Example sentences of "up [prep] the local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the latter did keep shop , he might also double up as the local undertaker , as was the case in Essex between 1770–88 at Great Clacton , Thorpe , Toppesfield and Weeley , whilst the London precedent of upholders furnishing funerals ( in addition to their established role of auctioneers and general tradesmen ) was evident at Chelmsford and Halstead . |
| 2 | thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council . |
| 3 | If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ? |
| 4 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 5 | LUXEMBOURG : Sign up with the local JobCentre equivalent , l'Administration de l'Emploi , whose branches are listed in the phone book . |
| 6 | Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press . |
| 7 | Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle . |
| 8 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 9 | If a pregnancy is pre-marital , it trebles the relative risk of a couple ending up in the local authority sector rather than the owner-occupied one ( Murphy , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | This means that a higher proportion of children will be brought up in the local authority sector than figures for the distribution of tenure in their parents ' age-band would suggest . |
| 11 | Figure 7.6 shows that the average number of dependent children in the household is generally higher in the local authority sector , especially for young heads of household , but by the late forties , the younger ages of childbearing ( and the earlier leaving-home patterns of those brought up in the local authority sector ) mean that the values are very similar . |
| 12 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 13 | In the past , a notice was usually put up in the local police station . |
| 14 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 15 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 16 | Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city . |
| 17 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 18 | It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows . |
| 19 | Right , I 'll , what I 'll do I 'll try and pick up on the local electrician or something . |
| 20 | " Returnees " were told that they would be well treated on giving themselves up to the local authorities . |
| 21 | It 's Dundee and they 've asked me to transfer my medical records up to the local G P up there . |
| 22 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 23 | Mr Eggar , Michael Heseltine 's secretary , said it was up to the local management to press the case for the pit to stay open to the independent consultants reviewing the pit closures . |
| 24 | ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said . |
| 25 | It is up to the local Education and Business Partnership to establish a management structure for Compact . |
| 26 | I then thought of running up to the local police station , but I was worried that a train might have come . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ This outcome of this case will make people think , but it is up to the local councils to bring the cases . |
| 28 | In many cases public meetings are set up by the local Councillor , Community Council or local groups , and arrangements are therefore the responsibility of the organiser . |
| 29 | Our own central social services inspectorate will be not only carrying out its own inspections , but also checking on the quality and systems of the arm's-length inspectorates that have been set up by the local authorities . |
| 30 | We will decentralise planning decisions as much as possible , giving a key role to the local plan drawn up by the local authority . |