Example sentences of "[verb] by road " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining Panguna employees were later evacuated by road , and it was reported that the PNG Army was retreating from the countryside in order to concentrate upon defending the island 's towns . |
| 2 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 3 | Not all customers are expected to come by road — new mooring points and landscaping on the neighbouring Grand Union Canal welcome any barges that may need re-stocking . |
| 4 | From Dale Head Tarn it is possible to cut across the top of High Scawdel to Honister Pass and then descend by road to Buttermere , partly across open fell and partly on footpath ( 1 mile ) . |
| 5 | It is not uncommon for goods to be carried by road from a European destination through several countries to a port , where they were then loaded on board a ship , taken to another continent and again despatched by road to their final destination . |
| 6 | Also with the mineral extractions now being carried by road transport , it is hoped that this can again be conveyed by rail along this beautiful line to the BR exchange sidings . |
| 7 | At present the timber felled in this district is carried by road to Montgomery Station , for despatch by railway . |
| 8 | The produce of one quarry is probably about 1,800 tons per annum , and is carried by road a distance of thirteen miles , then ground and sent by canal . |
| 9 | This week , we 'll be examining the need for bypasses more closely , and asking why so much freight is carried by road . |
| 10 | Leaders of Britain 's freight industry are calling on the European Commission to help free U K truck drivers trapped by road blocks on the French Spanish border . |
| 11 | Some 175 protected sites , including 50 Sites of Special Scientific Interest , are threatened by road schemes , environmentalists say . |
| 12 | Some 175 protected sites , including 50 Sites of Special Scientific Interest , are threatened by road schemes , environmentalists say . |
| 13 | A government committee is to report on whether a cash value should be placed on environmental features threatened by road building schemes . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Spitfires were arriving at Prestwick and a survey was conducted to determine if the aircraft could be transferred by road to Glasgow . |
| 15 | It is expected that the A–20 will be moved by road to the Weeks Museum in Florida , where it will be put back into stock flying condition . |
| 16 | From Rotterdam Cottage the cannabis was moved by road in vans to a garage in Station Road , Penge , South East London which , in the words of Scotland Yard 's drugs squad chief was " fortified almost as well as the Bank of England " . |
| 17 | Probably the notorious case of some rail coaches being moved by road came about in the same way . |
| 18 | Certainly it 's , it 's , it 's tricky for them , obviously we do n't know how long this strikes going to continue , and people in the area are facing er some initial food shortages , and basic commodities which would normally be moved by road , and indeed even as far as Bilbao this morning , there are a shortage of reported , of a , of basic necessities like milk and bread . |
| 19 | The Department of Transport does , however , put a cash value on the time saved by road users by the building of new roads . |
| 20 | Nine out of every ten journeys , whether passenger or freight , are made by road . |
| 21 | The railway connection no longer dominated the operation and most of the customers for both hotels and ferries came by road . |
| 22 | They came by road , they came by water , and the arrival of the railway much later added to Rorschach 's significance . |
| 23 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 24 | With the exception of bulk traffic like coal and other minerals , the world 's collection and distribution systems are now largely operated by road . |
| 25 | Easy to reach by road and rail , Sedgemoor is nearer than you think and whatever your needs — a family holiday by the sea — a weekend break in unspoilt countryside — or just a day out , a warm West Country welcome awaits you in Sedgemoor . |
| 26 | There was at the same time a dramatic decline in the amount of milk produced by urban cattle-keepers and supplied by road . |
| 27 | The reason is that a different body , the Technischer Überwachungs Verein ( tüv ) , has to approve gas cylinders that are transported by road . |
| 28 | A more serious constraint earlier had been the weight of components which had to be transported by road , but the adoption of hydrogen-cooling of the rotor ( pioneered in America before the War ) now made it possible to reduce the size of components in the larger sets . |
| 29 | Mice can be easily transported by road , rail or air . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , goods continued to be transported by road from Aqaba to Iraq . |