Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] roads " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLANTING trees along the side of the roads can shield people from traffic noise at a fraction of the cost of conventional techniques . |
| 2 | The real Fijian villages , on the land side of the roads , were breezeblock and tin , and decorated with huge billboards for Benson and Hedges . |
| 3 | One account describes the impalement of scores of men on wooden stakes , where they were left to die along the side of the roads leading to Belgrade . |
| 4 | It 's all different now , and years ago was King and on the side of the roads was special gallops for the marsh trained for King , King Teddy . |
| 5 | It seems likely that the condition of the roads had begun to grow uneven after Aberdeen : today , upon leaving the main road , the castle , now ruined , may only be approached on pockmarked and muddy lanes , and if these approximate to the surfaces upon which Johnson had to travel once he entered a remoter Scotland , his pace may be understood and excused , and his courage further applauded . |
| 6 | The act was a considerable relaxation of earlier limitations and indeed , the progressive relaxation over the period seems to be as much a testimony to the improved load-bearing of the roads as an accommodation of the expanding volume of goods traffic . |
| 7 | The Road Traffic Act , 1956 , permitted the installation of parking meters in spite of vigorous opposition from the roads lobby . |
| 8 | Contractors and skip firms should not deliver skips to customers unless the customer ( whose responsibility it is ) has obtained a permit from the roads department . |
| 9 | I am intrigued to know how you work out the speed on the roads and tracks and how you know when to trot and when to canter ? |
| 10 | US President-elect Bill Clinton drives his friends round the bend with his love of speed on the roads . |
| 11 | The aim is to bring calm to the streets and reduce the death toll on the roads which costs millions of pounds every year . |
| 12 | It is important for the Opposition to bear it in mind that their opposition to the roads programme is a recipe not only for increased congestion but for increased fatalities and casualties on our roads . |
| 13 | At the same time , a gradual decline set in with the advent of freight transportation on the roads . |
| 14 | 7.6 ENDANGERMENT ON THE ROADS |
| 15 | Our discussion so far has stressed the relationship between endangerment on the roads and the detailed rules of the road , including the driving test . |
| 16 | These radical discussions during gang labour on the roads , and smuggling paled into insignificance when compared with the worst of all seen by the investigators , the widespread encouragement of idleness and vice by regular poor relief in cash . |
| 17 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
| 18 | Such members can quite easily be made in curved shapes and a not uncommon obstruction on the roads of England is a lorry carrying vast timber arches for some architectural project . |
| 19 | The announcement came in a Commons written reply by the roads minister , Kenneth Carlisle , but by that time most of the UK 's 9000 test stations had already halted the test and replaced it with the old visual check for excess smoke . |
| 20 | erm and bearing in mind Mr 's comments about er could he have thought we translated into rather more layman 's language and say well the capacity of the roads do actually deliver and extract people from Gatwick mathematical modelling is pretty suspect stuff but erm but at least it would er if that is true if it is not capable of actually er sensibly erm er allowing arrivals and departures er onto our road network without causing I think all they 're doing is pushing the problem onto us er and we ought |
| 21 | IN my opinion the loveliest of all the dales , Dentdale is also the most secluded , cut off both by the hills which hem its stern and western ends and by the narrowness of the roads that lead in and out of it . |
| 22 | Well that 's that 's that 's groom what they call the groom , then he had another job he did in the Winter , he out in the council with the roads or any kind of job like that . |
| 23 | They 're probably putting sand e sand in the roads . |
| 24 | PERMITTING — means an express or implied permission and does not involve any order to take a vehicle on the roads . |
| 25 | Parish poorhouses and workhouses were established for the destitute and if there was no work available , the unemployed were put to paid work on the roads or on local farms . |
| 26 | It would force a return to the Roads –n Urban Areas style of road and housing layout which is widely agreed to be less than desirable – |
| 27 | In the transport debate Mr Parkinson said more investment in Britain 's railways would not solve the problem of congestion on the roads . |
| 28 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 29 | the only way to relieve congestion on the roads is to get off them . |
| 30 | It can also contribute to congestion on the roads , various forms of pollution , and rising house prices if there is a demand for second or holiday homes . |