Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] local " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Basically we we try to break down any barriers that might exist between local people and the training opportunities that do exist .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The Regional Research Laboratories will act as local data libraries housing the most widely used national data sets .
6 Making the assumption that such men have working-class occupations , Sullivan argues that the housing options for them are very limited after divorce , more limited than for women who , if they have been left as single parents relying upon state benefits for their income , probably will qualify for local authority housing .
7 Shouldering the gun in the sure knowledge that the Doctor would be seriously pissed off if she let it fall into local hands in this time zone , she drew the grenade from her pockets , and poked her head up just long enough to check the distance .
8 Accordingly , some of the rest of the ingot was made into knife-blades , but they did not appeal to local cutlers because they were hard to forge .
9 The first part of the research will focus on local authorities ' total expenditure , whilst the second principle objective of the research will be to investigate whether the reforms lead to a change in the pattern of service provision .
10 Ministers and perhaps civil servants may think of local authorities as useful agents for carrying out policies decided nationally in government departments and approved by Parliament .
11 Only one certainty remains : in future the great buildings of Sussex would be secular , and a new form of patronage would appear for local artists and craftsmen .
12 Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship .
13 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 .
14 Liberal Democrats will invest in local services to enable communities to thrive .
15 The process might result in local changes to the route .
16 Any threats which the incomers might present to local interests are underplayed .
17 It was used to argue that all members of the household should contribute to local revenue if they used local services .
18 of total local authority revenue and people on higher incomes will contribute to local authority expenditure much more through the taxes that they pay .
19 A Fed on assignment overseas with the ranking of Assistant Legal Attaché must always work through local law-enforcement agencies .
20 The official justification is that in Bali the company could work with local performers and learn to ‘ shift our centres of gravity away from the head , down into the centres of our bodies ’ .
21 Officials of the ODA will work with local health personnel and through groups like the Red Cross to identify hospitals and clinics which will made good use of the aid and ensure that it gets to those who truly need it .
22 Deputy leader and shadow Home Secretary Roy Hattersley said the party would work with local authorities and the police by modernising vulnerable estates , improving street lighting , demolishing derelict buildings and fencing off waste land .
23 But what impressed most viewers of the deliberations at Thomond Park was the crisp passing of the Garrowen backs when the opportunity arose for spreading the ball wide , something that does n't often occur in local derbies at Thomond Park .
24 Every one of us , we would n't devote our time , our precious time serving in local government if we did n't believe in local government and did n't want to provide the best possible services to the people of this city .
25 We have known for a number of years that we with every other council in the land , are facing the government that does not believe in local government .
26 The British Government does n't believe in local government .
27 Similar strategies have been pursued in most Western European and Australasian democracies for a longer period , notably in the UK , where limits on what parties can spend in local constituencies are remarkably stringent .
28 There was never much doubt about which language the colonial rulers would use in local administration .
29 Mr for the defendant effectively accepts that , but says that having regard to Mr er undoubted success in regard to provision of one to one assistance in relation to other children , some of whom are less disabled than Paul , that I should try and look to local authority will provide thirty hours assistance or thereabouts after say eighteen months and that therefore in this regard the defendant should pay for only one and a half years of er enabler 's time .
30 It can only work on local regions of the image and , moreover , in the real world the distribution of light intensity is two-dimensional rather than one-dimensional .
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