Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] roads " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | US President-elect Bill Clinton drives his friends round the bend with his love of speed on the roads . |
| 3 | The aim is to bring calm to the streets and reduce the death toll on the roads which costs millions of pounds every year . |
| 4 | At the same time , a gradual decline set in with the advent of freight transportation on the roads . |
| 5 | 7.6 ENDANGERMENT ON THE ROADS |
| 6 | Our discussion so far has stressed the relationship between endangerment on the roads and the detailed rules of the road , including the driving test . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | PERMITTING — means an express or implied permission and does not involve any order to take a vehicle on the roads . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the transport debate Mr Parkinson said more investment in Britain 's railways would not solve the problem of congestion on the roads . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | the only way to relieve congestion on the roads is to get off them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Many of the parks were established near centres of population following the Countryside Act 1968 which provided grant aid for parks in an attempt to relieve congestion on the roads , to ease pressure on more remote and solitary places , and to reduce the risk of damage to vulnerable and valuable areas of countryside ( Brotherton , 1975 ) . |
| 16 | The above arrangements are an attempt to relieve some of the congestion on the roads at peak commuting times . |
| 17 | Sitting in a traffic jam with such a car alongside is a contemporary purgatory that produces reactions in me that bode no good for the future of the human race and make me a menace on the roads for minutes afterwards . |
| 18 | If he does , he will recognise the serious warning by the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors that if a Labour Government imposed a freeze on the roads programme , up to 20,000 jobs could be lost in the construction industry . |
| 19 | Just north of Bordeaux , at the very centre of the wine-making country , the team time trial takes place on the roads around the ancient citadel-town of Libourne . |
| 20 | Capable of a 109mph top speed , acceleration from standstill to 62mph in 13 secs and seating four adults , Volvo 's Environmental Concept Car stacks up like few others in claiming a place on the roads of tomorrow . |
| 21 | risk of accident on the roads |
| 22 | She 's a danger on the roads . |
| 23 | We are the biggest danger on the roads . |
| 24 | Shock tactics are being used to make young drivers more aware of danger on the roads . |
| 25 | The ABD does not object to Gatsos where they will contribute to safety on the roads . |
| 26 | Questions about adequate levels of safety on the roads or in factories , or about purity in foods are of this kind . |
| 27 | The largest group on the roads , especially following an outbreak of peace , were soldiers and sailors ; they made up , for example , a third of all migrants passing through Lichfield in 1692 . |
| 28 | In spite of the revival of interest in airships now they can be filled with cheap helium , they are still unattractive in most circles and it is no good quoting the figures for people killed in airship crashes against those killed every day on the roads and similar statistics , or the successful career of the R100 , although filled with hydrogen . |
| 29 | Safe road surfaces , adequate street lighting and sign posting , compulsory driving tests , road use regulations , compulsory speed limits and minimum mechanical safety standards for vehicles are all examples of measures taken by national governments to maintain a safe environment on the roads and to prevent accidents . |
| 30 | STEVE Cram launches his new 5,000 metres career on the roads of Aberdeen in the mood to confound the critics who have written him off as a has-been . |