downing street in English

noun
1
a street in Westminster, London, between Whitehall and St. James's Park. No. 10 is the official residence of the prime minister; No. 11 is the official home of the chancellor of the exchequer.

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1. 17 The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street.

2. 27 Downing Street has so far refused to comment on these reports.

3. Unusually for Downing Street, there were no actual rats scuttling by.

4. Downing Street announced that the Prime Minister intended to fulfil his longstanding pledge.

5. 'Downing Street' is used as a metonym for the Government of the United Kingdom.

6. 13 The letter provided further evidence of the widening schism between the church and Downing Street.

7. 19 Roll the die, answer a question and move up the greasy pole to Downing Street.

8. What a contrast with the rattled and untrustworthy gamblers at Number 10 and Number 11 Downing Street.

9. But the more Downing Street protests, the greater the suspicion that Major is jittery about US-UK relations.

10. As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.

11. He was charged with abducting a taxi driver and forcing him to drive a bomb to Downing Street.

12. In September 2012, Freya shared the role of Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office with the Downing Street cat Larry.

13. Larry is a rescued stray cat from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home who was chosen by Downing Street staff.

14. The UK project is led by policy wonk David Halpern, a key part of Cameron's Downing Street brain trust and head of the Behavioural Insight Team.

15. Families Bereaved by Covid-19 have warned Downing Street they will start legal action against the government after Easter unless Boris Johnson urgently launches a statutory public inquiry into …

16. Campbell, a teetotaller, also discloses in today's extracts that the pressure of working in Downing Street became so great that he started drinking again around the turn of the millennium.

17. 1 day ago · Instead (in keeping with the Boosterish levelling up now all the rage in Downing Street), it energetically seeks something to blame that can be remedied

18. What is the Backstop? Downing Street is planning to prevent a hard border at the UK's only land frontier with a European Union state after Brexit if no preferred trade agreement is reached on

19. The £2.6m bill for refitting a room in 9 Downing Street to host the Briefings has already come under scrutiny, with the substantial cost partly attributed to fixing the terrible acoustics in a

20. Greenpeace climate campaigners and Sipson village resident Linda McCutcheon presented Airplot's legal Deed of Trust at 10 Downing Street this morning, to say thank you to the new Cameron/Clegg government following its move to officially scrap Heathrow

21. Terpreted as a good Augurv; That the prayers of both peoples for the success of the conference were fer vent shown by the kneeling* [fish men and women in Downing street reciting* the rosary and sing ing* hyms, while the Archbishop of Canterbury, presiding at a meeting In the national assembly of the English Church, reminded the as