Example sentences of "[conj] the road to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Salah Khalaf no less , one of the PLO 's leading strategists , who announced in May 1976 — when the Palestinians were climbing the eastern flanks of Sannine to attack the Christians in their historic mountain defences — that the road to Palestine should pass through ‘ Uyun Al-Siman , Aintura and even Jounieh itself to prevent any further threat to the Palestinian presence in Lebanon ’ . |
| 2 | But now that the road to peace in Cambodia once more looks at risk , the country needs the world 's attention again . |
| 3 | In the parish of Norton-by-Twycross , on the borders of Warwickshire and Leicestershire , the award of 1748 specifies that the road to London , which is here the main road between Burton-on-Trent and Atherstone , should be not less than thirty-three yards wide . |
| 4 | But although the impact of women 's liberation remains resilient in the culture , a question remains : given the assumption that the road to liberation lay , among other things , in women 's economic independence , what happens when employment ceases to be an alternative " destiny " ? |
| 5 | We may be sure that many people even in the eleventh century had doubts about this doctrine ; just as St Anselm was convinced that the road to Jerusalem which could be pursued within the walls of a monastery was safer and holier than that to Jerusalem itself . |
| 6 | The Socialists ( 24.5 per cent ) had considered merging with the Communists when the war ended to create a single working-class party but their leaders , like Leon Blum , believed that the road to socialism lay through a liberal-democratic political system rather than a Soviet-style regime . |
| 7 | ‘ If the road to Heaven ever freezes over you 'll be there before the rest of us . |
| 8 | This argument might have something in it if the road to fitness were hard and difficult to achieve . |
| 9 | Madrid and the road to Valencia remained in Republican hands , but the Nationalists had pushed the front line forward a few kilometres and were dangerously close to the Madrid-Valencia road . |
| 10 | We had managed to enter Bahdu , had been accepted , and the road to Aussa lay open . |
| 11 | I want to go and see the place where I was brought up , my little house , the garden and the road to town . |
| 12 | The Bishop of Derry talks exclusively to the Belfast Telegraph about his illness and the road to recovery . |
| 13 | The Bishop of Derry talks exclusively to the Belfast Telegraph about his illness and the road to recovery . |
| 14 | Perhaps above all , the closeness of the relationship between husband and wife is often valued more for itself than in the days when marriage was seen mainly as the road to Procreation or when economic and family convenience dictated the union . |