Example sentences of "[prep] the road to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were on the south side of a small sea fjord , the head of which formed a junction for the road to Nusfjord . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't worry about that , ’ he said dismissively , and focused his attention on the traffic of Haverfordwest as he skirted the town to make for the road to Carmarthen . |
| 3 | Nowhere was the stolid exceptionalism of the British more evident than in the rejection of constitutional reform and in the way in which Conservatives sought to portray this reform as the road to chaos — as if the US , Australia , Germany , Spain and other developed democracies had not prospered with more representative systems . |
| 4 | Within the next few months the silence in the Left media was further broken by articles criticizing councils such as Haringey for ‘ moralism ’ , suggesting that anti-heterosexist policies were undermining Labour 's traditional family-based support , and advocating psychoanalytic theory as the road to lesbian and gay liberation . |
| 5 | Crow Wood was empty for most of this century , remote and forgotten between the roads to Easby and Ingleby . |
| 6 | The land in question , in the fork between the road to Kimbolton and that to Goldington , also included tracts belonging to the Duke of Bedford and Samuel Whitbread . |
| 7 | Turn right off the road to Nairn , by the castle , then past woods by a duck-thronged mere , turn to the west , that is , left , off the lane into a similarly tight by-road and , around a corner , stands Macbeth 's Hillock . |
| 8 | The church seems to be slightly set away from the village , and is very elusive as you drive through , being only reached either through a farmyard or down a lane off the road to Wansford . |
| 9 | The tunnelling that the Frenchman was paid — and handsomely — to supervise was off the road to Arbil , close to the village of Salahuddin , due north of Baghdad . |
| 10 | If this were achieved , it would sever the Warsaw-Kiev railway and also give Austria command of the road to Brest-Litovsk , thus threatening all the Russian positions to the east of Warsaw . |
| 11 | This was the beginning of the road to Hinkley Point . |
| 12 | The few in existence up to 1706 had their administrative authority vested , as in the continuing case of the public parish roads , in the justices of the peace at quarter sessions , but from that date , beginning with acts relating to two stretches of the road to Holyhead , in Bedfordshire and in Worcestershire , independent trustees took over the administration of the tolls and the responsibility for road maintenance . |
| 13 | I feel a fraud , a bit-part player in a soft and southern version of The Road To Wigan Pier . |
| 14 | The end of the road to Flamborough Head brings one to the octagonal old lighthouse , built of stone in 1674 by Sir John Clayton . |
| 15 | Sca Fell and Snowdonia … and swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water … yesterday in wales they tackled Lake Bala … in between the swimming and running the rest of the road to lands end is on the bike … whay are they doing it … for charity they 're hoping to raise over five thousand pounds |
| 16 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 17 | I know how context influences the effects of alcohol and realise this was a highly artificial situation , but it was still difficult to ignore the terrible predictability of the road to drunkenness : its fixed stages — a brief and seductive period of social effervescence and then the rapid departure of self-consciousness and the ugly appearance of righteousness . |
| 18 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |
| 19 | Though the world 's press has done its best , huge gaps remain in public knowledge of the road to war . |
| 20 | When the girls reached the lowest part of the road to Mellstock , they found it was flooded . |
| 21 | Athol Fugard is also the author of The Road To Mecca , Blood Knot , Boesman and Lena and other plays . |
| 22 | From long experience he knew that one of the roads to problem solving was to allow time for the sub-conscious mind to operate . |
| 23 | Not wishing to drop them in a crater , he obligingly pointed them towards the road to Belleek . |
| 24 | The gallows were situated on the ‘ Lings ’ near the road to Little Casterton ( on the site of the brickworks ) . |
| 25 | WITH the road to recovery blocked , profits of hauliers NFC stayed jammed at £66 million in the first nine months of this trading year . |
| 26 | She turned away and carrying the basket with great care , walked on up the road to Tace Way . |
| 27 | After giving his small escort strict instructions , Corbett , accompanied by Ranulf and Maltote , left by the Galilee Gate and thundered along the track , through the silent village and up the road to Woodstock . |
| 28 | are you going up the road to town then ? |
| 29 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 30 | So if you go up the road to Epping their elections take up all the councillors that are elected together . |