Example sentences of "[det] local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remained loyal to Harley until the bitter end , though his own influence in the administration was dwindling , lost all offices except a few local honours at the Hanoverian succession , and more or less retired from active politics to follow his mild interest in antiquarian matters and his somewhat keener passion for the refinement and embellishment of his country seat at Margam . |
| 2 | A few local lines were built first , and then a larger company stepped in with a grand strategy to create a trunk route and compete for valuable traffic . |
| 3 | This byroad was formerly the main highway ; it is now little used although it is kept in good repair to serve the few local farmsteads . |
| 4 | It 's Tuesday , so no , no doubt you 've got a few local games on the cards ? |
| 5 | One of the few local contestants was at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 6 | King comments on the effects in Kenya ; his remarks would apply with few local variants to nearly all the countries visited in our survey : |
| 7 | It is not known whether all the material will be permanently exhibited , because South Cambridgeshire District is one of the few local authorities in Britain not to have a local museum . |
| 8 | Few middle management have direct experience of the service , need has not been quantified nor fed through to planners , very few local authorities have involved parents , let alone clients . |
| 9 | A few Local Authorities are experimenting with new types of recycling schemes to encourage a greater reduction in the amount of refuse put into landfills . |
| 10 | The prevailing public view of homosexuality as obscenity is bound to encourage anti-homosexual groups and individuals to test Section 28 , and few local authorities would be keen to challenge the difference between ‘ intentional ’ and ‘ unintentional ’ . |
| 11 | The Home Secretary , Sir John Anderson , suggested that this should be a general measure , but few local authorities saw the need to exert themselves . |
| 12 | Very few local authorities responded to these recommendations and of those that did a number are in the process of returning to the five to eleven pattern . |
| 13 | Although few local authorities have written special needs policies and written commitment to integration , nevertheless ‘ on the ground ’ practitioners test out its viability by placing pre-schoolers with assessed special needs in education and social service nurseries , and in playgroups . |
| 14 | ‘ Few local authorities have assessment procedures properly in place , ’ said Alison Chesney , director of the Cranstoun Projects . |
| 15 | During the early 1980s a few local authorities began to extend the tendering process to other local services . |
| 16 | A few local authorities established school treatment clinics staffed by salaried doctors . |
| 17 | The housing problem had improved little since the 1890s , although a few local authorities , notably the LCC , had taken advantage of the legislation of 1890 and 1900 to build the first large council estates . |
| 18 | There seem to be quite a few local authorities with difficulties over barrier designs , and certainly we , as cyclists , come across more ‘ bad ’ barriers ( require dismounting ) than good . |
| 19 | Mintel reported that few local authorities were planning to improve the provision of recycling facilities , as required in the 1990 Environment Protection Act , mainly due to lack of money . |
| 20 | Being one of the few local boys who had gone to grammar school had given him that extra confidence early in life . |
| 21 | But so few local breeds had undergone any kind of specialized breeding to improve the stock , and the Western animals had to attempt to catch up with their long-established and highly pampered Oriental counterparts . |
| 22 | Since Torbay and North Devon had developed very few local services and did not have the capacity to take back their patients from Exminster , some ‘ enablement ’ programme for such local services would have to be devised . |
| 23 | Make no mistake , there are many who believe ( again not without considerable self-interest , that the serious business of running airlines should be left to a few major carriers — except , perhaps , for a few local services . |
| 24 | Very few local buses . |
| 25 | The resultant exports are , however , dependent upon the multinationals ; relatively few local suppliers have yet broken out to provide an independent , though necessarily volatile , supply capability . |
| 26 | Thank you Chairman , as er members will know there 's an experiment at Felixstowe where a few local members and the |
| 27 | In 1912 , C. D. Paterson of Manly in Australia returned from Hawaii with a heavy redwood board which a few local bodysurfers tried in vain to ride . |
| 28 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |
| 29 | It has often occurred in the fields of social security and local government , in which the few local authority victories in the courts have proved extremely short lived . |
| 30 | ‘ Very few local access roads have been treated along their length ; where through traffic needs to be discouraged , treatment has mainly been directed at the access points to the local residential area . |