Example sentences of "the local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we examine the structure of the police in the 1990s , I hope that we shall see the need for a national police agency to deal with national and international crime , while preserving the important links through the local constabularies , because it is through the local police links with the public that crime is prevented . |
| 2 | And tourists do n't always want to hear the authentic thing , so the local musicians end up having to reflect their audience . |
| 3 | The local musicians who had been brought in to entertain us were not allowed to perform in the guest-house , so we provided our own ( less professional ) entertainment by singing and reciting poetry . |
| 4 | What I like about the system is that it does n't shout its presence to human interlopers : what do you do when your anti-predator device is preyed upon by the local villain ? |
| 5 | This occurred in Egypt and Asia , for instance , and the intention was to create a closed currency system whereby everyone entering the kingdom had to change their foreign coin into local coin and did not take the local coinage out of the country . |
| 6 | By the time Ceauşescu came to lay the foundation stone of the palace in June 1984 , its title had been changed from Casa Poporlui to Casa Republicii ( from the ‘ House of the People ’ to ‘ House of the Republic ’ ) just in case , the local jokers remarked , the people got it into their heads to move in as well . |
| 7 | I received a visit from the local polizei ’ |
| 8 | I think I 'm supposed to go and report to the local polizei tomorrow . ’ |
| 9 | The local oborknezovi were given greater authority , the rights of the Orthodox Churches were respected , and a local Serbian militia was permitted . |
| 10 | Thomas Hobbes was born near Malmesbury in 1588 , the son of the local vicar and his wife . |
| 11 | Packed meetings of BAND ( Billingham Against Nuclear Dumping ) were chaired by the local vicar and the group was supported by all the local political parties and MPs . |
| 12 | It was therefore entirely fitting that , in the celebrated Ealing comedy about the last age of steam , The Titfield Thunderbolt should be driven by the local vicar and fired by a visiting bishop . |
| 13 | A boatload of men came ashore to demand a ransom of 2000 guineas [ £2100 ] , or the surrender of the local vicar as a hostage , for not attacking the town . |
| 14 | Reverend Wrinklebottom — The local vicar , his wife disappeared in suspicious circumstances so it 's worth talking to him . |
| 15 | The local vicar and local MP Stan Crowther added their names to a petition of local worthies calling for the council to change its mind . |
| 16 | Their royal nextdoor neighbours simply fitted in to a social landscape of friends and acquaintances who included the children of the Queen 's land agent , Charles and Alexandra Loyd , the local vicar 's daughter Penelope Ashton , and William and Annabel Fox , whose mother Carol was Diana 's godmother . |
| 17 | He had sweet revenge with the unexpected help of the local vicar 's wife . |
| 18 | John Harlow , appointed in 1560 , was himself the local vicar and his candidature was approved by the parishioners ; when the Goldsmiths examined him , they declared themselves satisfied without noting his qualifications and without recourse to external referees . |
| 19 | These charities were originally administered by the Church or trustees appointed by the old vestry meetings , but with the Local Government Act of 1894 , they passed into the hands of the new parish councils , or such as still existed , for in 1893 , we find the local vicar complaining that most of the charities were dead and buried , and that Thomas Towers promised to give twenty shillings each Christmas Day , very kind of him no doubt , but unfortunately he left no provision for anybody to give it after he was dead , so that in his case he and benefaction are both dead and buried . |
| 20 | Even the local vicar was n't immune , the Rev. Bartley Trimble who was vicar of Halling for many years was known as " Baggy " . |
| 21 | The license is held by the local vicar , and part of the pub 's profits will go towards his church 's restoration fund . |
| 22 | The license is still held by the local vicar , although not for much longer . |
| 23 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 24 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 26 | I would be the first to admit that I was amazed , enlightened and then staggered by some of the intricacies of the local income tax a la the Liberal Democrats . |
| 27 | The likely unpopularity of the local income tax may explain resistance to this tax . |
| 28 | They might well prevail in any skirmish with the local forces , but in the circumstances that would be of little profit . |
| 29 | Unlike his predecessor , Avitus was a powerful bishop who managed to harness the local forces which Cautinus had signally failed to dominate . |
| 30 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |