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

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1 The organisers say kite-flying is a green sport and the event ties in with a workshop course run for local schoolchildren on the arts and the environment .
2 These are mostly run by local authorities , but some are privately owned and/or denominational .
3 The majority of crematoria are run by local authorities .
4 About 250,000 people live in residential homes , which are run by local authorities , charities or private companies .
5 Their advice follows a decision by John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , to delay proposals for a national appraisal scheme , run by local authorities under strict guidelines .
6 There was very much a ‘ municipal ’ theme to our function this year as we celebrated the contribution made to civilisation by car parks run by local councils .
7 At present , many residential homes for adults run by local authorities have over 25 residents , whereas it is felt that no residential homes should have more than twenty-five places and that it would be much better if the average size was much lower .
8 These areas are dependent on South Africa economically , and are run by local political élites dependent on South African support , frequently with corrupt administrations .
9 Other groups run by local authority health or social services departments may be in conjunction with a day centre , where elderly and disabled people can spend one , two , or even more , days a week .
10 The first race was run by local lads — miners from the surrounding pits — but not including Amos and Fred who must have thought better of it !
11 However , the playgroup run by local parents had not been the success for Balbinder that we had hoped .
12 We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked .
13 That was the first of many abscondings from establishments which were run by local authorities .
14 These classes are usually run by local midwives , health visitors , or within the local health centre , or by the National Childbirth Trust .
15 Some homes are still religious and dependent on the church , some are run by local authorities , and others are a combination of both .
16 City centre lodging houses and ‘ casual wards ’ run by local authorities housed many thousands of vagrants at night , but during the Second World War , when work became plentiful , the numbers dropped to a few thousand .
17 Quite separate and distinct , so we are told by the professions concerned , are the pre-school facilities run by local education authorities-nursery classes .
18 It was a combination of pressure from the Consumers ’ Association ; the introduction of more consumer protection legislation ; the injection of national government funding and the reorganisation of local government in 1974 that led to the establishment of some 110 Consumer Advice Centres run by local authorities by the end of 1976 .
19 YTS programmes are run by local managing agents — employers , FE colleges or voluntary organisations set up by LEAs — and have been monitored and partly financed by the Training Agency ; the rest of the costs of the training programmes are to be met by contributions from local employers .
20 He said : ‘ Asians want a local station run by local people .
21 In Sudan , for example , farmers wanting to sell their animals are charged Sudan 8 ( $3.20 ) per head of cattle in markets run by local municipalities .
22 Is he aware that when the hospital becomes a trust it will make even more rapid progress being run by local people for local people ?
23 Municipal theatres , which are an essential part of arts provision in this country , are funded and run by local authorities .
24 The Labour party is always huffing and puffing about privatisation and independence , but it believes that every school in the country should be run by local councils and inspected by those councils .
25 First , the Secretary of State told the Committee and the House that the new form of community care , which will be run by local authorities , would have the extraordinary advantage that people in the locality who knew the scene would make the decisions .
26 Often , too , we used to go on the ARP bus , a sort of fishing club for fire fighters in the Heeley Green area of Sheffield , run by local cutler George Sadler .
27 Courses are also run by local authorities around the country , and private training agencies and college courses are available .
28 There will be those who just can not get into gear , who will watch the private sector take over many of the functions which have been , previously been run by local government .
29 The Bill which had its second reading yesterday would bring in compulsory competitive tendering ( CCT ) for the management of houses currently run by local councils .
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