Example sentences of "the [noun sg] on [art] streets " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearby River Great Ouse was higher than the level on the streets . |
| 2 | If we allow this thing to become about stopping the violence on the streets , once the violence stops we 'll think we 've solved something , when in reality we 've solved nothing . |
| 3 | The need to secure obedience to the laws passed by Parliament is said to limit what Parliament can do in a situation in which there are those who are prepared to openly defy the law on the streets , with strikes , and with the gun . |
| 4 | Mr Bush described Mr Giuliani as ‘ America 's greatest crime fighter ’ , and the evidence of the anarchy on the streets was on the television news for all to see . |
| 5 | Wiped out by a five-hour flight to a city where riding the subway is an act of hedonism , and where the pollution on the streets works on the brain like speed , driving people scrambling to the summits of New York City 's towers of granite and power . |
| 6 | Sadly she had the baby on the streets whilst only eight months pregnant . |
| 7 | Since such a system seemed well founded in Britain it chose to ignore British fascism , unlike the Communist Party , which was prepared to fight the BUF on the streets at Olympia and Cable Street . |
| 8 | But these things stand out because they go against the trend on the streets — and in parliament . |
| 9 | Mr Condon , 45 , currently Chief Constable of Kent who takes over as the Met 's youngest-ever Commissioner in February , added that bombs still went off in Northern Ireland despite having the army on the streets . |
| 10 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 11 | The word on the streets of Galway last week was that hardware manufacturing with its 800 jobs had gone by the wayside . |
| 12 | Life has become increasingly dangerous for the officer on the streets these days . |