Example sentences of "[noun] at the local " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nearing my twelfth birthday , I was fortunate enough to secure a free place at the local secondary school . |
| 32 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 33 | His parents were delighted when Bill won the equivalent of an 11-plus place at the local grammar school . |
| 34 | Therefore , although the service sector may be the mainstay of rural employment , it has a very uneven spatial distribution at the local level . |
| 35 | David and his pals spent long summer days at the local swimming pool and they were out to impress the girls . |
| 36 | The manager of Goddards , ‘ Wiggy ’ Harris , had at one time been a teacher at the local ‘ School of Art ’ where his father Mr. Joseph Harris was Headmaster . |
| 37 | I 've had a letter from Mrs Duncan , a teacher at the local primary school , and she 's interested in leasing your cottage . |
| 38 | In giving his provisional ‘ No ’ , Mr Patten said : ‘ Only if Hampshire County Council and the districts address the issue of distribution ( of new houses ) together , and take account of opinion at the local level , are we likely to reach solutions which both meet the housing requirement and satisfy local environmental concerns . ’ |
| 39 | For example , inequalities of political power and access to land should not substantially weight the costs and benefits of conservation measures to or from particular groups or classes at the local level . |
| 40 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 41 | I also went to classes at the local clinic but they were a low-key sort of affair . |
| 42 | ‘ He was in residence at the local hall , ’ confirms Mitchell , ‘ because he was in bed with the cook . ’ |
| 43 | TULLYCARNET residents are invited to an information evening at the local primary school on Tuesday ( September 14 ) between 6–9pm . |
| 44 | And , in true dramatic irony , the most apt piece of rhetoric comes from Rita who could well be summing up the everlasting appeal of the Russell classic as she tries to tempt Frank out to an evening at the local theatre : |
| 45 | As an outcome of that meeting , home owners and managers were invited to attend an exploratory meeting at the local hospital . |
| 46 | Our lifestyles dictate that a weekly shop at the local supermarket will suffice , and therefore supplies must last until the next excursion . |
| 47 | It was a downmarket job ; he 'd report on reactions to his attempts to change a $1000 bill , sit in a lion 's cage at the local zoo , or clean windows on the twenty-eighth floor of a skyscraper . |
| 48 | I doubt either can afford to stay at a hotel and I know for a fact that they 're not at any of the local hostels ; neither , I have been reliably informed , have they put in an appearance at the local ‘ hippie ’ compound . |
| 49 | More passive , less constructive activity with little or no end result , will have been the norm , like watching television or having a pint at the local pub . |
| 50 | Occasionally Arthur would go for a pint at the local , but that was it . |
| 51 | I met Dr Johannsen , the senior therapist at the local hospital , when I was hunting for wood on the beach at Cator . |
| 52 | A race or two on prize day at the local school , modesty insisting on decent skirts and proper bloomers underneath them , was as much as the Irish girl was permitted . |
| 53 | Network theorists are interested in questions like which individuals conform most closely to group norms , who innovates and who resists innovation , and how changing social conditions at the local level — rehousing or factory closures for example — affect the group 's linguistic habits . |
| 54 | served to weaken the traditional view of town planning as a place-orientated , coordinating activity for corporate affairs at the local scale . |
| 55 | The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life . |
| 56 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 57 | The research seeks to quantify these changes at the local scale and assess their significance for population redistribution rates in order to gauge better the geographical implications of anticipated trends in population structure . |
| 58 | With trained hawks like these , that 's like a mother trying to put her teenaged son in a shopping trolley at the local supermarket ! |
| 59 | For , as we shall see , political practice and behaviour at the local level can vary widely , even with the same party in control of the council chamber . |
| 60 | At that time , sons of the nobility often started their education at the local school alongside boys whose parents were lower on the social scale and David attended Irvine Grammar School . |