Example sentences of "to travel by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although Hampshire Bus 's successor , Stagecoach , in what we were told was splendid entrepreneurial fashion doubled its money in a fortnight by selling the coach station , it still left the problem that some people wanted to travel by coach .
2 Chemicals that in the Common Market are not allowed to travel by road , they 're forced on to rail .
3 Those 3 miles were the only ones the clay would have to travel by road on its journey via Liverpool and the Trent and Mersey canal to Wedgwood 's canalside Etruria .
4 High technology industries are not tied down by transport costs : one tonne of microchips is worth anything up to 100 000 times a tonne of steel plate , so chips tend to travel by air .
5 Many veterans have revisited Archangel and Murmansk in peacetime , but until now they have had to travel by air or overland .
6 ( A better alternative might be to travel by rail or plane to L'Orient , 30 miles west , and rent a car . )
7 Moreover , whereas it may be easy to collect fixed charges from consumers with telephone or gas installations , it is harder to enforce a fixed charge for the right to travel by rail and a fare per journey reflecting marginal cost .
8 Neither is it an expensive luxury for those who prefer to travel by rail .
9 It was most probably the closeness to the river that was the deciding factor in choosing the site , for the state of the roads at that time made it easier to travel by water .
10 They were the traditional way for the rich to travel by water — and in Egypt everyone travelled by water .
11 Another local said : ‘ Normally the police have to travel by convoy into the area for the sake of safety .
12 Local transport : Local buses link the various resorts on the lake ; though it 's much nicer to travel by ferry or hydrofoil .
13 He warned : ‘ It is much harder to encourage people to travel by public rather than private transport if buses are old , uncomfortable and unreliable . ’
14 A US military spokesman , Colonel Fred Peck , said yesterday he expected about 4,200 troops to travel by sea from Mogadishu to Kismayu within the next 24 hours .
15 The survey says : ‘ Those people who are prepared to travel by tunnel may be outvoted by their wives and families , so there could be a knock-on effect . ’
16 Minto and Maureen , accompanied by an Irish friend called Vera Henry and the dog Mr Papwoth , who had recovered his strength before going hence and being no more seen , were to travel by car .
17 The first has been the slow change-over from travel by train to travel by car .
18 Permission must be obtained to travel by car along the private road in Glen Farrar and , if granted , should be regarded as a great privilege for there is loveliness all the way to its terminus at Loch Monar , now a reservoir .
19 I deplore the laziness of people who feel the need to travel by car for any distance more than 100 yards .
20 According to Motability , adaptations to enable severely handicapped people to travel by car in their wheelchairs often cost as much as the vehicle itself .
21 Well you have to travel by car to the station .
22 I used to travel by bus a lot , so I had a season ticket .
23 He had felt greatly excited as he and his father got up at 5am to travel by bus and train from their home in Heywood , Lancashire to Ben Rhydding near Ilkley where the meeting was to take place .
24 They were objecting to having to travel by bus everyday to their laboratories and classrooms located on another site .
25 How does one convince BR that nobody is going to pay rail fares to travel by bus ?
26 Some people were forced to travel by bus because they had to be at work .
27 Some parents say they wo n't allow their children to travel by bus until the law is changed .
28 Certainly this man could afford to travel by train .
29 They were up at 5 am to travel by train to Elstree to get there by 7 am .
30 And er because of that then the price is out of the range for a lot of people to travel by train .
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