Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] local " in BNC.

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1 Barry Jones boiled over when he saw 63-year-old Vera brewing up for a local hospice on her day off .
2 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 .
3 They anticipated a number of significant developments which subsequently took place , like the setting up of a local authority for the Western Isles which has had a stimulating effect on the whole life of the area .
4 This will be followed , in due course , by a further three-quarters of a mile of track , a run round loop and the construction of a platform at the River Avon , allowing passengers to enjoy the walk , boat trips , riverside pubs and a possible link up with a local country park .
5 A research institute has teamed up with a local college to offer joint degree courses .
6 While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports .
7 LUXEMBOURG : Sign up with the local JobCentre equivalent , l'Administration de l'Emploi , whose branches are listed in the phone book .
8 thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council .
9 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 ?
10 I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’
11 The " Wildlife Enhancement Scheme " , which is to be trialled in the Culm Measures of Devon and the Pevensey Levels of Sussex , will offer annual management payments in return for agreement from landowners/occupiers to manage the land for conservation , on the basis of a plan drawn up with the local English Nature officer .
12 Five of us met up in a local pub afterwards and only one of us was still married .
13 She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat .
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 Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle .
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press .
21 In the past , a notice was usually put up in the local police station .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Philip Swallow finds the VC 's memorandum , its envelope still unopened , at the bottom of his In-tray , trapped between the pages of a brochure for Bargain Winter Breaks in Belgium which he had picked up from a local travel agency some weeks ago .
26 The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary .
27 It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows .
28 Right , I 'll , what I 'll do I 'll try and pick up on the local electrician or something .
29 ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said .
30 It is up to the local Education and Business Partnership to establish a management structure for Compact .
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