to allocate the overall block between individual programmes , block spending grants were now related to ‘ optimum ’ levels of expenditure , with financial penalties imposed on errant authorities . |
| 7 | Friends of the Earth is urging local authorities to use the new laws as a means of prosecuting polluting dump sites . |
| 8 | The introduction of local income tax would allow local authorities to undermine the budgetary plans of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 9 | In this way local authorities became the only publicly elected bodies for the area having accumulated all the powers of ad hoc bodies . |
| 10 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 11 | The main method of investigation will be a series of interviews with senior development control officers from one local authority planning department , in order to develop a prototype system using an expert system shell , followed by a wider interview survey involving several local authorities to corroborate the initial findings and further refine the system . |
| 12 | Senior also differed from his colleagues with respect to the larger and smaller councils that would complement the local authorities providing the main services . |
| 13 | ‘ We welcome its recommendation that the government should undertake an extensive programme of monitoring ‘ ton ensure that local authorities have the necessary resources to fulfil their new responsibilities ’ . |
| 14 | Steel can be extracted magnetically from waste , but only one in 10 local authorities has the necessary equipment . |
| 15 | Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do . |
| 16 | We warmly welcome the duty being placed on local authorities to recognise the offshore impacts of coastal developments and vice versa . |
| 17 | In general , the voluntary organisations and some health authorities believe that hospitals should simply close their doors , thus forcing local authorities to provide the essential services in the community and the government to find the cash . |
| 18 | Erm , the code does have the force of law , er , and requires local authorities to adopt the new capital accounting system from April nineteen ninety-four . |
| 19 | Local authorities blame the federal government for not giving them enough money to do the job . |
| 20 | In the 1980s many local authorities faced the opposite kind of dilemma . |
| 21 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 22 | The Kurdish delegates , to underline the point that they too are Iraqi , speak up against any violation of sovereignty ; they may also be proposing that the Kurdish guerrillas be somehow absorbed into the Iraqi armed forces as a local militia protecting the autonomous zone . |
| 23 | The difference between the two local evening papers in the numbers of the local cases reaching the national dailies is probably a chance fluctuation . |
| 24 | While they were finding out what progress was being made , an English born local journalist suggested the local police could be out of their depth dealing with a murder . |
| 25 | Miss McIntosh said it was also essential contractors dredging local channels used the retrieved aggregate on Essex sea walls rather than transport it to coasts elsewhere in the EC . |
| 26 | A significant proportion of local notables joined the popular revolution in order to master anarchy : this was to be the classic pattern of revolution in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | The local Conservatives bought the old Organist House in 1930 , and apart from holding the odd meeting , they have n't used the building much and it 's now derelict . |
| 28 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |
| 29 | But although the Ministry has shortened the fishing season a little , licences are still issued allowing local boats to continue the sand-eel fishery . |
| 30 | If there are no institutionalised support systems , particularly in relation to adoption , can the family , friends and local community help the black adolescent to overcome these difficulties ? |