Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] local " in BNC.

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1 For England and Scotland , it was decided that the agency for purchasing development land should be local government ( thus avoiding the inter-agency conflict situation which arose between local authorities and the Land Commission ) .
2 Mike Queen , CCG director , said : ‘ As a company , we have a proven track record in providing a quality school meals service for local authorities across the UK .
3 The irony , however , is that in fact the new system is more likely to increase central control over , and funding of , local spending , instead of allowing for local variation , accountability and choice .
4 Local government expenditure also differs between local authorities : some spend more than others per head of population on particular services ( Foster et al .
5 When I asked about local amnesties , I was told : ’ It is for chief officers of police to consider whether offering opportunities for disposing of offensive weapons would be a worthwhile crime prevention initiative in their own force area . ’
6 In the next three years , 300 more local radio stations could be set up , catering for local tastes , to ‘ broaden the range of programmes available ’ .
7 The house is now a hotel , catering for local weddings and business receptions ; and the school sports facilities , including the covered pool , have been integrated as an attraction for people wanting an active weekend .
8 All the picturesque seaside towns with ruins of old castles or monasteries to visit , busy shops catering for local needs , and few tourists .
9 The vacuum created by the sudden termination of the Pacific War raised enormous questions on the combustible internal situation in the territories affected , on allied policies , and on the relationship that would exist between local representatives of the allied powers and their home governments .
10 Basically we we try to break down any barriers that might exist between local people and the training opportunities that do exist .
11 The largest proportion of funds is received through local authorities .
12 There were also some lines intended for local consumption : ‘ Higher petrol prices from the Liberal Democrats … that 's not gon na help a rural area …
13 A MODERN SEMI DETACHED PROPERTY PROVIDING SPACIOUS ACCOMMODATION AND CONVENIENTLY SITUATED FOR LOCAL SHOPS
14 Most were disposed of at the Investigation Officer stage , though an interesting innovation in 1989 , which is to be extended nationally , is local conciliation by experienced solicitors designated as Local Conciliation Officers .
15 It appears that some at least of the variation in the cyanogenesis polymorphism over the field can be explained as local micro-evolution in response to locally patchy selection .
16 This would , it was thought , avoid difficulties which might otherwise arise through local authorities failing to co-ordinate their activities , and it would also make the system more intelligible to the general public .
17 The second half of the 1970s and the early 1980s were dominated for local government by a series of changes in funding arrangements and rules on spending .
18 So had the provinces , which scarcely knew how to struggle for local political and cultural rights .
19 Even Smolenskaia derevnia , an organ specifically designed for local peasant consumption and far better attuned to Belorussian interests than Bednota , was criticized in 1923 for insufficient contact with village life .
20 Training goes outside the immediate geographical area and one-off courses are designed for local authorities and voluntary organisations .
21 The 1500 is also designed for local network consolidation , decision support and workgroup computing with 512Mb RAM , 21 disks , four SCSI channels and optional redundant power supplies .
22 The prudent escaped this fate , and their possessions showed it , not least in the wide range of glorious Elizabethan and Jacobean tombs scattered through local parish churches .
23 A purchasing plan constructed by the authority in close collaboration with the family health services authority is modified through local negotiation with practices .
24 These provide for local authorities to prepare both structure ( that is , strategic ) plans and local plans for the implementation of the strategy in smaller areas or for specific purposes .
25 The reliance of the government on untrained and largely unsupervised headmen undermined government policies which were formulated as if headmen would act as local bureaucrats .
26 The Regional Research Laboratories will act as local data libraries housing the most widely used national data sets .
27 In addition to the known central features at the systemic velocity of the galaxy ( corresponding to the velocity of its centre ) , there are strong redshifted features with intensities of about one-half or one-third of the main features at ( where LSR stands for local standard of rest ) and weak blueshifted features with intensities of about one-tenth at — 300 to -460kms -1 .
28 Further pressure should be brought to bear through local and national negotiation ma machinery .
29 The time has surely come for local authorities , at least , to develop and implement ‘ whole authority ’ policies and procedures on a range of topics , which would certainly include children with special needs and also child abuse .
30 What if , say for local example , the principal of the Glasgow School of Art , his leg broken while foolishly roaming the hills in the amateurish manner of town dwellers , and also brought half-dead to Castle Bewick should spy , carelessly hidden beneath a sofa-cushion , a drawing of such rare and touching brilliance that he too , broken leg notwithstanding , should limp forward , eyes blazing , the paper shaking in his hand …
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