Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [vb pp] local " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the prayers the curandero ritually burns coca leaves on the fire and everyone leaves the enclosures for a feast of specially prepared local food . |
| 2 | The agreement committed signatories to exchange hostages , lift roadblocks , disband armed formations and hand over illegal weapons , under the supervision of specially formed local commissions , by Aug. 3 . |
| 3 | The details of this highly publicised scheme are well documented ( eg Challis , 1988 ) , its main features being : the employment of social workers as case managers , with case loads of 25 to 30 dependent elderly people , and with control over a decentralised budget to enable additional facilities or care ( in the shape of specially recruited local helpers ) to be purchased over and above the receipt of normal services . |
| 4 | This ‘ reputational ’ methodology asked ‘ expert ’ panels of well informed local people to select the ‘ real ’ or the ‘ top ’ leaders out of a list of civic leaders in important local organizations . |
| 5 | The site of maximally changed local blood flow was found to be in area 44 . |
| 6 | In the early 1980s , the Metropolitan police installed Divisional Information Officers to monitor the rise and fall of ‘ tension indicators ’ ( e.g. violence or abuse towards police officers , increasing numbers of complaints against the police and a decline in public co-operation ) in specially targeted local communities and report their findings to the Central Information Unit within the Metropolitan Public Order Branch ( Lloyd , 1989:273–4 ) . |
| 7 | Boys and girls under 16 are regularly bringing back medals from hard fought local contests . |
| 8 | British military forces would only be used to ensure the smooth transition of power to properly elected local governments , and to protect the newly independent states from external predators . |
| 9 | Beyond these lies an archipelago of small regional or city broadcasters which range from dubious one-studio enterprises in the Sicilian hinterland to smartly presented local stations in the cities . |
| 10 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
| 11 | Payment would be made only if the unemployment was involuntary ; disputed claims would be referred to newly appointed local committees consisting of representatives of capital and labour ; workers would be entitled to refuse work under conditions inferior to the norm for their occupation . |
| 12 | There will be numerous less expensive pieces for collectors , including the plainer wheel-locks , and also an intriguing group of guns by little known local makers , retained as Court gunsmiths by the family well into the nineteenth century ( est. ranging from £500–15,000 ) . |
| 13 | Under the 1976 Constitution legislative authority is held by the unicameral National Assembly of People 's Power , whose 510 members are indirectly elected every five years , most recently in 1986 , by popularly elected local assemblies . |
| 14 | Under the 1976 Constitution , legislative authority is held by the unicameral National Assembly of People 's Power , whose 510 members are indirectly elected every five years , most recently in 1986 , by popularly elected local assemblies . |