Example sentences of "[art] road to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finished — the road to Low Birk Hatt |
| 2 | No French troops troubled the road to Mons ; it seemed that the Belgian countryside slept under its summer heat . |
| 3 | The Gold Award Winners DRIVING HAULIERS ON THE ROAD TO TQM |
| 4 | We were on the south side of a small sea fjord , the head of which formed a junction for the road to Nusfjord . |
| 5 | Reading Roberts ' biography , one learns that the world he visited was violent : crossing the snows of the Chouf mountains , he was told that there were gunmen on the road to Baalbek — just as there are today . |
| 6 | In effect Warsaw became a staging post on the road to Moscow and the Poles were little more than cannon fodder . |
| 7 | You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 8 | She added : You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 9 | THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS AND BACK |
| 10 | I had almost daily visions of a cathartic kind , with the total and even religious intensity of those experienced by Paul on the road to Damascus — an unfortunate comparison ! |
| 11 | ‘ Like Saul on the road to Damascus , ’ Leo said . |
| 12 | Deep learning , on the other hand , is the kind you take with you through the rest of your life : like Paul of Tarsus 's conversion on the road to Damascus , or the kind of insights vouchsafed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau when he fell asleep under his tree of knowledge . |
| 13 | And then Magda would be off again explaining that , ‘ The road to Damascus was busy again today … ’ |
| 14 | The change came suddenly : ‘ I always think it was like St Paul on the road to Damascus . |
| 15 | It 's called The Road to Damascus , Chiros and Conversion and it 's a document signed by Christians from all sorts of countries , they all agree with the contents of this . |
| 16 | You can trace those through the Bible ; Moses saw the Glory of God — His brightness ; Psalms refers to the Temple , where the splendour of God is to be found ; the shepherds were surrounded by the brightness of God 's Glory , and so was Paul on the road to Damascus . |
| 17 | When I listen to him now , gung-ho for Delorsism , I can only reflect that Saul on the road to Damascus was nothing compared to Neil on the autoroute to Brussels . |
| 18 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 19 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 20 | They were heading south-west along the road to Kinsai . |
| 21 | South from Elphin , along the road to Ullapool , are the Knocknan cliffs , another famous Assynt limestone outcrop , and where the Moine Thrust , a geological feature , can be clearly seen . |
| 22 | Returning to the T-junction , the road to Ullapool is followed along the side of Stac Polly . |
| 23 | ‘ The road to Palestine ’ , we in Beirut were told by the PLO , lay through Jounieh , that pleasant Maronite port halfway between Beirut and Byblos . |
| 24 | It was Salah Khalaf no less , one of the PLO 's leading strategists , who announced in May 1976 — when the Palestinians were climbing the eastern flanks of Sannine to attack the Christians in their historic mountain defences — that the road to Palestine should pass through ‘ Uyun Al-Siman , Aintura and even Jounieh itself to prevent any further threat to the Palestinian presence in Lebanon ’ . |
| 25 | The parties to litigation , whether before a court or a tribunal , which results in trial and judgment have resisted many encouragements to settle the claim along the road to trial . |
| 26 | It also tied in the now famous tomb on the road to Arques , which supposedly features in Poussin 's painting of ‘ Les Bergeres d'Arcadie ’ , into the geometry . |
| 27 | Leading Article : The road to chaos |
| 28 | Nowhere was the stolid exceptionalism of the British more evident than in the rejection of constitutional reform and in the way in which Conservatives sought to portray this reform as the road to chaos — as if the US , Australia , Germany , Spain and other developed democracies had not prospered with more representative systems . |
| 29 | With provincial officials acting in such an enthusiastic manner , the country was once more on the road to chaos . |
| 30 | On the road to Laredo they talked student politics , how the US Central Intelligence Agency had financed sections of the National Union of Students . |