Example sentences of "the road [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Road Traffic Act , 1956 , permitted the installation of parking meters in spite of vigorous opposition from the roads lobby . |
| 2 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 3 | They were concentrated on the Ministry of Equipment , Housing , Transport and the Sea which was ordered to lose F3,000 million from its 1991 budget ( including F1,000 million from the roads budget ) and F2,000 million from projects planned for 1992 ; and on the Ministry of Labour , Employment and Vocational Training , which was ordered to instigate cuts amounting to F2,500 million . |
| 4 | Mr Young said : ‘ A lot of money is needed to allow all the light rail schemes to go ahead , but it 's only a fraction of the cost of the roads budget . |
| 5 | The meeting comes on a day when the roads minister announced improvements to reduce noise impact . |
| 6 | Now forty-five GPs and consultants in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire are backing Dr Keeley 's protest to the Roads Minister . |
| 7 | New drivers taking their L tests from next year will face a fresh challenge as part of their examination , and it 's been announced by the Roads Minister , Christopher Chope today . |
| 8 | That makes nonsense of the planning procedure and adds to the difficulties of the local objectors , which already include the 9 kg of paper produced by the roads directorate in Scotland , so that no proper analysis or preparation of arguments can be done in advance . |
| 9 | But now spoil-sport officials in the Roads Service have ordered him to remove them , claiming they could cause an accident . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the Department of the Environment said : ‘ The contract was put out for tender locally by the Roads Service and was awarded to Safeall for three years . ’ |
| 11 | But they waited , and the roads north and west remained quiet . |
| 12 | In terms of travel , not only is Edinburgh conveniently situated for road and rail travel to other parts of Britain and Europe , but the roads north give rapid and easy access to the dramatic scenery of the Scottish Highlands . |
| 13 | But for various reasons a specifically town-planning view of the roads question was slow to develop ; emphasis seemed to lie elsewhere . |
| 14 | Within six months we will review the roads programme and mobilise private capital for large-scale public transport investment . |
| 15 | Other studies deal with the effectiveness of programmes : for example , weaknesses in the roads programme . |
| 16 | It is important for the Opposition to bear it in mind that their opposition to the roads programme is a recipe not only for increased congestion but for increased fatalities and casualties on our roads . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I note that , in addition to the party 's moratorium on the roads programme , the shadow Secretary of State for Transport has imposed a moratorium on his own presence in the Chamber . |
| 19 | How much has Strathclyde regional council asked for to improve the roads programme , how much has the Secretary of State given , and how much has been earmarked or ring-fenced for the extension to the A77 to meet the M8 ? |
| 20 | In the meantime , I hope that the hon. Gentleman will welcome the £38 million increase in the roads programme next year — an increase of 10 per cent . |
| 21 | The cost of maintenance , the financial attractions of redevelopment the need for urban renewal , the roads programme and similar factors often threaten buildings which are of architectural or historic interest . |
| 22 | What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play . |
| 23 | What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play . |
| 24 | Contractors and skip firms should not deliver skips to customers unless the customer ( whose responsibility it is ) has obtained a permit from the roads department . |
| 25 | Some people say that trotting on the roads helps harden the horse 's legs while others maintain that too much trotting mean too much concussion on legs and feet ; I follow the latter view and so we stayed in walk with the occasional gentle trot uphill . |
| 26 | Many of the roads tracks and footpaths which link the village to its neighbours and to the fort were probably used by prehistoric and Roman people . |
| 27 | That would attract the Road Cavalry soon . |
| 28 | Formerly affiliated to the Psychopomps gangcult , her chapter was broken up in 1995 during a pitched battle with the Road Cavalry in Spanish Fork , Deseret , Jessamyn is now believed to be working alone . ’ |
| 29 | As well as the normal jockey wheels , these tanker trailers had a second air of jockey wheels , which worked in conjunction with a similar wheel fitted on the outside face of the road wheels . |
| 30 | Vibration in the suspension is minimised by special front subframe mountings and pendulum-type engine mountings which effectively decouple movements of the engine from those of the road wheels . |