Example sentences of "the road to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Leading Article : The road to chaos |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With provincial officials acting in such an enthusiastic manner , the country was once more on the road to chaos . |
| 5 | On the road to Laredo they talked student politics , how the US Central Intelligence Agency had financed sections of the National Union of Students . |
| 6 | When the strawberries were in season , especially if it was at all wet , there would be a procession of them making their way across the road to Strawberry Fields . |
| 7 | Carl is walking along the road to Bar Capri with his mother . |
| 8 | Faced with the need to take some action , and willing to restrict the death penalty but not to abandon it completely , a classic step on the road to abolition , the Government turned again to the idea of categorizing murders which the Labour Government had attempted , fruitlessly , as a way out of a previous Parliamentary impasse in 1948 . |
| 9 | The sale of Fort Ross in California in 1841 marked a well-defined stage on the road to withdrawal . |
| 10 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |
| 11 | But now that the road to peace in Cambodia once more looks at risk , the country needs the world 's attention again . |
| 12 | But to me , then , that seemed the road to insanity … or worse . |
| 13 | The road to depression |
| 14 | At 40 , he knows he 's on the road to fortune and admits to spending more time talking with journalists than working over hot ovens in the kitchen . |
| 15 | The teacher in the next example has supplied just enough information to start Jonathon on the road to discovery . |
| 16 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
| 17 | For him , the art world is one small path on the road to superstardom . |
| 18 | Meisel helped launch Linda Evangelista on to the road to superstardom , and it was Von Unwerth who captured Claudia Schiffer 's sex kitten quality and used it in the Guess advertising campaign which made the model famous . |
| 19 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 20 | The defeat of Labour was greeted with relief by health service managers , but critics said the NHS was now set on the road to privatisation and a two-tier service . |
| 21 | In other words , for Hinduism the road to monotheism has been by way of syncretism ( blending together ) rather than rejection . |
| 22 | Every journey starts with a single step , but a slip , not a stride , started Gareth and Rachel Rowlands ' dairy enterprise at Brynllys near Borth , Dyfed , on the road to success . |
| 23 | The idea that we might feel , that we might be angry , that we might care , that we might even have what are disparagingly known as ‘ gut feelings ’ rather than hard scientific evidence , is held to be something of a problem if you are an environmentalist on the road to success . |
| 24 | The Road to Success |
| 25 | The series is geared towards the needs of amateur painters starting out on the road to success . |
| 26 | Production is now in full swing — a busy time on the road to success . |
| 27 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 28 | Those who live with it day and night are now going down the road to compensation , and a legal battle with the Department of Transport . |
| 29 | The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round . |
| 30 | Within the next few months the silence in the Left media was further broken by articles criticizing councils such as Haringey for ‘ moralism ’ , suggesting that anti-heterosexist policies were undermining Labour 's traditional family-based support , and advocating psychoanalytic theory as the road to lesbian and gay liberation . |