Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of land [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came an offer of land in the swampy jungle area 40 miles to the east of Calcutta , known as the Sandurbans . |
| 2 | It appears that the rights of an owner of land in the airspace above his land extend only to such height as is necessary for the ordinary use and enjoyment of the land and any structure upon it ( Bernstein of Leigh ( Baron ) v Skyviews & General Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 479 ) . |
| 3 | An attempt has been made by Nightingale to show that Rochester was the centre from which an area of land to the north had been centuriated on the regular basis of 20 by 20 actus squares . |
| 4 | By the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , an area of land on the southern side of Burlington Lane , not far from the Southern Railway Station , was made available to the Chiswick Parochial Charities , and a number of Memorial Homes were erected for housing ex-service men and their families . |
| 5 | The government in July 1992 proclaimed an area of land as the permanent possession of the Awa , but the land has still not been physically demarcated . |
| 6 | India claimed an area north of Kashmir , seized by the Chinese in 1962 , while the Chinese claimed an area of land in the state of Arunachal Pradesh [ see p. 34947 ] . |
| 7 | The Wallace Clan Trust for Scotland hopes to raise £1 million to purchase an area of land in the West of Scotland , to be used as a new clan seat . |
| 8 | that 's what he 's on about doing , his buying an acre of land on the field |
| 9 | Throughout New South Wales he had a total of over 5,000 valuable acres in lots of various sizes and in Sydney , in addition to his estate , he had an acre of land in the heart of the city . |
| 10 | The oak-beamed four-bedroom house stands surrounded by apple trees in almost an acre of land in the village of Snetterton , just a mile from a racing circuit . |