Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] roads [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 2 | The tar on the roads glistened like liquid quicksilver . |
| 3 | Ten qualifications in excavation and reinstatement on the roads have been developed to meet the needs of the new Roads and Street Works 1991 Act . |
| 4 | Perhaps there was a wider Government view : limiting expenditure on the roads enabled the railways to survive the pressure of growing competition from road transport . |
| 5 | Seasonal conditions which inhibited or prevented travel on the roads have been made much of by historians , but the mushrooming growth in scheduled services after 1760 is testimony to a substantial improvement in this respect . |