Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clear duties were imposed on local authorities to protect children and provide for their needs in certain circumstances . |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century limits were imposed on local borrowing to ensure that councils would not default over their debt liabilities , for any such default would have undermined financial confidence in public authorities and had a serious effect on rates of interest . |
| 3 | The dependency theorists logically identified the main distinction as being between the national bourgeoisie , whose enterprises were based on local capital and the comprador bourgeoisie , whose interests were tied to foreign capital . |
| 4 | Throughout the year the anxieties of the Party were focused on local workers and soldiers rather than on the surrounding sea of peasants . |
| 5 | one of the reasons for introducing the community charge that and it 's ironic that it was just possible , especially in nineteen erm ninety erm that the community charge was meaning wa was bringing about a change where people were voting on local issues , the prime local issue of course being what would be the level of the , of the community charge . |
| 6 | It is equally possible that these officials were billeted on local householders , a practice which became increasingly common among Roman army units in the late empire . |
| 7 | Mr Trew believes his crime was to go on local TV to protest about the grim prospects for his hospitals . |
| 8 | It was reported on local radio on May 23 that a commission had already been established to draft the rules and basis for the Democratic Constituent Congress . |
| 9 | Haslemere Group 's chairman was interviewed on local radio ; the Group sent 104 appeal letters . |
| 10 | The dinner was attended by 500 leading business and professional people from the North East and was featured on local radio and television , and in the local newspapers . |
| 11 | She went on to Newcastle , where Goodwin was speaking on local TV about the Dwarf , and she was selling the paper at the local anarchist centre , giving it away along the roadside . |
| 12 | And how did the aristocracy , whose economic power was based on local landlordship , participate in ruling the realm ? |