Example sentences of "service provide [prep] local " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the commencement of this Act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to superintend , and promote the improvement of , the public library service provided by local authorities in England and Wales , and to secure the proper discharge by local authorities of the functions in relation to libraries conferred on them as library authorities by or under this Act . |
| 2 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 3 | A local education authority must by law appoint a chief education officer ( Regan 1979:28 ) : the people appointed assume responsibilities within the major spending service provided by local government . |
| 4 | The level of service provided by local authorities is crucial . |
| 5 | Such closures should provide a source of staff , capital and revenue to support the development of the new pattern of health services , including community psychiatric nursing , for the mentally ill and perhaps help to support the development of services provided by local authorities . |
| 6 | The main services provided by local government were divided between the counties and the districts with the parish councils , where they existed , looking after footpaths , parish halls and similar ‘ parochial ’ matters . |
| 7 | These three themes of scale , single versus multi-tier , and the special problems of the conurbations will recur both in the following chapter and when we discuss the services provided by local government in more detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 8 | THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT |
| 9 | When considering the services provided by local government there are two major questions to be discussed . |
| 10 | The correct interpretation is to regard local government services as simply those services provided by local government in Particular circumstances . |
| 11 | Some of these questions will recur in the discussion section at the end of this chapter , and in later chapters on both intergovernmental relations and the services provided regionally , but for the present we will remain with those services provided by local government in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | After 1900 there was a dual development with regard to the services provided by local government . |
| 13 | Approximately half the total current expenditure on goods and services provided by local authorities goes on education . |
| 14 | There are several ways of analysing the services provided by local government . |
| 15 | Another way of distinguishing the services provided by local government is to group them according to certain shared characteristics . |
| 16 | The degree of control that local police committees can exercise over police activities is limited , however , by special provisions that separate the police from the rest of the services provided by local authorities ( Bell 1989:57 — 69 ) . |
| 17 | The services provided by local government originate in two ways . |
| 18 | Although the services provided by local government originate in these different ways , aspects of the same service may be considered from both points of view . |
| 19 | The services provided by local government are labour intensive and have fewer opportunities than other branches of the economy for introducing labour-saving equipment . |
| 20 | The amount against current expenditure final consumption includes all the goods and services provided by local government . |
| 21 | Despite these close connections with many of the services provided by local authorities , women are poorly represented both among councillors and senior officers . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , despite the advent of ‘ contracting out ’ , local authorities still carry out over fifty functions ; indeed , the average British citizen probably has more contact with the state through the services provided by local government than through the outputs of any other level of public administration . |
| 23 | What has proved to be a thorny problem , not just during the past four years but for many years before , is the basis for financing all the services provided by local authorities and the level of services that should be provided . |