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1. A year or so after the event on the street corner the government proposed the setting up an immigration processing centre in the borough where Miss Jones lived
2. centre in the borough where Miss Jones lived
3. “If you ask me, it’s more of a Hamlet than a Village, though maybe it could pass as a borough
4. They're happy to enjoy all the perks and the amenities that the borough council, in its munificence, has the good grace to supply, but will they pay their taxes? No sir, they will not
5. How is the borough to provide for him?"
6. But I know that the borough has provided those splendid new council chambers, for us all, and by all accounts it is a most magnificent building, although I myself am not allowed admittance, sir
7. Elsewhere in the borough were the many cinemas
8. borough, had appeared on the scene together with their equally
9. On their return to the ship, they stopped at Noord borough to visit Santa Ana’s church, famous for its altar of evergreen oak carved in Holland
10. It was during her employment there that she met a fellow clerk; an Irishman called Sean Healy whom she discovered was also a councillor on the local Borough Council
11. Council meetings could often drag on into the night but she would never be far from them as the Slough Borough Council offices were situated only a stones throw from where they lived
12. It was known as 33, York Road and was in a district known as Acton in the West London Borough of Ealing
13. I continued walking for another hour and a half before reaching Westmount, a suburb or as some Anglophone Canadians call a borough
14. The Bowery is both a street and a neighborhood in the southern portion of the borough of Manhattan
15. mayor of our borough
16. borough, and you’re probably the one who’s hitting the other
17. was better for you to live in a borough or suburb whichever you
18. It was a hot August afternoon in the borough of Queens, in New
19. For years, the Opposition had been accused of giving the Gandhis a soft landing in their pocket borough
20. He sees it as part of a move to have Sherborne declared a royal borough
21. Sherborne will never become a royal borough and Alice de Lambert will burn as a witch
22. Brockley is a district in southeast London at the heart of the borough of Lewisham
23. It was opened as a park in the mid eighteen eighties and is now a premier inner city space right in the heart of the borough
24. In recent years Borough Market has been a haven for anybody who cares about the quality and provenance of the food they eat
25. It sits in the extremely busy borough of Southwark
26. But the man suddenly turned left at the junction with Borough High Street and sprinted away
27. Now, an hour later he was five blocks away and walking casually into Borough Station
28. The Westfield London shopping centre in Hammersmith, or rather in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, was opened to much fanfare a little over three years ago
29. It was very near a stream, a tributary of the Thames that ambled its way to the River Roding which rose near Stansted airport and crossed Essex, forming part of the boundary between Epping Forest and the borough of Brentwood
30. " Instead of improving the soil, they persist in keeping up the pasture lands, however depreciated they may be in value, and the lazy borough, growing away from the plain, has naturally spread riverwards
31. connections or borough interest, he retired into the country; and, not knowing
32. He was accused on several occasions of groping, fondling, and taking other sexual liberties with his young female employees, which was one plot thread of a thinly veiled 1937 satirical novel of Grantham, Rotten Borough
33. After several encounters, in which they lost a few customers and a portion of the public lighting, the Gasworks Bandits retreated out of the town and entrenched themselves in a strong position beyond the borough boundary, where they erected a number of gasometers
34. `Why, even if the Gas Coy hadn't moved their works beyond the borough boundary, still we shouldn't 'ave been hable to compete with 'em
35. Some of these overfed females - the wives of tradesmen, for instance - belonged to the Organized Benevolence Society, and engaged in this `work' for the purpose of becoming acquainted with people of superior social position - one of the members was a colonel, and Sir Graball D'Encloseland - the Member of Parliament for the borough - also belonged to the Society and occasionally attended its meetings
36. Sir Graball D'Encloseland, the Member of Parliament for the borough, was one of the bitterest opponents of the halfpenny rate, but as he thought it was probable that there would soon be another General Election and he wanted the children's fathers to vote for him again, he was willing to do something for them in another way
37. It was an informal affair, and while they were waiting for the other luminaries, the early arrivals, Messrs Rushton, Didlum and Grinder, Mr Oyley Sweater, the Borough Surveyor, Mr Wireman, the electrical engineer who had been engaged as an `expert' to examine and report on the Electric Light Works, and two or three other gentlemen - all members of the Band - took advantage of the opportunity to discuss a number of things they were mutually interested in, which were to be dealt with at the meeting of the Town Council the next day
38. The expert's opinion was so favourable - and it was endorsed by the Borough Engineer, Mr Oyley Sweater - that a resolution was unanimously carried in favour of acquiring the Works for the town, and a secret committee was appointed to arrange the preliminaries
39. Dr Weakling pointed out that as the proposed alterations would cost about £175 - according to the estimate of the Borough Engineer - and, the rent being only £20 a year, it would mean that the Council would be £75 out of pocket at the end of the five years; to say nothing of the expense of keeping the place in repair during all that time
40. Didlum's proposition was carried, and the `hand' went on to the next item on the agenda, which was a proposal by Councillor Didlum to increase the salary of Mr Oyley Sweater, the Borough Engineer, from fifteen pounds to seventeen pounds per week
41. ) Compared with other officials, the Borough Engineer was not fairly paid
42. ) He had much pleasure in moving that the Borough Engineer's salary be increased to seventeen pounds a week, and that his annual holiday be extended from a fortnight to one calendar month with hard la- he begged pardon - with full pay
43. He wished it to be understood that he was not actuated by any feeling of personal animosity towards the Borough Engineer, but at the same time he considered it his duty to say that in his (Dr Weakling's) opinion, that official would be dear at half the price they were now paying him
44. ) He did not appear to understand his business, nearly all the work that was done cost in the end about double what the Borough Engineer estimated it could be done for
45. On this particular occasion the subject of the argument was - at first - the recent increase of the Borough Engineer's salary to seventeen pounds per week
46. Most of them seemed to think the fact that anyone would be glad to have seventeen pounds a week, proved that it was right for them to pay that amount to the Borough Engineer!
47. Nevertheless, the merchants could not hold courts and dispense justice the way they did in borough towns – the Kingsbridge prior retained those powers for himself
48. “Shiring is an independent borough, with a royal charter
49. single and double pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of 5 pounds per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C
50. Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana , but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e