Example sentences of "[prep] good [noun sg] land " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out there were a few acres of good hunting land just to the south of the barn . |
| 2 | It had been a Church of Ireland rectory once , where some forgotten incumbent , a keen hunting man , had built a delightful little yard , adjoining the house and with every horsebox looking into the sun ; with a hundred acres of good limestone land , the place was just the thing for Andrew and his horse-dealing . |
| 3 | Kaszubian farmers felt that they could never raise enough money to compete with both the Poles and the Prussian Colonisation Commission for good quality land , and thus stood no real chance of ever turning their smallholdings into profitable concerns . |
| 4 | The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns . |
| 5 | HLCAs would be paid on all livestock up to 250 LUs per farm and the rate would be adjusted on a handicap factor from 50% of the HLCA base rate on better inbye land , to 80% on poorer inbye and up to 150% on poorer rough grazings . |
| 6 | About sixty miles from Johannesburg and the same distance from the provincial capital , Pretoria , Rustenburg 's prosperity was based on mining , especially for platinum , but it is surrounded by good farming land in a warm , beautiful valley . |