Example sentences of "[noun] at the local " in BNC.

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1 With an ability to take a hardcore hip hop track and make the curly-permed DJ at the local disco understand it , Cook became the pop rap remix king ; an indispensable link in the chain that brought Brooklyn to Basildon and Basingstoke .
2 But there were not many opportunities for the son of a bricklayer to take up writing and at 14 he began work in the parcels department at the local Co-op .
3 The difficulty we all share is how can one construct a planning framework which allows for strategically significant inward investment to be accommodated without declaring an open season of speculative proposals from developers and uncertainty at the local level up and down the county .
4 I 'm also working with the kids at the local YMCA , linking their activities to the church .
5 An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event .
6 This gives the client a mention or two of his product name and , to the listener , it sounds as if it is a live interview at the local radio station .
7 The omission of the second ( the social/economic system ) leads to a purely technocratic and physical study of the processes of soil erosion and perhaps the immediate land-uses leading to it , without any analysis of other political economic relationships at the local , regional and international scales which determine the actions of the land-user in the affected area .
8 In order that the relationships at the local interacting level can be handled in the easiest manner , all local levels are defined as hierarchical sub-spaces of the main reference domain .
9 THE wound response of several plant species involves the activation of proteinase inhibitor ( pin ) genes and the accumulation of pin proteins at the local site of injury and systemically throughout the unwounded aerial regions of the plant .
10 Research rather suggested that there often seemed to be a dual political system of interests , action , and demands at the local level .
11 And , thirdly , he presented the notion that this increasing state intervention and action at the local urban level inevitably ‘ politicizes ’ the provision of collective consumption and leads to the development of political activity expressed as ‘ urban social movements ’ .
12 At the same time , local government and even more directly administered or corporatist elements of state action at the local level ( DHSS local offices , Manpower Services Commission , Health Authorities ) are , as Goodwin ( 1986 : 3 ) puts it , ‘ important in administering and implementing locally the decisions reached in central government , where weaker and subordinate groups are not dominant ’ .
13 A few days later Terry 's brother asked Mary to act as stand-in pianist for three months at the local Baptist church where he was a member .
14 It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight .
15 To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level .
16 ‘ My parents would n't let me leave school , so I got a daily paper-round and weekend work at the local timber yard .
17 An even easier victory followed , at Moy , nine miles [ 14 km ] short of Inverness , where the prince was staying the night of 16–17 February at the local big house , Moy Hall .
18 The event is also designed to continue the process of follow-up to WACC 's international Congress in the Philippines ( 1989 ) , which called on communicators to ‘ enter into a new phase of dialogue with related organisations and all people of good will to achieve a common understanding of communication in the service of free , just and peaceful communities at the local and international levels . ’
19 The political-economic structures behind the range of choices is the next necessary analytical step and opens up wider concerns at the local , national and international level .
20 Brought up bilingual in English and Yiddish , young Molly made her stage debut in an English-language variety act at the local nickleodeon when she was five .
21 On the one hand a series of publications demonstrated to planners at the local level why they should adopt the approach of restraining traffic and how they should put such plans into practice ( figure 5.3 ) .
22 When Andy was fifteen years old he began working during his vacation periods at the local driving range near Bushey in Hertfordshire collecting practice balls .
23 I was then put on a waiting list to see the back specialist at the local hospital .
24 After all , it was one of the aims of the quota legislation to foster an industry that could promote Britain just as American films promoted America and , with only ten British films a year grossing £100,000 at the local box office , the financiers backing British film companies began to push for expansion .
25 Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother .
26 Too powerful for the technicians at the local radio station .
27 After the near-fatal accident to the young Celia Carrow , Freddie Nash went back to London , managed to persuade the girl at the local off-licence to let him have some bottles on account , and got drunk .
28 ‘ I got to know one girl at the local teacher training college , and now if she is n't available she puts me in touch with one of her friends .
29 If Balbinder was bussed to Cedars every day she would be effectively cut off from any real involvement in her children 's schooling , and from an important part of her own role within the community as the mother of a young child at the local school .
30 Much of this citizenly activity will take place at the local level .
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