noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coast road
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In summer the coast road is very crowded.
a road bridge (= for cars )
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The government plans to construct a new road bridge to the island.
a road map
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a road map of Texas
a road race (= when people run, cycle etc on ordinary roads )
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She regularly competes in 10 kilometre road races.
a road tunnel
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a road tunnel through the mountains
a road/rail/air crash
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There will be an investigation into the cause of the air crash.
a road/traffic accident
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The number of traffic accidents has gone down.
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Portugal has one of Western Europe’s worst road accident rates.
a steep path/road
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She stood at the top of the steep path leading down to the beach.
access road
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the access road to the farm
approach road
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an approach road
be on the road to oblivion (= to be becoming forgotten or unimportant over a fairly long period of time )
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Is this ancient tradition on the road to oblivion?
be on the road to ruin (= be certain to happen at some time in the future )
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Is America on the road to ruin?
busy road
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We live on a very busy road .
by air/sea/land/road/rail etc
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All supplies are transported by air.
cross (over) the road/street/river etc
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It’s easy to have an accident just crossing the road.
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He was hit by a car when he tried to cross over the road near Euston station.
dirt road
divert a river/footpath/road etc
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Canals divert water from the Truckee River into the lake.
further down the road (= in the future )
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It might be a sign, much further down the road , of a change in policy.
(have) one for the road (= have one last alcoholic drink before you leave a place )
high road
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Daley has taken the high road in his campaign.
lonely place/road/spot etc
main road
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We live just off the main road.
narrow street/road/path etc
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a long narrow road
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the narrow passage between the cottage and the house
open road (= a road without traffic where you can drive fast )
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The car’s performance is good, especially going fast on the open road .
relief road
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an eastern relief road for city traffic
ring road
road atlas
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a road atlas of Europe
road casualties
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Our aim is to reduce road casualties .
road hog
road manager
road map
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a road map to the United States Constitution
road pricing
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road pricing schemes for congested cities
road rage
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Road rage seems to be on the increase.
road safety (= for people driving and walking on roads )
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Extra lighting would improve road safety in this area.
road sign
road tax
road test
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All our vehicles are roadtested before they are sold.
road transport
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Buses are the safest form of road transport in this country.
road trip
road users
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Did you signal to let other road users know you were turning right?
road warrior
rocky road
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The company faces a rocky road ahead.
side road
single track road
slip road
the rail/road system (= all the roads or railways in a country )
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Traffic problems are made worse by the country’s inadequate road system.
three-lane motorway/highway/road
toll road
trunk road
turn off the road/motorway etc
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Mark turned off the highway and into Provincetown.
well-trodden path/road/ground etc
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Andrew was on his well-trodden path to conquering another willing lady.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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But once you're used to it the bike feels totally comfortable scratching through the twists and turns of back roads .
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That afternoon I drove nonstop over the back roads of Ames and Bern townships.
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She knew every mile of the back roads to Kells through Kilcock, Trim and Fordstown.
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A far better alternative was to walk the back roads and country lanes.
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But I slip down a couple of back roads and I find it soon enough.
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People always honk at me for that so I try to take the back roads .
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But don't get carried away with thoughts of throwing an agile Harley around the back roads .
busy
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Read in studio Finally, traffic on a busy road was brought to a standstill this afternoon ... by a train.
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My grandparents' village was a small place off the main road , away from busy roads and with no mains services.
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It's amazing how many schools that front busy roads have name boards but no notice boards.
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You must also choose an area where there is little traffic, with no busy roads nearby.
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He stepped on to the busy road and dragged badly injured Scott clear of the traffic.
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For this reason, start by choosing a relatively quiet environment rather than a busy road .
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Picture the surface of a busy road on a very hot day in summer.
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When the youngsters want to go outside and play they have to leave via the backdoor which opens on to a busy road .
lonely
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We don't want that, and we don't want Gatso speed cameras mounted on lonely moorland roads .
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Not even the hint of an antenna is visible from the lonely two-lane public road that passes about a mile away.
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This is an insular community, its only link with the rest of the world being the lonely Glenelg road .
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They remind you of a bunch of schoolboys wandering down a lonely road , kicking a ball along.
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So it was on that fog-bound, lonely London road .
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Passersby in Los Angeles left snapdragons on the lonely road where Ennis Cosby was slain by an unknown gunman.
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She glanced into the rear-view mirror, convinced that hers was the only car on this lonely road .
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Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open, footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road .
long
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The long wet road , with its facades of dreary little shops, felt empty suddenly, and somehow threatening.
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The enclosure turned the Broyle into the landscape of ploughland bisected by long straight roads that it still remains.
