Example sentences of "by [art] local [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women and girls who worked long hours , often by candlelight , to supplement the meagre incomes their menfolk earned as farm labourers , used wheat straw cut by hand by the local farmers , to prevent the stems being broken by machinery . |
| 2 | He would probably have got shop by the local farmers if he 'd been caught but er he used to go on these local fields and er and er sn snare rabbits you see , or get a rabbit . |
| 3 | The traveller is also liable to be bombarded with advertisements for global consumer goods placed by the local affiliates of the transnational advertising agencies . |
| 4 | Similar fates await buildings formerly owned by the secret police , which in many districts have been inherited by the local authorities . |
| 5 | But the system breaks down when a company has only branches in other countries , whose assets are often seized by the local authorities . |
| 6 | As a consequence of this the threat was lifted and an invitaion was extended to the Trust by the local authorities to undertake a long-term research programme . |
| 7 | The Department of Energy , for example , was responsible for providing an £80,000 grant to the Cornwall Energy Project ( CEP ) , a research group promoting the use of conservation and renewable sources of energy in the South-West peninsula , The CEP had in turn been requested by the local authorities consortium to provide evidence to the inquiry against the Electricity Board 's case . |
| 8 | At first , the parish was responsible for its poor , then came the union of parishes and then the Boards of Guardians followed by the local authorities ( county and county borough councils ) . |
| 9 | In 1904 , at a meeting in Glasgow , she had proposed the establishment of a national system of ‘ Educational Information and Employment Bureaux ’ to be run by the local authorities . |
| 10 | When she was rescued by the local authorities and given her present welfare flat , she asked that her address be kept a secret . |
| 11 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 12 | With so many sections refused in the Act and the various restrictions imposed by the local authorities , the B.E.T . |
| 13 | The expenditure required is borne by the local authorities and occurs because they do not have sufficient suitable housing in a state of good repair . |
| 14 | Joined by unemployed youths , their behaviour was labelled as ‘ riotous ’ by the local authorities who forbade putting up posters and other activities liable to ‘ disturb public order ’ . |
| 15 | A recently released consultant 's report commissioned by the local authorities declared that the arrival of the Llangollen Railway in Corwen would be the single most important factor in the economic regeneration of the town which has for so long lived in the shadow of Llangollen , ten miles to the east . |
| 16 | It shall be lawful for his Majesty to appoint a Minister whose duty it shall be to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose and to secure the effective execution by the local authorities , under his control and direction , of the national policy for providing a varied and comprehensive educational service in every area . |
| 17 | The Company might not even hear of a replacement until he had been " appointed " — unofficially , of course , by the local authorities , who continued to complain about the inadequate salary . |
| 18 | The port 's operations are subsidized to some extent by the local authorities but in the main the port is financed by port dues and this had led to a demand that any port land released for development should yield significant port use in order to generate revenue . |
| 19 | Accompanying this measure was a national scheme , operated by the local authorities , for rate-payers unable to meet a full rates bill . |
| 20 | Substantial proportions were provided by the local authorities and the Department of Industry , and the largest share of all , one-third , was accounted for by private developers ( figure 3.1 ) . |
| 21 | The range of substitute homes offered by the local authorities varies considerably and it is of course essential to try to match the different children coming into care to the most appropriate home . |
| 22 | It recommended a stronger role for local authorities coordinating a range of services provided by the private and voluntary sectors as well as by the local authorities themselves . |
| 23 | Up to the creation of the National Health Service in 1946 responsibility for the mentally ill and subnormal was carried largely by the local authorities , which ran hospitals and institutions for the mentally ill , and organized some care and supervision in the community for the mentally subnormal . |
| 24 | All that the legislation provided for was that any loss incurred by the local authorities , as a result of carrying out the regulations , would fall as a charge upon the Exchequer . |
| 25 | The bill mentions the amounts of the specific grants estimated to be received by the local authorities in your area . |
| 26 | They are not kept thoroughly clean , as they were when they were looked after by the local authorities . |
| 27 | You will look after the fast buck merchants who are waiting to come in to steal and cheat and to deal in a shoddy , grasping way with bus companies that have been made successful by the local authorities . " |
| 28 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 29 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 30 | Later in the same month , the DES published its Green Paper , Higher Education in England outside the Universities : Policy , Funding and Management , in which it presented two alternative models for a national body : what it called Model A , which was closely modelled on the one advocated by the local authorities on 15 July , and Model B , which was the one favoured by the DES . |