Example sentences of "[noun] on [prep] the streets " in BNC.
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1 | In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets . |
2 | I do n't forget how often you have threatened to throw Ben on to the streets ; knowing full well that if he went , I would go with him . |
3 | Those who are outside the party machine , jettisoned in the interests of moderation , have taken the fight on to the streets to capture grassroots support . |
4 | It was not right , it said , to criminalise ‘ the unrest , worries and questions which drove thousands of Dresdeners on to the streets ’ . |
5 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
6 | The government responded forcefully on Feb. 25 to prevent a second attempt by the movement to take its campaign on to the streets . |
7 | Durham police are taking the war against solvent abuse on to the streets and into local shops . |
8 | People who suggest that to intern is to bring the community on to the streets cast doubt on the integrity of the vast majority in Northern Ireland . |
9 | After Thursday 's rampage by crowds which burned the Venezuelan Embassy , Col Muammar Gaddafi appealed for ‘ self-restraint ’ and ordered more troops on to the streets to protect foreign missions , Libyan radio said . |
10 | Attempting unsuccessfully to repeat his 1987 tactics , Ershad had declared a state of emergency on Nov. 27 , 1990 , ordering troops on to the streets of the capital , Dhaka , to restore order [ see p. 37856 ] . |
11 | The day of action on 22 September brought about 60,000 people on to the streets of London and , according to The Times , it was the ‘ biggest revolt for a decade ’ . |
12 | ‘ For people to suggest that to intern is to bring people on to the streets casts doubts on the integrity of the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland . |
13 | On April 10 the strike committee brought up to 100,000 people on to the streets of Minsk . |
14 | Comité de forces vives , brought tens of thousands of people on to the streets of the capital , Antananarivo , each day from June 10 to the end of the month to demonstrate for far-reaching political reforms . |
15 | Sadly , the own reaction , his own reaction then was to make a speech to threaten to put more people on to the streets . |
16 | ‘ If he hears us , we 'll both follow Beth on to the streets and that 's a fact . ’ |
17 | Cold winter maybe , but it had been a long summer that ended that afternoon , from Powell , through the May Events and , at the end of August , the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia , which had again pulled the demonstrators on to the streets , but on this occasion down to Notting Hill and Olympia , the homes of the Czech and Soviet embassies , and an ill-timed eastern bloc trade exhibition . |
18 | A city where the buses stopped at eleven thirty , the pubs ushered their surprised foreign tourists on to the streets at five to eleven , and a meal after that meant Indian or Chinese . |
19 | The policy of drafting reservists was put into abeyance when the conflict in Croatia eased , and the new call-up has brought hundreds of angry men on to the streets insisting they will not fight . |
20 | On 23 June rightist demonstrations took place in Seoul and in other parts of south Korea ; Hodge ordered American tanks on to the streets to disperse the crowds . |