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Paper poured out in a long road , paved with hieroglyphics.
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She knew she had to travel on a long , stony road , without help or sympathy.
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Still, there was a long road ahead of me.
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It's a long , long road to success.
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The house was on a long road that went from pavement to dirt and back to pavement.
main
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Newman spotted the track leading off to the right and swung away from the main road .
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And both Yosemite and SequoiaKing National Parks became inaccessible as rising water washed out their main access roads but created new waterfalls.
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Had she been coming from London straight to Feliburn she could have stayed on the main road all the way.
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He turned into the main road that ran parallel with the unseen river.
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Detectives say some one on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night.
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Within a few yards of the main road , I was in the kind of tangle of narrow streets where the wide-boys operate.
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She knew where the track was and she also knew where the main road joined it.
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To the south of the camps is the main road from Moscow to Kuibyshev and ultimately to Tashkent.
narrow
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The place fascinated me - narrow country roads , little lost villages, great shingle beaches and lonely salt marshes.
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Sanibel is big-time touristy now, its narrow roads crammed with bicycles, cars, vans, construction equipment and delivery vehicles.
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They were back in a narrow country road and there were powerful lights behind them.
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She turned and looked up the narrow dirt road .
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Three hundred metres down this narrow road , opposite a red sandstone church, are the meadows.
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Yet motor traffic too would benefit from these, because cyclists can hold up traffic on narrow , congested roads .
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Today a narrow road follows closely the eleven mile perimeter of inlets and bays.
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The engine was started up, revving violently as the car was turned round on the narrow road .
new
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Soon it will be strong enough for vehicles, and a new road system will open.
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We can and will build new roads , new shopping malls and multiplexes.
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Where new road patterns or a new shopping centre affect trade, appeal.
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Is this bridleway to run alongside this new road ?
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The new road is a dual 2-lane carriageway, 9.3 metres wide incorporating 1-metre-wide hard strips at each edge.
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Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979, and is planned to double again.
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It was, of course, laudable to clear the rookeries; essential to drive new roads through slum areas.
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In recent years a new coastal road has been built from Ribeira Brava to Tabua.
open
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On the open road , it's no use pretending that the Bentley handles with the agility of a Porsche.
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We ate in the fields or on the open road .
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If your equipment has to go outside on open roads or gravelled surfaces, remember castors are not always suitable.
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The current barrier was installed in 1972, after residents submitted a petition saying the open road caused traffic hazards.
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Daniel Boone heard it: the siren song of the open road , beckoning him to pack up and go.
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Do you relish the prospect of the open road ?
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Racing on open roads was subsequently banned and the great Paris races came to an end.
■ NOUN
access
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Car drivers will now have to negotiate the dangers of an access road hidden by a bend on a hill.
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Only by driving down the restricted and guarded government access road leading to the site can one see the valley of antennas.
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The path to the left leads to the Old Ing farm access road above High Birkwith.
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And both Yosemite and SequoiaKing National Parks became inaccessible as rising water washed out their main access roads but created new waterfalls.
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Would follow a route east of the existing road , bypassing local communities and leaving A701 as a quiet access road.
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Local or access roads , or on-ramps, simplify linkages between businesses, schools, and homes to the communications backbone.
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Included in this area is a temporary access road from the B1348 coast road to the beach.
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Never drive unaccompanied on quarry access roads , used by marble-transporting trucks.
accident
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Tracing witnesses Unfortunately, in road accident cases, advertising for witnesses rarely produces results.
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This area was specifically targeted because of the high level of involvement of people living there in road accidents .
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Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis.
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Of course, road accidents and pedestrian tumbles would also increase alarmingly as wind-blown polymer dust spread round the locality.
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Report on the potential of a short video to demonstrate the importance of accuracy in collecting road accident information.
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In 1987 Mr Keyse was disabled in a road accident while returning home from a day's work at Llanfair Caereinion station.
country
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The road , narrow as any country road, was a single-lane journey for any vehicle.
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She was later picked up on a country road by a passing citizen, police said.
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Even without tolls, country roads are likely to be three times as busy in 2025 as they are today.
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The Sunday morning crash happened near a country road about 25 miles southwest of Portland.
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He pressed his foot down, sped along the country road which was free of other traffic.
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As an illustration, imagine a child walking down a country road with his father.
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Some of these visitors will be unaccustomed to country roads and to the hazards of walking along a road with no footpath.
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There were kids traveling to and from school down the country road through the woods.
dirt
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Landmines hidden in the dirt roads are the weapons the farmers hate most.
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We were a mile down a dirt road .
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After that it's a dirt road , but fairly new.
