Example sentences of "the local [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April , however , our colleagues on the lovely island of Arran managed to upstage their rivals who had featured in the local newspaper a few weeks previously . |
| 2 | ‘ If you submitted plans to the local council a great many people must know about them . ’ |
| 3 | That matter will be determined by the local council a week on Thursday . |
| 4 | However , on Dec. 1 an agreement was reached between the three coalition partners , two smaller centre parties outside the government and , for the first time , the FrP , whose bargaining position had been strengthened after its strong showing in the local election a week earlier [ see above ] . |
| 5 | For us , worship is merely our duty to respond to God 's love by a discipline which , for most Christians , amounts to one visit to the local church a week . |
| 6 | Suppose that he starts at the pole in Fig. 3.8 with the local vector a shown there . |
| 7 | We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach . |
| 8 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 9 | There were to accompany the army corps a number of shipwrights , caulkers , sailmakers and six hundred seamen , who [ would ] have settled at Cowes and Yarmouth for the winter , and built with the timber in the local yards a large quantity of gun-sloops … |
| 10 | Where odours arising from offensive trades are , however , in the opinion of the local authority a statutory nuisance within s.92 of the Public Health Act 1936 the local authority is under a duty to take action to seek the odour 's abatement and compliance with the byelaws bestows no immunity in respect of any action which may be taken using the statutory nuisance provisions , nor in respect of any action for a private or public nuisance at common law . |
| 11 | Where the local authority is to be required to adopt the roads , the developer will be given the alternative of either : ( a ) Depositing with the local authority a cash deposit covering the full estimated cost of the work . |
| 12 | A development study on the Cardwell Bay site commissioned by the local authority a year ago concluded : ‘ While the outlook from the bay at Gourock is a significant asset on a national scale , there is also an air of neglect in the area . ’ |
| 13 | The same dump , however , harboured 21 illegal tonnes of 7 per cent arsenic waste , a situation which had been revealed by the local paper a year previously , and then allowed to sit by local authorities . |
| 14 | There was a general feeling among the local community a few years ago that academic standards at the school had slipped , and many parents opted for other schools in the area for their children . |
| 15 | The celebration of feasts such as Easter , Christmas , Whitsuntide , Rogationtide , and the Harvest Thanksgiving gave the local community a much needed opportunity for a collective expression of its religious values . |
| 16 | If I can go onto the local theme a little , chair . |
| 17 | A real sparkler from David Penney gave the local derby a firework finish and the fairest result of all . |
| 18 | But local hoteliers are warning that changing the venue would cost the local economy a million pounds a year . |
| 19 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |