Example sentences of "[art] land around " in BNC.

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1 The farmers who own the land around Pot Scar are getting increasingly agitated over the way climbers using the crag are parking their cars .
2 So he bought the land around the factory , and the village now covers one thousand acres .
3 The setting is the land around Wexford , which Ronan evokes with the pleasingly unpoetic frankness of a native .
4 It is not known who owned the land around Cosmeston before the Normans came to Wales .
5 Some , ‘ … wiser than the rest , lay their heads together and resolved in council to be before-hand ’ and went with picks and shovels and opened the land around the monument to a depth of six feet .
6 The pits have become lakes and the land around them is damp or waterlogged .
7 H. For centuries , groups of farmers have lived together in villages and worked the land around each village to a distance of about 1.5–2.0 km .
8 The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays .
9 The land around the cloud towers was NASA 's special country .
10 The land around them did n't seem a lot different to the place they 'd left , except that the vegetation was lower and Masklin could n't see any water .
11 The land around the lake is dry , stony desert , and you can take a four-wheel-drive vehicle almost anywhere , at least until you run out of fuel .
12 Broadly speaking , the land around the Tyne Tunnel approach road to the west of North Shields including Chirton Industrial Estate , the Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate and surrounding agricultural land , was designated either as first call industrial land or as part of a strategic reserve , although this latter status was modified by the Secretary of State in his revisions .
13 Too many new ones , based on fresh industrial fortunes , had no connection with the land around them ; too many old ones , succumbing to the profit motive , had abandoned responsibility and thus forfeited respect .
14 Paul was having a tough time himself supervising the contouring of the land around the three-tier pool Stephen had eventually commissioned .
15 The Castle of Zenda and all the land around it belonged to the Duke , but the old lady said , ‘ It 's not enough .
16 He sold his old house and the land around it for £200,000 , having bought it for £50,000 some 10 years earlier .
17 Then some of her pupils walked the Pennine Way , which runs through the land around Low Birk Hatt , and she sent a message and a box of chocolates with them .
18 But both have their roots in the land and within a reasonably short space of time Low Birk Hatt is due to emerge , its amenities vastly improved , as a family home with cattle grazing the land around it
19 In fact the land around this former beauty spot had become little more than a rubbish tip .
20 A large new foodmarket was being built on the opposite corner , with the land around it open for parking .
21 Several problems immediately present themselves when we look at the land around any settlement .
22 Secondly , I 'd make the land around the barn blend and unify with the surrounding area ; it would merge with and reinforce the horizon beyond — harmonise rather than stick out like a sore thumb . ’
23 — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women .
24 There is great potential in the land around the port in Belfast and it is important that , when that land is sold , it is sold to a company capable of developing it to the best advantage of the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland .
25 How well do you know the land around Dundalk ? ’
26 For instance , did you know that the guy who bought up all the land around your place has gone bust ? ’
27 This cottage gradually grew into a station , and this station brought prosperity to the land around it .
28 Officials of the Greenock Waterfront Heritage Association claim that the land around the dock has parliamentary protection .
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