Example sentences of "[det] as roads " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has not extended to the maintenance of capital assets once established , and of infrastructure such as roads , railways , and buildings . |
| 2 | The type and degree of infrastructure such as roads and storage facilities , institutions such as banks , agricultural extension development projects , fiscal and monetary and pricing policy , the legal structure of land tenure and of environmental protection and conservation ; the state 's degree of intervention in international imports and exports — all these are part of an explanation of soil erosion . |
| 3 | Capital projects such as roads fall into an intermediate category ; while they may usually have few , if any , direct implications , roads are frequently used in the UK 's LFAs to gain access to more remote uplands with a view to future moorland/ rough grassland conversions . |
| 4 | All lines on maps , depicting features such as roads , contours and boundaries , are drawn so as to be easily visible to the user . |
| 5 | The Planning department was mainly concerned with County-wide planning and design aspects , and the Highways department with the detailed design of specific structures such as roads and bridges , including control and implementation of changes . |
| 6 | What Wagener 's Law suggested was that the expansion of public services reflected the ‘ exigencies of industrialisation ’ — as a nation industrialises it develops needs for collectively provided goods such as roads , sewers transport , and so on . |
| 7 | Welcome though many of the Government 's proposals are for reducing the demand for aggregates ( PIP 6.20 ) , the efficient use of materials , different approaches to construction , increasing the price of aggregates , making better use of waste materials and introducing voluntary codes by the public sector to use less material , will prove insufficient unless they are reinforced by a development strategy that questions the need for aggregates-intensive development , such as roads . |
| 8 | Welcome though many of the Government 's proposals are for reducing the demand for aggregates ( PIP 6.20 ) , the efficient use of materials , different approaches to construction , increasing the price of aggregates , making better use of waste materials and introducing voluntary codes by the public sector to use less material , will prove insufficient unless they are reinforced by a development strategy that questions the need for aggregates-intensive development , such as roads . |
| 9 | In certain topographical regions , linear patterns may develop if water is at a premium , as in the chalk valleys , or if factors other than subsistence are important , such as roads or water routes . |
| 10 | Public capital includes many of the physical assets on which everyday life depends , such as roads , reservoirs , schools and hospitals . |
| 11 | The Survival Study area was divided into 185 geographical areas ( clusters ) based on boundaries such as roads , paths , or streams , with 30–77 compounds in a cluster ( mean 51 ) ; the cluster was used as the unit of randomisation . |
| 12 | But this will mean a decline in capital projects such as roads , housing , schools and sewers , with the net result that there is a decline in the country 's infrastructure and long-term damage to the economy . |