Example sentences of "[noun pl] on the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that an offence categorised as fraud , can include company crimes , minor embezzlements and major swindles , ranging from small-time scams on the street to sophisticated computer fraud . |
| 2 | She fixed her eyes on the street in an attempt to calm herself . |
| 3 | Selling to little traders on the street . |
| 4 | CONTROLLING KIDS ON THE STREET |
| 5 | This is when the gun-toting kids on the street are high on qat — a bitter-tasting leaf that acts as an amphetamine . |
| 6 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 7 | Soliciting funds on the street , and becoming a growing presence at neighbourhood meetings , the Newmanites ( then numbering perhaps 30 committed members ) moved in and out of coalitions and vicious factional struggles with other marginal groups . |
| 8 | I sat there and watched him , and I watched the traffic and the shops on the streets we went through . |
| 9 | Conversation had to be minimal , but they did guide me through the maze of one-way streets , diversions and road-works which makes driving in Prague difficult even if there are no other cars on the streets . |
| 10 | Moreover , the so-called ‘ permissive society ’ was not protecting women from being treated as sex-objects : far from it ; pornography flourished , kerb-crawlers harassed passers-by on the streets . |
| 11 | When asked what frightens me most about London , I say , it is not the pinwheeled eyes of junkies on the street . |
| 12 | That measure was aimed at tackling the menace of the casual carrying of knives on the streets to which the hon. Member for Leyton drew attention . |
| 13 | While standing in the same street , joy would notice the creative window displays and smiling faces , hear the laughter and smell the roasting chestnuts on the street corner ; while Gloom would see the traffic , litter and inflated prices , hear the honking horns and smell the exhaust fumes . |
| 14 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 15 | Parents on the streets of the town know there is something badly wrong , that the issue is control of their children , and it is often to the school that they look . |
| 16 | But they refuse to follow the flock in calling for the return of the death penalty and reject the idea that the killers on the street , the people with the knives , are inherently evil . |
| 17 | Young people with little education but the right connections or boldness could make more money selling goods like watermelons on the street than they could hope to earn after graduation . |
| 18 | What struck every sensitive observer was the presence of beggars on the streets of every Spanish town . |
| 19 | we 're not dossers on the street , we 're ordinary people . |
| 20 | The mercenaries on the street looked up for one moment , eyes wide , and then he was upon them . |
| 21 | When a judge , particularly one with Lord Scarman 's breadth of mind , is appointed to inquire into an outbreak of violence and serious disorders on the streets of Brixton and the policing of the area , it is unrealistic to expect him to avoid any recommendations of a political nature as to the causes . |
| 22 | Wambaugh , himself an ex-cop , describes the ways in which wildly autocratic and psychotic bosses set out to undermine their own ‘ front line troops on the streets ’ and describes a manual which mirrors the poster in the Northumbria police training department described above : |
| 23 | Throughout 1988 there were reports of growing unrest in Armenia which eventually erupted into major dashes , with tales of large-scale rioting and murder with tanks and troops on the streets . |
| 24 | As rumours of a military coup mounted in late September , there was an increased presence of troops on the streets of all the main cities to prevent an escalation of anti-government demonstrations , particulary those led by students . |
| 25 | Mr Depardieu also delights in adding lurid colour to his teenage days on the streets of Châteauroux . |
| 26 | He and Jasper and others , schoolfellows or street acquaintances , spent their days on the streets or in the Underground . |
| 27 | He spends his days on the street , in cafes or on buses . |
| 28 | By way of reply , Connor walked across the room , drew back the bolts on the street door and flung it open . |
| 29 | New arrivals on the street scene were to be the stars of tomorrow and the mink-lined coffins that were the grand old studios were about to disappear for ever . |
| 30 | It was a practice requiring the submission of the lower classes on the street , yet at the same time reflecting subordination of the constables to the whims of senior officers and to a manipulative body of law . |