Example sentences of "local [noun pl] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ stringer ’ is n't just a freelance — it 's a correspondent based away from head office whose local contacts give him an on-the-spot usefulness which far surpasses that of a reporter sent out from head office . ’ |
| 2 | Many bureaux rely upon local solicitors to give free advice sessions at the CAB on a monthly or bi-monthly basis . |
| 3 | Essentially it rationalised the various local acts giving power to stop and search for dangerous weapons , etc . |
| 4 | They allow local authorities to give advanced planning permission for specified types of development within defined areas . |
| 5 | Over the past hundred years , various pieces of legislation , from the 1882 Married Woman 's Property Act , which gave married women the right to hold their own property , to the 1980 Housing Act , which makes it mandatory for local authorities to give married couples joint tenancies , the property rights of women both in the public and private housing sectors have been gradually extended ( Brion and Tinker , 1980 ) . |
| 6 | Eventually a secretive 1930s Ministry memorandum enabled local authorities to give advice , initially on medical grounds only . |
| 7 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 8 | Good practice requires local authorities to give full consideration to the views of parents and children when deciding whether or not to offer day care services to children in need ( Guidance , vol 2 , para 3.5 ) . |
| 9 | A transport survey in 1988 showed that only 19 local authorities gave free travel to older people , 265 made a charge or issued limited value tokens , and 30 made no concessions at all . |
| 10 | of local authorities gave evidence of evictions . |
| 11 | That , that 's open to the general public but where I stand you have to have a membership card to go in there now , and er you pay two pound before the season started and er local traders give you a discount and things erm it 's just one way of er segregating the supporters if you like , but there does n't seem to be so much trouble since they 've done this , but at the same time there does n't seem to be as much atmosphere |
| 12 | Be that as it may , the local kids gave that poor old man a helluva time . |
| 13 | Have local managers given consideration to the ways of minimising the effects of unexpected absence among staff ? |
| 14 | New age travellers have lost their battle to force local councils to give them camp sites . |