Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] on [art] streets " in BNC.

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1 In a paper to the Social Science Association in 1868 , Curgenven insisted that the acts not only promoted the moral reform of fallen women but also raised the standard of public order on the streets .
2 Purity demands for legislation against prostitution , brothel-keeping and other acts of immorality often explicitly addressed problems posed by the culture of the urban poor and the difficulties of keeping public order on the streets .
3 Thousands of young people will be spending this Christmas on the streets because they have no home to go to , and over a third of them will have spent most of their childhood in care .
4 September was a tawny month , tanned , cooked skin on the streets , brown crispness on the leaves .
5 ‘ Document A. That the man , who was belligerent on several occasions at first , threatening the social worker called in by the Visitor , said it was no business of theirs as it was a family matter and that the girl 's father , his own brother , had given his consent , and what more could you want , and there was no higher authority than that , and no wonder there was so much crime on the streets if the government took away the father 's power , and why did n't they do something about crime on the streets instead of invading people 's homes .
6 Verbal abuse on the streets was commonplace , a brick through the window was not unusual .
7 Given the stark position on the streets of Northern Ireland , is it not the right hon. Gentleman 's responsibility to set a date for the reconvening of talks , so that they can begin where they ended ?
8 Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention .
9 His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets .
10 This raid , and the resultant violence on the streets of Brixton , convinced many people that the way policing is carried out is a vital factor in the context of urban unrest .
11 Yes , well , I mean I 'm very happy to be able to agree totally with that erm , people who make the laws are n't the people who suffer from the the physical , and matters might be a great deal better if erm , they paid a bit more attention , I do hope that he would agree however , erm , that police officers who are female also have a good effect on the streets , because he was acting as if erm , it was only the male person who were any use , and I 'm sure that is not so .
12 MASS brutality by the Romanian regime on the streets of Bucharest and cities and towns across the country cast a chilling shadow over Eastern Europe 's momentous year of democratic change yesterday .
13 Their children had begun to face racial abuse on the streets and in the schools .
14 She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo .
15 Evil spirit on the streets
16 GLAMOUR IS IN SHORT supply on the streets of Harlesden .
17 Mrs Sandford , a press officer for the Darlington Disabled District Association , said : ‘ It was quite worrying as there is complete mayhem on the streets .
18 At least a hundred thousand people took part in a peaceful rally on the streets of Kwangju , marking the army 's suppression of the nineteen eighty uprising .
19 This time , with deepening anger on the streets over price liberalisation , the hardliners were not to forgo their chance .
20 The van would arrive every evening to give food to the homeless living on the streets and she was serving up the soup when she saw a man sitting in the doorway .
21 There was enough blood on the streets down here already .
22 Given the already appalling and growing rate of homelessness and lack of hostel facilities in London , when more people than ever will not only have to endure the freezing nights of the coming winter on the streets , but perhaps permanent homelessness , it was terrible to see the situation being exploited for a joke by your advertisement : ‘ Just the thing now the evenings are drawing in .
23 Everyone knew about Mandy , it was common knowledge on the streets .
24 Parliament is an inadequate means to secure change ; there must be mass protest on the streets .
25 The other important factor was a new drug on the streets .
26 In media terms China would sink low on the news list unless there was new trouble on the streets .
27 The winner went through hours of written exams and a tough driving contest on the streets of Milton Keynes to win the title
28 If the US team were hoping to hear that martial law may soon be lifted , they may have been forestalled by a tiny but significant demonstration on the streets of Beijing .
29 The overthrow of Siyad Barre came at the end of a month of intense fighting on the streets of Mogadishu .
30 There is but one type of work which police everywhere enjoy , and that is active crime-fighting on the streets ( for example see Ekblom and Heal 1982 ; Ericson 1982 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Punch 1979a ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ) .
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