Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] streets " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside Rosen 's office the rain had expired leaving a sheen on the streets . |
| 2 | There was enough blood on the streets down here already . |
| 3 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you take me there will be blood on the streets . ’ |
| 5 | If the US team were hoping to hear that martial law may soon be lifted , they may have been forestalled by a tiny but significant demonstration on the streets of Beijing . |
| 6 | Combine it with the cheap , readily available heroin and cocaine on the streets and you have an explosive mix . |
| 7 | ‘ Document A. That the man , who was belligerent on several occasions at first , threatening the social worker called in by the Visitor , said it was no business of theirs as it was a family matter and that the girl 's father , his own brother , had given his consent , and what more could you want , and there was no higher authority than that , and no wonder there was so much crime on the streets if the government took away the father 's power , and why did n't they do something about crime on the streets instead of invading people 's homes . |
| 8 | ‘ Document A. That the man , who was belligerent on several occasions at first , threatening the social worker called in by the Visitor , said it was no business of theirs as it was a family matter and that the girl 's father , his own brother , had given his consent , and what more could you want , and there was no higher authority than that , and no wonder there was so much crime on the streets if the government took away the father 's power , and why did n't they do something about crime on the streets instead of invading people 's homes . |
| 9 | When there is confrontation on the streets or on the picket line we are told that ‘ the responsibility which our education service bears for this state of affairs can not be ignored ’ . |
| 10 | Yes , well , I mean I 'm very happy to be able to agree totally with that erm , people who make the laws are n't the people who suffer from the the physical , and matters might be a great deal better if erm , they paid a bit more attention , I do hope that he would agree however , erm , that police officers who are female also have a good effect on the streets , because he was acting as if erm , it was only the male person who were any use , and I 'm sure that is not so . |
| 11 | The overthrow of Siyad Barre came at the end of a month of intense fighting on the streets of Mogadishu . |
| 12 | Violence on the streets escalated . |
| 13 | This raid , and the resultant violence on the streets of Brixton , convinced many people that the way policing is carried out is a vital factor in the context of urban unrest . |
| 14 | ‘ I know what violence on the streets is all about , ’ he said . |
| 15 | If we allow this thing to become about stopping the violence on the streets , once the violence stops we 'll think we 've solved something , when in reality we 've solved nothing . |
| 16 | Returned to the invisibility of the home front , where we should have been all along , unaccounted for among the statistics of unemployment , stuck with the main responsibility for unpaid community care as the welfare state collapsed , women have seen the major characteristics of the depression of the 1980s depicted as male and youth unemployment , the destruction of men 's jobs , small businessmen going bankrupt and resentment turning to violence on the streets . |
| 17 | Violence on the streets increasingly moved from the Distressed Areas to London , Manchester and other major cities in reaction to the rise of the British Union of Fascists . |
| 18 | I think in terms of public order and violence on the streets , then it 's to court disaster to wait until the disruption actually happens . |
| 19 | In his second dream he found an axe on the streets of his city . |
| 20 | In Colombo policemen often took advantage of municipal health , safety and traffic regulations in order to ‘ tax ’ carters , rickshaw drivers and others who made their living on the streets of the capital , and in the twentieth century bus drivers regularly bribed the police . |
| 21 | After all , just ten years ago in Lima , Peru , police were engaged in violent battles with poor hawkers trying to scrape a living on the streets . |
| 22 | The van would arrive every evening to give food to the homeless living on the streets and she was serving up the soup when she saw a man sitting in the doorway . |
| 23 | Student action on the streets — as in China or South Korea — does not as such raise issues of academic freedom . |
| 24 | The TUC General Council made history by failing to urge members to vote Labour , and a march in Birmingham yesterday headed by Bill Jordan , president of the AEU , and Mr Lyons was one of the rare occasions when trade union support has been out in force on the streets . |
| 25 | They were also out in force on the streets when thousands of anti-Nazi demonstrators — Turks and Germans — gathered in Solingen . |
| 26 | MARINES were out in force on the streets of Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 27 | The winner went through hours of written exams and a tough driving contest on the streets of Milton Keynes to win the title |
| 28 | Given the already appalling and growing rate of homelessness and lack of hostel facilities in London , when more people than ever will not only have to endure the freezing nights of the coming winter on the streets , but perhaps permanent homelessness , it was terrible to see the situation being exploited for a joke by your advertisement : ‘ Just the thing now the evenings are drawing in . |
| 29 | But a battle of the bands is preferable any day to the Battle of the Boyne or what has increasingly become a battle on the streets . |
| 30 | The need to secure obedience to the laws passed by Parliament is said to limit what Parliament can do in a situation in which there are those who are prepared to openly defy the law on the streets , with strikes , and with the gun . |