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

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1 The administrative burden would be lifted from local government ; it would then be able to concentrate on the job in hand .
2 They 'll be lifted from local papers .
3 Within a year the fundraising campaign , which included selling note cards and T-shirts , had been completed , much of the money having come from local businesses and foundations .
4 Their outward appearance gives no hint as to the wealth of amazing finds that have come from local beaches in the past .
5 Initial funding had come from local businessmen and delegates — mostly businessmen themselves — from a dozen countries had paid their own air fares and hotel bills .
6 A lot of support has come from local firms and from individuals like electricians and plumbers , said Mrs Coates .
7 The thatch , which is marsh reed harvested from local wetlands , is tied on to this .
8 This list of companies ranged from local miners to multinational giants .
9 As sheriff of Oxford and Buckingham from 1308 to 1310 , forester of Whittlewood Forest in Buckinghamshire from 1308 , constable of Oxford castle from 1311 to 1321 , and steward of the royal household from 1311 to 1325 , Richard moved from local administration to the centre of power and may have been responsible for introducing Roger to royal service .
10 Birmingham was quite independent of the party and as late as 1929 was not afraid to show its independence : in that year Neville Chamberlain complained bitterly when he discovered that the Party Chairman had written to businesses in Birmingham for contributions to party funds , for this was regarded as poaching from local preserves .
11 The most common colour is solid dark red and the breed originated from local red-and-white Breton cattle ( such as the Breton Red Pied and possibly the Froment du Léon ) crossed with Durham Shorthorns from 1840 .
12 The first Plan indicated that about 60% ( 800 casualties ) of the target reduction may be expected from local authority initiatives and 40% from changes in legislation , improved vehicle design and heightened public awareness .
13 The critique , the first such assault on Mr Zhao 's record in several weeks , focuses on the policy of allowing factory directors greater freedom to run their business without meddling from local party cadres .
14 You also get more control and benefit from local bank contacts as well .
15 But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control .
16 In Kiev information collected from local hospitals by Greens , showing high rates of infant mortality , were not checked against statistics in similar cities elsewhere in the Soviet Union .
17 READERS fascinated by Mike Benton 's article ‘ The age of the rhynchosaur ’ ( 7 April , p 8 ) will be interested to learn that Warwickshire Museum , Warwick , has some splendid fossil remains of the beasts collected from local quarries .
18 Accounts of protest meetings , demonstrations , strikes , beatings , killings , riots and the reactions of the authorities to such incidents will be collected from local archives , oral histories , and publications .
19 First , education in state schools ( the largest component of local expenditure ) was moved from local to central government .
20 She now wishes to investigate whether the level of stability changes in the six months after children are moved from local authority homes to foster parents .
21 In houses built from local materials , furnished in traditional ways by country craftsmen , the imagination sought to rediscover a way of life in harmony with the human community that produced it : ‘ In these English farms , if anywhere , ’ E. M. Forster writes in Howards End ( 1910 ) , ‘ one might see life steadily and see it whole … connect without bitterness until all men are brothers .
22 ADVERTISEMENTS Some thirteen million lonely hearts or companionship-seeking advertisements appear in the United Kingdom every year , in publications ranging from local newspapers to national magazines and covering all age ranges .
23 Obtain advice and support from local contacts in the Anonymous Fellowships , including the Family Fellowships .
24 College design and technology teacher Bill Greenwood said : ‘ Our success in this field is largely due to frequent help and support from local industry , for which we are always grateful . ’
25 Despite all the apparent difference of contemporary design and culture , everyday experience is increasingly detached from local cultures and social relations .
26 All road users will benefit from local safety schemes ( LSS ) and other action plans through the identification of accident clusters which are susceptible to AIP procedures .
27 Their achievements , such as wage rises and the setting of minimum wage levels , were not won through class struggle , but received as favours from local government in the expectation of their political support in return .
28 ‘ It has grown from local roots , with local volunteers and funding which makes it responsive and resilient .
29 Despite press coverage of closures and cut-backs , real and imagined , there was no mention of the dispersals , or of the more worrying phenomenon of the general dissolution of libraries that seemed from local evidence to be taking place .
30 He quotes from local antiquarians and contemporary records ; ‘ Alexander Brodie of Brodie , the Laird of the lands adjoining the Barony of Culbin , kept a detailed diary throughout the years from 1651 until 1680 , when he died .
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