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We were bumping along a dirt road when a storm gathered dark clouds above us.
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We reached Ebenat after a four-hour drive along dirt roads from the town of Gondar.
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Nearby, blue-painted rocks are strewn on the dirt road known as the Gravel Pit.
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We came on to the dirt road and a woman in a fluttering robe of pale pink organza walked towards us.
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Every now and then a car rumbled over the bumpy dirt road , leaving behind a whirl of white dust.
map
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All I had for guidance was Donald's photocopied road map .
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Hey, Willie, how about sending down a busload of Muni drivers who can read a road map ?
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They're not like road maps , more a kind of spiritual map, showing significant places.
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It is a low-risk, high-reward chance for you to see if your road map works.
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And that leaves out Path statements that read like a road map of your hard disk.
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By comparison, the performance pattern of management, sales, and manufacturing amounted to a virtual road map for disaster.
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Strong alternatives include: Using new technology can be like following a complicated road map .
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A road map of his travels up and down the West.
ring
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All the good spots are close to the ring road .
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I stayed with him in the heavy traffic round the ring road , skirting the city centre and out towards Bingley.
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Access at the bottom of Tubwell Row to the ring road might have to be controlled by traffic lights.
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Nine tenths of the Leicester ring road is finished and has been for some years.
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She fills up with petrol on the ring road .
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Back beside the ring road and the footbridge.
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It is so obvious that they should all stay outside the ring road except for the bus station where they would all terminate.
safety
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Roads minister Kenneth Carlisle unveiled the measures after six months of consultation with road safety groups.
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Libraries are also being targeted and static displays are being used to highlight road safety .
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Where needed the Police are supplying road safety literature, advice and instruction.
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Diabetes can cause road safety problems.
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He has been chairman of the road safety committee since 1986.
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This weekend road safety officers will offer free checks at a car safety centre in Milton Keynes.
side
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Pulling out of side roads when it is not safe to do so.
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The side roads are for locals and tourists; these big dudes are made for voyagers.
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An escape route may be a back door, a side road or a low wall fronting a garden.
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They vowed that the side roads would be clear by this morning.
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The Jaguar slowed down and he pulled off the main highway into a side road .
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I only know it was somewhere in a side road , where Highway i comes into Saigon.
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He didn't see who was in the car and it went up a side road .
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He shone his hand-lamp into the car and then, without speaking, opened the gate across a side road .
sign
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This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently, a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs .
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Through our windshields we see road signs and tail-lights-technology has blinkered us.
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Takes minutes to drive 6 miles into centre of Bideford due to endlessness of roads and imbecilic road signs .
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Drop the requirement for use of the metric system on road signs .
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It didn't say Blackberry Hill anywhere, there was just an old-fashioned road sign saying Broughton Street was four miles away.
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Mammoth road signs do their best to ensure that such oversights do not occur.
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Fisher's study also suggested that recall was not a good measure of whether a road sign had been heeded.
transport
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After much deliberation, six horse-drawn vehicles were selected to complement the existing road transport collections.
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Other agreements were concluded concerning border crossings, agricultural, scientific and cultural co-operation, recognition of educational qualifications and road transport .
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Section 8 grants A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry.
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This stopped after the bad winter of 1962-3 in the face of increasing competition from road transport on the new motorway system.
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The biggest growth in carbon dioxide emissions, implicated in the major problem confronting humanity's survival, is from road transport .
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Sea, inland waterway, and road transport came under the control of the Commissariat as well as the railways.
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Cost benefit analysis particularly in conjunction with road transport .
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Unless you specialize in this form of road transport , you are likely to fall outside the strict confines of statutory regulations.
trip
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The Bucks concluded a four-game road trip with a 1-3 record.
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She has a short ruse anyway; road trips make it shorter.
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For example, what year was the road trip ?
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This is Jess's last road trip , her final four Pac-10 games.
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To be sure, too much detail would detract from the ritual of the road trip / quest myth.
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He also did not accompany the team when it left for Pittsburgh last night for a five-day, two-game road trip .
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Cal and Stanford so far have tried, and failed, to sweep the Washington road trip .
trunk
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The school is situated half way between Maidstone and Ashford on the A20 trunk road .
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By 1676 it was part of the main Oxford to Coventry road and of course remains as a major trunk road today.
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Yet, on minor roads as well as trunk roads, studies find that standards are declining.
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It enables continued good progress on the A74 and further improvements to the M8 and other trunk roads and local roads.
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Why not a cost-benefit analysis of trunk roads ?
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Patching the cracks and filling in the potholes falls to the County Council everywhere except trunk roads and motorways.
