Example sentences of "[noun] be on the road " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes the ducks are on the road . |
| 2 | Burks & Hare are on the road with the Addams Family and the cast of Macbeth — all the funeral of the fair ! — and you 're stuck with the Inspiral Carpets , The Real People and Family Gotown . |
| 3 | UNIVERSITY of Ulster girl Sharon Cunningham is on the road to Rio . |
| 4 | She says I would like to go up to Manchester soon and I 'm hoping my car is on the road because the trains to Manchester are pretty costly compared to the price of the petrol in my car . |
| 5 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 6 | As he 'd told Alison , spitting and scratching were nothing new but that was mainly when the car was on the road . |
| 7 | Leading by 2 seconds after 2 days , McRae was on the road to victory ; the first for Britain in 16 years . |
| 8 | … or perhaps worse , your bull has broken into your neighbour 's heifers or your lambs are on the road where they could cause an accident . |
| 9 | The professionals will be driving for the world championship … a jackpot of a £100,000 … the amateurs the so called privateers are on the road for pride and pennies … |
| 10 | They were entitled in my judgment to take into account the actual use by the defendant company and the previous owner in determining what the ordinary use of that vehicle was on the road so far as it is relevant to the question they had to answer . |
| 11 | Gwen is on the road to recovery , and they plan a West Indies holiday together — after a year of painful radiotherapy and chemotherapy . |
| 12 | SICK pop idol Michael Jackson was on the road to recovery yesterday as furious fans slammed the way his Wembley concert was cancelled . |
| 13 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 14 | Even the , what few bits of lorries were on the road , they had a special mask on with er a shield over the top , so that the light was n't visible up above . |
| 15 | He has been idolised by fictional characters from Dean Moriarty in Kerouac 's On the Road to Barley in Le Carre 's The Russia House , and he is one of only two people looked up to by Miles Davis . |
| 16 | The beatniks , the bomb banners and campus peace groups were still a fairly intense crowd , dressed in their turtleneck sweaters and jeans , and using Jack Kerouac 's On the Road as their symbol , their bible and guide to escapism and backseat sex . |
| 17 | The open air theme , eventually to become epitomized by visions of Woodstock and the Rolling Stones performing live in Hyde Park , was itself a throwback from Kerouac 's On the Road : because the road became the central symbol of his disciples ' lives — hitting it in search of new horizons when the local scene became dull . |
| 18 | It was the ultimate biker-drug-sex film , which also owed a lot to Kerouac 's On The Road . |
| 19 | But 1957 was its year , with the publication of Jack Kerouac 's On the Road . |
| 20 | By last month tens of thousands of people were on the road to the few relief centres that the government runs . |
| 21 | Now these tragic people were on the road . |
| 22 | At the same time , a number of leading liberal church leaders in Northern Ireland became involved in negotiations with the IRA to establish a cease-fire.s Thus the conservative Protestant critic of the ecumenical movement can equate ecumenism and terrorism and , given that the ecumenical movement is on the road to Rome , Rome can be equated with the IRA . |
| 23 | British No. 1 Jo Durie was on the road coaching young prospects in Scotland and the North of England . |
| 24 | The current tour is on the road for 11 weeks before a London season . |
| 25 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 26 | Humans are on the road to accepting what they call the Gaia Principle , which sees Earth 's living matter as one . |
| 27 | It was easy to assume , in the euphoria of this new found self-reliance which Israel found so difficult to break , that the occupied territories were on the road to political freedom . |
| 28 | We hired the Cemetery Road Vestry Hall , organized a bar and some records and the show was on the road . |
| 29 | ‘ McEnroe was on the road and there was Tatum and her fellow in this private , romantic booth , ’ said one . |
| 30 | The one concession to it you see a lot of in the French Basque country is on the road signs which now duplicate the French place-names with their Basque equivalents . |