Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] on [art] roads " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tar on the roads glistened like liquid quicksilver . |
| 2 | I am intrigued to know how you work out the speed on the roads and tracks and how you know when to trot and when to canter ? |
| 3 | The above arrangements are an attempt to relieve some of the congestion on the roads at peak commuting times . |
| 4 | The perfect evening would be sometime in August when the heat of the summer is distilled and concentrated and the ground in the pine forests has become brown and crackly , the tarmac on the roads quite soft . |
| 5 | If he does , he will recognise the serious warning by the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors that if a Labour Government imposed a freeze on the roads programme , up to 20,000 jobs could be lost in the construction industry . |
| 6 | Sitting in a traffic jam with such a car alongside is a contemporary purgatory that produces reactions in me that bode no good for the future of the human race and make me a menace on the roads for minutes afterwards . |
| 7 | PERMITTING — means an express or implied permission and does not involve any order to take a vehicle on the roads . |
| 8 | Capable of a 109mph top speed , acceleration from standstill to 62mph in 13 secs and seating four adults , Volvo 's Environmental Concept Car stacks up like few others in claiming a place on the roads of tomorrow . |
| 9 | She 's a danger on the roads . |
| 10 | In spite of the revival of interest in airships now they can be filled with cheap helium , they are still unattractive in most circles and it is no good quoting the figures for people killed in airship crashes against those killed every day on the roads and similar statistics , or the successful career of the R100 , although filled with hydrogen . |
| 11 | There was almost no traffic on the roads , though it was only ten-thirty . |
| 12 | At that time on an October Sunday morning , there was next to no traffic on the roads and I was in London by nine o'clock . |
| 13 | Clapham , indeed , accounts for nearly half the 77 fatalities of the last ten years : compare that with the 5,000 deaths and 300,000 injuries every year on the roads . |
| 14 | WHAT are we to make of a claim by the Surrey Wildlife Trust that more than a million wild animals and birds are ‘ probably ’ killed every year on the roads of Britain ? |
| 15 | The responsibility can weigh heavily , ‘ He 's a hairbrain on the roads , ’ says Tracey . |