However they were handicapped by the need for proper roads.

It will be much easier for you to ride that bike when you're on a proper road, Guy.

We'll make a reasonable track, if not a proper road.

Not a track, but a proper road with black stone on it.

There was no proper road outside our house for months, up as far as the summer holidays.

Till the 19th century there were no proper roads in this area.

Now there are proper roads leading to all the small villages nearby.

That at least was a good sign: she had not let the ship fall too far out of its proper road.

The horse turned from the road proper, and descended full speed into the stream itself.

The town never received proper roads, health services, water, street lamps or electricity.