noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
borough council
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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inner
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There is, too, a grant to assist inner London boroughs taking on education powers.
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New legislation may allow inner London boroughs to take over education, perhaps on a piecemeal basis.
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The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs .
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Between 1971-8 and 1978-84 the largest upward shifts in rates of population change all occurred in Inner London boroughs .
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And riders are also being asked to tell council leaders what they need in Britain's biggest metropolitan borough , Doncaster.
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Sixty years later Camberwell was a metropolitan borough whose population had multiplied more than six fold to 259,339.
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The metropolitan boroughs also vary in size with a minimum near 200,000.
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Somewhat more of a variation occurs if we examine the eight capped metropolitan boroughs .
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Of the 19 LEAs involved, 12 were metropolitan boroughs and 7 were counties.
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London boroughs spent more than other metropolitan boroughs, which in turn spent more than county authorities.
rotten
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In fact they became the rotten boroughs of later centuries.
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council
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The borough council recognises that its newer cemeteries such as Acklam and Thorntree are in need of attention.
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The park, once the home of the Gladstone family, has been given over by the borough council .
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District and borough councils will become wholly responsible for cleaning all roads except motorways.
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Darlington borough council is to be approached for a donation.
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The borough council publication centres on the City Challenge scheme and the Environment City award.
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A year later he switched to Labour, and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council .
councillor
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A recent report by borough councillor and community health council chairwoman Eleanor Young made the point clearly.
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And a report to Darlington borough councillors says the plans could affect small housing developments to the south of Court Arcade.
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The Sainsbury plans have received wholehearted support from borough councillors anxious to attract a prestigious development to the Grange Road site.
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In Great Britain there are some 20,650 district and borough councillors and some 4,100 county, regional and islands councillors.
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Darlington borough councillors heard the two-storey extension at Walworth Castle Hotel would not affect the ancient part of the building.
county
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This was followed by the Local Government Act 1888 which established county councils and county borough councils.
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The three main county boroughs were to be retained and five counties were to replace the existing thirteen.
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First, there is the problem of the former county boroughs .
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Counties and county boroughs became responsible for child care under the 1948 Children Act.
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The county comprised four districts based on city regions surrounding the former county boroughs of Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham.
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They were to become boroughs with the status of counties - or county boroughs.
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Among county boroughs the range was also extreme: Canterbury had only 33,000 souls while Birmingham had 1. 1 million citizens.
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Middlesbrough had been joined with five neighbouring local authorities to form the county borough of Teesside.
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the borough of Brooklyn in New York City
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A spokesman for the borough engineer's department said the matter would be looked into.
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Bimpson recognised a business opportunity when he discovered that the government had secured domain names for all the schools in his borough .
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Croydon is indeed a borough fortunate in its parliamentary representation.
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Furthermore, a temporary local heroin drought was created in the borough .
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I walk the boundaries of the borough every day and I have dowsed these lines many times.
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Many of those boroughs also have the worst housing, longest waiting lists and highest poverty levels of the country.
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The dreams of nineteenth-century poets polluted the psychic atmosphere of the great boroughs and suburbs of New York.