Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] road " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't wish to take advantage of the Associate Membership you can opt for a free road atlas , worth £12.75 , instead . |
| 2 | Eventually we came upon an empty railway shed with a paved road and a line of street lamps along one side . |
| 3 | EARLY ONE EVENING last spring in the Troodos mountains of Cyprus a peasant was climbing up a winding road , driving a donkey laden with goat fodder . |
| 4 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |
| 5 | the accommodation was located on a busy road which generated excessive noise . |
| 6 | First , the hotel entrance , located on a main road , is fairly anonymous to passers-by . |
| 7 | In the New York borough of Queens a policeman rescued 13 children from a van trapped on a flooded road . |
| 8 | The bridge is now used only by pedestrians , having been superseded by a new road bridge in 1958 . |
| 9 | They also cross a railway junction which passes under a minor road just north of track ( H ) . |
| 10 | We crossed the wide River Rhone the following morning on a huge suspension bridge , then moved up a main road , poplars and plane trees to either side of us . |
| 11 | During his stay Modigliani strolled in the garden and often trudged up a winding road , overlooking the sea and shaded by palms and eucalyptus trees , to the village café bar for a drink . |
| 12 | Earlier , a close friend of Pringle 's , Jason Ward , 20 , was shot in a minor road near Stillington , on the Cleveland-Durham border . |
| 13 | What is the monetary value of a Saxon church or a life saved from a preventable road accident ? |
| 14 | They began to meet people in their travelling , and actually came upon a gravelled road that some lord of Ralarth had laid down decades or centuries ago , the wagon ruts deep in it . |
| 15 | Outside the walled area , a house built on a disused road ( p. 94 ) began as an aisled structure but later had a corridor and two wings added to it . |
| 16 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 17 | Front bedrooms are sited over a main road but have a lake view , rear rooms are quieter . |
| 18 | A World Bank-backed forest conservation programme has been launched in Guyana , but its effectiveness may be threatened by a new road and the government 's recent granting of logging rights to a Malay-Korean consortium . |
| 19 | St Aldate 's church is sandwiched between a main road and a housing estate . |
| 20 | A similarly failed road , at least to the west of Bicester , is the Roman Akeman Street which is only used as a modern road in short sections . |
| 21 | This was one of the changes initially seen under the Republic : the capture of Jamaica in 1655 opened up a new road which encouraged rulers in the second half of the century to go forward and force other European powers to give up their lands on almost the whole of the North American coastline . |
| 22 | Café curtains , which traditionally only cover the lower half of the window , offer a very simple solution to privacy and are ideal in kitchens which face onto a busy road . |
| 23 | Ms Jackson is not advocating allowing your child to play in a busy road , or watching as it tips a bottle of bleach down its throat . |
| 24 | Like going on a flat road , without putting the brake |
| 25 | PFA chief executive Taylor said : ‘ We are going down a dangerous road when it is left to referees to decide whether players are injured or not . |
| 26 | For the purposes of sub-paragraph ( a ) to ( k ) of paragraph ( 4 ) of this regulation , where a mechanically propelled vehicle is used on a public road by virtue of a trade licence and that vehicle is drawing a trailer , the vehicle and trailer shall be deemed to constitute a single vehicle . |
| 27 | On the other side of the stream there was a collection of farm buildings but they linked to a different road further down . |
| 28 | From Leh , the first part of the trade route is now used by a military road — the highest motorable highway in the world — traversing the Khardung La at 18,380ft ( more tightly shut eyes ! ) . |
| 29 | Local issues , including the election of three independent candidates who campaigned against a new road , played a part in the Tories ' loss of Merton , and similar borough-specific factors seemed to be at work in those Labour authorities where the party fared particularly badly . |
| 30 | Set on a main road , the amenities here include a lounge-bar for relaxing in , a TV room , a sheltered terrace overlooking the swimming pool , two lifts , a covered car park and a good , air-conditioned restaurant . |