Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [art] roads " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two stages of the three-week race will be decided on the roads of Dover , Brighton and Portsmouth to mark the opening of the tunnel . |
| 2 | And they have to be supervised on the roads — traffic here is mad compared to what they are used to . ’ |
| 3 | There were still to be found on the roads a vagrant population of Celtic wanderers from Scotland or Ireland , and those who followed the travelling occupations like chapmen , pedlars and itinerant entertainers , as well as the true travelling people , the gypsies and tinkers . |
| 4 | That fool should n't be allowed on the roads . ’ |
| 5 | And that , say police , is the reason why so many cyclists are hit on the roads . |
| 6 | The optimum completion time has come down by one minute to 11 minutes and more time is being allowed on the roads and tracks section before the cross country . |
| 7 | Although there are around 13,000 hospital admissions in the UK annually due to playground accidents , fatalities are very rare , whereas in 1988 , 282 children were killed on the roads . |
| 8 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 9 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 10 | ‘ Drivers want to be able to put the same smart card in a holder ( or a different card in the same holder ) whether driving in the Netherlands or on a French autoroute , ’ says Ian Catling , a member of an EC group which is ensuring that electronic Babel is avoided on the roads . |
| 11 | OWNERS of motor vehicles are sitting ducks for avaricious chancellors who already screw them for far more cash in fuel and vehicle tax than is spent on the roads . |
| 12 | The manager of the Commandery Centre , Richard Townsley says : ’ Worcester was a very important city geographically , it was situated on the roads across to Wales , down to Oxford and into London . |