Example sentences of "and [adv] the local [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented .
2 This history gave Tanzania a lingua franca ( kiSwahili ) which was common to most parts of the country , and so the local identity which comes from language runs in parallel with a national identity also based on language .
3 The pace and success of any rehabilitation programme , after a care order is made , are to be decided on by the local authority and only the local authority .
4 It will be held at Wallasey Town Hall next February and already the local authority has ensured several technical experts in an attempt to defeat the plan .
5 Visually and socially the local authority houses also had a decisive impact .
6 Ask your present landlord , and also the local authority or new town development corporation or any housing association in the area to which you want to move whether they know of any tenant who wants to move to your area .
7 For most areas , and particularly for the smaller settlements , little work will have been done and here the local historian or archaeologist can easily add new sites and information to the record .
8 Neighbours and passers-by poured compliments on his handiwork , and even the local council 's parks department were impressed .
9 Boredom featured strongly in their account and even the local youth club , which they went to frequently , was not valued very highly .
10 Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market .
11 Mr Bradley called her miss , and even the local doctor called her Miss McCafferty whenever he had reason to talk to her about her charges .
12 Forming ourselves into a studio group for the purpose of the East End Open Studios meant tracking down over 55 possible participants , with tips from neighbours , friends and even the local milkman as to where they might be found !
13 The huts are predominantly in valleys near rivers , and invariably the local area was swarming with mosquitos .
14 Soon she came by the local gymnasium , and then the local Cedok tourist office , and from there she turned into a part which she was growing more familiar with , and in no time found she was back in the colonnade area .
15 ‘ He was screaming at me , ‘ Get outta here , my son 's in Vietnam ’ and then the local sheriff came in and he shouted that his son was in Vietnam and why was n't I in Vietnam ?
16 It seems to me that it is then a matter for the local plan to erm promote or decide erm a more de probably more detailed list of lo c locational criteria , and then the local planning authority considers erm the alternative locations following public consultations and possibly invite erm schemes at that stage .
17 By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister .
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