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Some 40 new ones will be opened by 1995 on trunk road alone.
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This completes the link between the A8 and the A1 trunk roads .
■ VERB
build
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They were opposing the building of a road over a burial site.
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When Brown built a plank road from his hotel to the Falls, Forsyth ripped it up.
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We are going to build roads !
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Training an animal is like building a road .
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Congress also voted to assign the customs from the ports of San BIas and Mazatlan to build roads from them to Guadalajara.
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We will investigate ways of speeding up, within the Department of Transport, the procedures for building new roads .
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During the occupation, the army trained a military, built roads , and opened schools.
cross
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At present, bears regularly cross the little-used road at several points.
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In that one, a chicken crosses a road to get to a Budweiser.
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Spouthouse Aqueduct crosses a minor road , by which stand Dyas Take Away and a supermarket.
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David, crossed by several roads . 6.
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The children can walk to school without crossing a road anywhere.
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They cross roads diagonally, walk in front of parked cars and forget to look in more than one direction at junctions.
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He was hit by a truck as he crossed a road in Auckland.
drive
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It will drive people on to the roads .
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For a while he drove the winding club roads , past the wrecked tennis courts, the empty swimming pool.
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At first there was silence as they drove along the quiet road , simply enjoying being close to each other.
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When you drive in, the road narrows, the metal guard rail is replaced by a hand laid rock wall.
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He made his case in the car, driving the dark road .
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It was, of course, laudable to clear the rookeries; essential to drive new roads through slum areas.
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For hours we drove on roads which Rand McNally &038; Company considers unworthy of notice.
follow
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Strong alternatives include: Using new technology can be like following a complicated road map.
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They expected that the orders to buy junk bonds would soon follow their road show.
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The route follows minor roads , woodland paths, paths across fields and cliff-tops as you cross Whitecliff Bay to reach Sandown.
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A just imam must follow the road already laid out which leads the community to happiness on earth and in the Beyond.
hit
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Gina Coulstock, 18, stumbled, fell heavily and was knocked out when she hit the road .
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After fifteen minutes of rough riding, we finally hit a macadam road not completely parked over with cars for the concert.
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So next time you hit the road make sure it doesn't hit back.
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Travelers will find it more comfortable and interesting to hit the road this year.
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Read in studio Well it's time now to hit the road with the London Sydney car marathon.
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We packed up and hit the road .
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And that, say police, is the reason why so many cyclists are hit on the roads .
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Time to hit the road again.
lead
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When he got outside he turned to the right, up to the mountain road leading to his home.
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Veer left and left again, passing the road that leads into Fish Canyon.
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Along the road leading to it were many altars and shrines and there are also remains which could belong to a theatre.
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All roads led back to Jessica.
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He drove out of Grantley and along the road that led to the village of Woodham.
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Only by driving down the restricted and guarded government access road leading to the site can one see the valley of antennas.
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I never doubted that I was on a road that led somewhere.
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A well-graded road leads south, over a bridge, crosses the freeway and continues into the desert.
run
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Spurred on by a new hope, she ran across the road and scrambled up the smooth grassy side of the hillock.
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The four desperadoes took off after us, running up the road as their gun barrels glinted in the light.
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Peter Beard chased and arrested McKitten after he was almost run off the road .
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It shared them with the rickety railway line which ran parallel to the road .
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The harpies from Paris running the road houses which must inevitably multiply will be a worse scourge than the mosquitoes.
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The last they ever saw of him, he was running up the road holding his guts in.
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We crawled out of the drain, saw the coast clear, and ran down the road together.
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With the light, it feels colder and I run down the road a bit to warm myself up.
turn
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Horowitz watched it turn on to the road and vanish.
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He reached a gate and turned from the road .
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The jeep reached the River Orne and we turned off the road on to a narrow path just wide enough for the jeep.
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By now we were close to my farm, coasting down off the ridge, the headlights turning the gravel road white.
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He hurried on, sighting Clare and Underwood in the distance just turning off the main road up the hill.
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They turned off the B road at the junction and drove down the narrow track to the cottages.
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At Gédre, you can turn off the Gavarnie road to the east and drive up to the alternative Cirque de Troumouse.
walk
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I was always a stick walking down the road with a flat chest.
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He grew frightened for her and walked down the road in the direction she should be coming from.
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I was walking along the road and all of a sudden this police car drew up beside me.
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When we got in the Mekong, soldiers were walking on the road and they saw us.
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So a television picture changed at the same time as you saw your ex-lover walking down the road opposite.
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Captain Samphan was walking fast across the road in the middle distance, ordering some of the troops into the paddy field.
