Example sentences of "of land [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , the Soviet authorities finally admitted that 15,000 square kilometres of land had been contaminated and more than 10,000 people evacuated . |
| 2 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 3 | By 1982 , some 180 000 ha of land had been cleared , with a further 1 million ha likely to be cleared by the completion of Repelita IV in 1988 , involving c. 300 000 ha per year in mostly primary forest areas that are cleared by burning after initial felling . |
| 4 | When we were flying over Holland I did steel myself to look out and I remember seeing where miles of land had been submerged under sea water to keep the Germans out , and houses , trees and roads were still under water . |
| 5 | Unless there had been a general exodus of small proprietors , a good deal of land had been acquired by outsiders , possibly with a view to letting it to graziers . |
| 6 | But if the blo if that block of land had been sold off , and somebody came along and wanted to put up farm buildings and a house , then we would support it , probably , because there 's an area of land there that 's viable . |
| 7 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon yesterday revealed 134 acres of land had been restored thanks to £4.3m in Derelict Land Grant . |
| 8 | So far about 400 hectares of land have been reclaimed and the programme is to continue for as long as is necessary . |
| 9 | A ten-fold increase in fish farming is expected in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire , over the next couple of years and , already , sizeable plots of land have been given over to the business . |
| 10 | Later , at a meeting held at Calais in October , the two clauses were removed to form a separate treaty whose implementation was to depend upon the clauses concerning the cession of land having been properly carried out . |
| 11 | Two main factors stand in the way of adventurous design , MacCormac believes : ‘ In the inner cities , the cost of land has been so high that individual homes have not been economic ; in the country , local planning committees are one of the big barriers . |
| 12 | Over the years about two acres of land has been washed away , and even though Gerry Glover , a former president and club historian , feared this could happen , he did n't expect it just yet . |
| 13 | If the summons for recovery of land has been served under Ord 10 , r 15 and a money claim is joined , the court must , unless it thinks it just to do otherwise , mark the summons " not served " as to the money claim ( Ord 10 , r 15(5) ) . |
| 14 | In some places the movement has progressed to the point where the principle of equal redistribution , equal distribution of land has been put into effect with everybody , even the landlords , getting of land . |
| 15 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 16 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |