Sentence examples for a kerb on from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a kerb on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a restriction or limitation placed on something, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "The government has introduced a kerb on excessive spending to manage the national budget."
Alternatives: "a limit on" or "a restriction on".

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It can happen falling off a kerb on the side of the street.

The actual cause of the accident was a failure of the nose wing structure, probably weakened by Ratzenberger clouting a kerb on a previous lap.

In the first qualifying session he then broke his suspension on a kerb on the entry to the Swimming Pool complex, and finished in the barrier in Q1.

A police officer is suing a petrol station owner after apparently tripping on a kerb on his property when called to reports of a suspected break-in.

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"It may not work in the High Street because of the high kerb on one side," he said.

She sat on a kerb.

But these are artless thieves, sprawling on a kerb outside a looted home, for instance, surrounded by stolen goods and waiting like exhausted shoppers for a lift.

As he recounted in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, the two prospective lovebirds sat eating their cones on a kerb in the Windy City's Hyde Park district.

But if this challenge dries out on the vine of digital content and is succeeded by the "tripping on a kerb while drunk" mime test, I'll be ready.

In Columbia Heights, when the election was settled, a young woman biking up the hill stopped, threw her bike into the middle of the road, sat on a kerb and began weeping.

For 10 minutes, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta sheltered on a kerb behind his chauffeur-driven car as police and gangsters traded shots that crackled through the lofty, leafy neighbourhood of Santa Teresa.

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