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I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and couldn't wait to have him fit again.
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They walked back to the road .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a road map to peace
a road map to sth
back street/lane/road etc
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A far better alternative was to walk the back roads and country lanes.
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And this was how many such agents lived, in rooms in the back streets of cities.
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I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.
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Iain and Tommy drank together on the back streets of Pinner.
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Now they left the main road for the quieter, dimmer back streets.
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People always honk at me for that so I try to take the back roads.
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That afternoon I drove nonstop over the back roads of Ames and Bern townships.
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The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.
fast road
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But at the summit there's a fast road down if you take yourself too seriously.
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Gone is the wide fast road and its dangerous crossing, where the stripes gave walkers a false sense of security.
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Wear a helmet, especially if using fast roads.
hit the road/trail
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Doogie allowed himself a small smile of satisfaction as Shifty-Eyes hit the road, then he turned and grabbed Pointy-Beard's tie.
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Gina Coulstock, 18, stumbled, fell heavily and was knocked out when she hit the road.
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Read in studio Well it's time now to hit the road with the London Sydney car marathon.
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So next time you hit the road make sure it doesn't hit back.
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Time to hit the road again.
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Travelers will find it more comfortable and interesting to hit the road this year.
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Tyros get kick-started by taking shoeless jaunts around their house, back yard and neighborhood before hitting the trail.
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We packed up and hit the road.
hold the road
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Lucker has difficulty holding the road.
let's get this show on the road
rail/road/telephone etc link
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Excellent road and rail links make access easy from all parts of the country.
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However, outlying villages had been attacked and the city's rail link with Phnom Penh was frequently severed.
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In many cases they have the public on their side as the recent furore over the rail links with London has demonstrated.
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Newby is a quiet village between the busy A65 and the old road linking Ingleton and Clapham with road access to both.
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The houses will be for people who have to move out of Bentham Drive to make way for a new rail link .
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Through the World's Edge Mountains great fortified underground roads linked their underground cities.
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When it was first launched in 1982 a Minitel terminal consisted of a small monitor with a keyboard and a telephone link .
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Will he take note of the campaign to sink the link , as the channel tunnel rail link passes Gravesend and Northfleet?
road to Damascus
road-rage/air-rage etc
stick to the path/road etc
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For now she stuck to the road which took her to the right, towards the sea.
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So please stick to the path at this site and hopefully nothing else will need to be done.
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They clung to the towns, venturing out only by day, their big battalions sticking to the roads.
take the (moral) high road
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Daley has taken the high road in his campaign, trying to ignore Merriam's attacks.
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Instead, I decided to take the high road.
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Read in studio Still to come on Central News, taking the high road.
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She was at least making the attempt to take the high road, only to run into a dead end.
the bottom of a road/garden etc
the end of the road/line
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Monday's loss was the end of the line for Martin, who finished third in the tournament.
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At the end of the line, the local authority careers service is called in to rescue what remains of this shambles.
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At the end of the road, a four-foot-tall rock cairn stands between us and the beach.
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Disappointed, I dragged myself to the end of the line.
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For river people all along the Missouri and Mississippi valleys, Fort Benton was the end of the line.
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Had the mighty champions really reached the end of the road?
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Hop on over to the end of the road and give her a tinkle.
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The sale marks the end of the line for the 61-year-old chain, which has had a rocky recent history.
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This is the end of the road for Pharaoh and his people.
through road
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I know its London shrieks and shuffles as it rushes through road canyons and around the sharp edges of tall buildings.
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The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.
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The old lane was in use down to comparatively recent times as a through road from Northampton to Banbury.
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The original through road is still in existence at the top and the bottom of the picture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a small Texas road
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A widow lives in the house just across the road .
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As you leave the city, turn right and take the road to Madrid.
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Before crossing the road , stop, look, and listen.
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I like driving on the French roads - they're so straight, and there isn't much traffic.
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I live at 37 King's Road , Birmingham.
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I went to the girls' school down the road .
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It's amazing how many schools front busy roads.
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Route 66 used to be one of the main roads across the States.
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Something was lying in the gutter by the side of the road .
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Susie used to live on this road .
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They're building a new road around the city centre.
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They turned left at the gas station, into the busy main road .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A recent major study of traffic problems in the Edinburgh area recognised road safety as a major factor for consideration.
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All three hurried round the side of the house and issued through the gates on to the road .
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I argued with him in the road .
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On the way I noticed that the pavement swayed from side to side and the road heaved up and down.
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Set on the main road - 15 minutes walk from the resort centre, local buses stop nearby.
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So on their trip to the Coast empty they picked up everybody on the road .