Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] on [art] streets " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Like thousands of children in Guatemala , Nahaman had lived a life of poverty on the streets ; begging , shining shoes , sleeping under benches and parked cars , stealing , sniffing glue ; like many his death was violent . |
| 3 | Such opulence looked out of place on the streets of Prague , where the riches are in the historic architecture — and the best of that , sensibly , is in a traffic-free zone . |
| 4 | The private was the nest of domestic virtues : the public was the arena of prostitution , of vice on the streets . |
| 5 | In East Berlin , the well-known opposition figure , Pastor Rainer Eppelmann , said the talks set an example for the whole country , and called for a two-week period of calm on the streets . |
| 6 | The election campaign included forcing all newspaper sales off the streets , widespread use of violence and thuggery , arson attacks on offices and homes , the takeover of the local radio station by the NSDAP and exchanges of gunfire on the streets . |
| 7 | After the phenomenal success of In Which We Serve , the Italian producer Filippo del Giudice , whose belief in high-budget artistic filmmaking was in line with Rank 's , attached his Two Cities company to Independent Producers , and made through it such films as the Lean-Coward This Happy Breed ; Laurence Olivier 's rampantly patriotic version of Shakespeare 's Henry V ( 1945 ) ; Thorold Dickinson 's unbalanced Men of Two Worlds ( 1946 , Witch Doctor in US ) and Carol Reed 's Odd Man Out ( 1945 , Gang War in US ) , the story of a dying gunman 's desperate search for charity on the streets of Belfast . |
| 8 | The Tory concern is not with that kind of domestic warfare , but with war on the streets . |
| 9 | The TUC General Council made history by failing to urge members to vote Labour , and a march in Birmingham yesterday headed by Bill Jordan , president of the AEU , and Mr Lyons was one of the rare occasions when trade union support has been out in force on the streets . |
| 10 | They were also out in force on the streets when thousands of anti-Nazi demonstrators — Turks and Germans — gathered in Solingen . |
| 11 | MARINES were out in force on the streets of Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 12 | The safety rules for life on the streets in the United Kingdom ( listed in Chapter Six of this book ) apply equally abroad , and you must be extra vigilant in hotels and other public places about pickpockets and thieves . |
| 13 | As the hunt for the 20-year-old 's killer stretches into its second week , Lothian and Borders Assistant Chief Constable Tom Wood appealed for calm on the streets . |
| 14 | Returned to the invisibility of the home front , where we should have been all along , unaccounted for among the statistics of unemployment , stuck with the main responsibility for unpaid community care as the welfare state collapsed , women have seen the major characteristics of the depression of the 1980s depicted as male and youth unemployment , the destruction of men 's jobs , small businessmen going bankrupt and resentment turning to violence on the streets . |
| 15 | In 1975 a television documentary ‘ Johnny Go Home ’ about runaway children , estimated 2000 per night on the streets of London , and caused an uproar in the press , public and parliament ( Deakin and Willis , 1976 ) . |
| 16 | The creation of Zia Mohyeddin , who handles executive production and a major role in the series , FAMILY PRIDE is filmed on location on the streets of Birmingham . |
| 17 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |