Example sentences of "of land by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Club tried , unsuccessfully , to buy 12 acres of land by the present 12th at £40 an acre , and sold several acres two years later at £50 an acre . |
| 2 | The sky becomes stained with clouds and I come to a stretch of land by the sea — I do n't know what else to call it . |
| 3 | More significantly , it counterpoised the acquisition of land by the church — ‘ whereby the services which are due from such fees [ i.e. freehold ] and which were provided from the beginning for the defence of the realm are unjustifiably withdrawn and chief lords in respect of them lose their escheats ’ — with the good of the realm , for which the present ban is imposed . |
| 4 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 5 | The refounding of monasteries and the continual granting away of land by the crown resulted in fragmentation of the earlier large units and recombination of land under new ownership . |
| 6 | The original rebel demand for compensation for the despoliation of land by the mining operation had escalated to include the permanent closure of the mine and independence for Bougainville , an area ethnically distinct from the Papuan mainland . |
| 7 | Here , the Nicholas family held some 500–600 acres of land by the later years of the sixteenth century and ranked with the Gittinses as the largest landowners in the parish . |