rural parish

collocation in English

meaningsofruralandparish

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rural
adjective
uk
/ˈrʊə.rəl/us
/ˈrʊr.əl/
in, of, or like ...
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parish
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpær.ɪʃ/us
/ˈper.ɪʃ/
in some Christian denominations, an area cared for by one priest with its own church, or (in England) the smallest unit of ...
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(Definition ofruralandparishfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is provision, because where a district has aruralparishthe allotments will remain under the control of the parish.
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A man may have just moved from oneruralparishto another, and be living 50 yards away from his previous address.
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The difficulty is, as he will know from close experiece, that there are few instances where one man looks after one fairly smallruralparish.
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The housing authority for aruralparishis the rural district council, not the parish council.
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Supposing that it puts up a telephone in someruralparishand it makes a profit.
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Here is aruralparishwith rates actually higher than the manufacturing towns on the banks of the river.
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I am one of those people who think that everyruralparishshould have a council.
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What do the words "ruralparish" really mean?
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It is aruralparish, but those with no interest in agriculture dominate the voting there.
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That does not prevent a populousruralparishbeing divided into more than one polling district or from having more than one polling place.
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This is a smallruralparishand it will remain so.
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This is aruralparishand is done in order to avoid the necessity of cleansing the river of refuse lower down.
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I remember the requests that we had from our opponents to extend the definition ofruralparishmore and more.
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I represent aruralparishwhere housing is badly required.
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We are experiencing the same thing in almost everyruralparishin our constituencies.
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But one wonders how often that is likely to take place in a smallruralparish.
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There is also no definition provided in the amendment of "ruralparish" and there is no current definition of the expression.
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Forty of them are less than a square mile in area, and more than half are about the size of an ordinaryruralparish—seven, eight or nine square miles.
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I should be grateful if he would tell us the legal definition of the words "ruralparish" used in paragraph (e) in this connection.
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