Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for the local " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often local pubs serve as a base for the local community : as Neil Richardson pointed out in CAMRA 's Pub Preservation report of 1980 , ‘ The pub is first and foremost a social centre , the best ever invented … |
| 2 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 3 | Erm when one of our friends , who was a writer for the local press , headlined it , The cutter who walked a thousand miles together , before he got called up . . |
| 4 | He was also carrying an orange poster on a pole , urging a vote for the local Liberal Democrat candidate . |
| 5 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 6 | Towns could take some space at a normal street comer to give ‘ more chance to be seen and to see others ’ ( a ) ; or could create a vest-pocket park ( b ) ; or a play area ( c ) ; or an island in a cul-de-sac for the local children ( d ) . |
| 7 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 8 | Married kid , torn stump of a ticket for the local Oddfellows ' hop , letter in her bag threatening her if she does n't leave another bloke alone . |
| 9 | Grandad had been a gardener for the local Big House . |
| 10 | The purpose-built building will become a facility for the local community and for all in need . |
| 11 | The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils . |
| 12 | ‘ No one trusts her motives in suing the district , ’ says a spokesman for the local parent-teacher organisation . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the local NRA said : ‘ Another downpour could send the rivers over the top . ’ |
| 14 | A spokesman for the local council 's education committee said : ‘ We have issued guidelines to schools on equal opportunities with regard to their legal obligations . |
| 15 | A spokesman for the local authority employers said the rise was ‘ significantly lower ’ than those for teachers , police , the Armed Forces and nurses . |
| 16 | A spokesman for the local Catholic bishop , insisted : ‘ No such complaint has been made to him and if you have any information he will investigate it . ’ |
| 17 | A spokesman for the local authority employers said the 4.9pc rise was ‘ significantly lower ’ than the average level of pay rises across the whole economy . |
| 18 | Local people say the village is a terminus for the local bus company and a halt for ramblers , and pub landlords are also concerned about under age users of their toilets . |
| 19 | This is not to deny of course that there were some who saw housing inequalities and poverty unescapably linked to underlying economic and class structures , but essentially nineteenth-century public regulation of the environment was a matter for the local amelioration of a particular problem . |
| 20 | He explained that the appointment and dismissal of teachers was a matter for the local authority alone and that the board had no authority other than to help supervise the ‘ educational efficiency ’ of the school . |
| 21 | That must be a matter for the local authorities . |
| 22 | No because I think that is a matter for the local planning authorities in their their local district wide local plans to look at the the way in which they wish to meet the particular totals for their individual districts . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The reason I draw attention to this guidance is that it draws what I think is a crucial distinction for our purposes here today , between the need to assess at the structure plan level the need for a road proposal and in paragraph five thirty one , a clear statement there that consideration of environmental impacts in relation to where the road goes , is a matter for the local plan . |
| 25 | Mr Deputy Speaker my honourable friend is right that the allocation of budgets is a matter for the local authority and that is a matter for public debate er in the council chamber . |
| 26 | Donaghadee 's Gerry Bell won the prize for the best out of state angler , making it a hat-trick for the local club . |
| 27 | Press reports varied as to whether the new committees were Fatah-inspired or organized by the PFLP and DFLP , but it appeared that they would be a forum for the local response to the ongoing peace process . |
| 28 | Then I said I was here with the family and she announced she was having a party for the local English , ‘ a rather disgusting barbecue ’ which she knew young people liked , and she supposed we 'd better come along . |
| 29 | If you 're gon na wait three days at a time for the local copper to turn up , |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a time for the local authority , community and club to work together in partnership . ’ |