Collocations withstreet
These are words often used in combination withstreet.
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busy street
The recent discoveries of medical science show that a thousand perils, unsuspected a generation ago, swarm in the atmosphere of a busy street.
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cobbled street
The vehicles will have to pass through a busy market town with markets on both sides of an old cobbled street, with a steep, sharp bend at one end.
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cobblestone street
They were renovated in 1975 but many period features survive, including the rare cobblestone street surfaces.
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crowded street
The speaker of the poem is static, almost absent from the scene of the "crowded street": in contrast the dead beloved moves in and with the crowd.
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dead-end street
They saw instead that racism was a dead-end street, and that oppressed races-including their own- would inevitably emerge from repression.
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mean streets
The houses are badly arranged in mean streets, and they are mean houses and nothing can be done in regard to reconditioning them.
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narrow street
Because a person is unfortunate enough to live in a house in a narrow street, the owner, if he keeps it in a sanitary condition, is not responsible.
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one-way street
We analyze the reasons why biorobotics has been essentially a one-way street.
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paved street
Structurally, the bridge is a 12-footlong (4 m) arch 7 feet (2.1 m) above the creek level, carrying the paved street.
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residential street
Driving down a residential street at 100 miles per hour will do as an example.
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side street
After an initial familiarisation exercise, the participants were invited to proceed towards the first destination, a quiet side street.
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street address
All the personal identifiers including the name and street address were deleted before the database was released to the investigators.
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street brawl
As for the remainder, whatever the offence—for example, the pub fight or the street brawl—the courts thought that they did not deserve long sentences.
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street cleaner
If no one sweeps the streets, they become filthy, so the street cleaner is a key worker.
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street cleaning
Such jobs may include street cleaning, gasoline pumping, vacuuming large carpets, washing aircraft, or inspecting pipelines from the inside.
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street corner
Your local diner may have occupied its street corner for decades, but one fine lunchtime you just might find that it has moved on.
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street fighter
He will make his own educated guess as a seasoned street fighter who is determined to win elections.
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street gang
One finds the same language in street gang battles before a punch-up.
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street hawker
She became associated with a street hawker, with whom she lived for some time.
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street lighting
For example, the area boasted well-maintained public gardens, an electrified trolley system, street lighting, and modern plumbing and sewer systems.
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street musician
She started out in classical guitar, but at about age 17 became a street musician and dropped out of high school.
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street peddler
However, most people bought coal by the bucket from a street peddler who came by daily in his horse-drawn carriage.
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street performer
The record invites repeated listening in a manner that contrasts most obviously to the experience of passing by a street performer.
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street photography
His specialty areas are reportage, portrait and what has come to be recognized as street photography.
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street protest
The consequences of crisis have pushed political efficacy to the forefront, in the street protests that contributed to the succession of leadership changes late last year.
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street racer
The premise is that, as a street racer, the player must impress other drivers with quick but stylish driving in a series of challenges.
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street railway
The request was successful despite strong opposition from the street railway owners, and the first vestibule law was passed that year.
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street sign
One can go round any suburb playing hunt the street sign.
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street thug
However, the city is full of street thugs who will attack the player.
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street trader
That must be born of his experience in his constituency, where there is obviously a particular type of street trader who is a public nuisance.
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suburban street
From its name, one would think that it is a pleasant, leafy suburban street.
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tree-lined street
By the end of this second song, he has left the lights of the city behind and wanders down a dark, tree-lined street.
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two-way street
But 'econometrics as observation' or 'econometrics as diagnostic tool' suggests a two-way street between theory and empirical evidence.
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winding streets
Within the old town there are many narrow winding streets full of historic buildings.
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