Example sentences of "of land for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been discussed by Douglas ( 1983 ) and includes government allocation of lands for agricultural development as well as controls on wood harvest volumes . |
| 2 | I think the real English gardens are not the manicured lawns of the home counties ( usually nurtured by someone ‘ who comes to do the garden ’ ) but precisely these little pocket handkerchief gardens and allotments ; places of little rugs and doormats and tiny bits of land for which rain is prayed , cultivated with beans and tomatoes and cabbages and roses , a respite from the rest of life , where people are autonomous , in control of something they are making . |
| 3 | And the depth of his ideological commitment to maintaining Israel 's hold over the West Bank rules out any acceptance of the principle that negotiations should eventually lead to an exchange of land for peace . |
| 4 | Twenty pounds of butter was enough for the lease of two and a half desiatiny of land for five years.l Five pudy of linseed cake were exchanged for the approaching harvest of a desiatin of wheat . |
| 5 | By Paul Brown Environment Correspondent CHANGES in government policy are about to release large areas of land for commercial forestry and halt the feud between the timber trade and environmental groups over the conservation of upland areas . |
| 6 | Until 1985 the bulk of its allocations to projects went on purchases of land for reserves . |
| 7 | A wrongful possession of land for twelve years , or of goods for six years , destroys not only the former owner 's right to recover the land or goods by action , but also his title ; and so the possessor has the best of titles known to the law — a possession which no one can dispute . |
| 8 | The Forest rights of the Crown should be sold to the landowners who owned the soil , or exchanged for an apportionment of land for enclosure and economic development . |
| 9 | A big push for land is under way along the River Drina on the Bosnian border as Serbian warlords , backed by local federal army commanders , try to establish safe corridors between their strongholds and grab areas of land for the self-styled Serbian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 10 | If the government would only give me a small piece of land for my people in the Wallowa Valley , with a teacher , that is all I would ask . |
| 11 | The work involved the evaluation of land for the rival purposes of agriculture , housing , air-fields , hydro-electric schemes , etc. , and often resulted in acrimonious tussles between Agriculture and the Home and Health Departments . |
| 12 | In Mexico in the early 1980s these networks had joined to form the National Council of Popular Urban Movements , with their main demand being that every poor family had a right to a piece of land for a dwelling ( Cockroft 1983 ) . |
| 13 | There was also a promising coastal site at Druridge Bay in Northumberland , where the CEGB had bought 300 acres of land for £700,000 in 1985 . |
| 14 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 15 | The enforced high population densities endured by Africans due to the expropriation of land for white commercial farmers , threatened to make existing agricultural and pastoral practices very harmful to the long-term productivity of land . |
| 16 | Which features or activities may reduce the value of land for tourists ? |
| 17 | For each permanent activity shown on the map , how may it conflict with the use of land for any other purpose ? |
| 18 | How may the use of land for reservoirs sometimes help and sometimes hinder the needs of townsfolk ? |
| 19 | Emphasises the role of the planning system in ensuring an adequate and continuing supply of land for new housing to meet the increasing demand for home ownership on which no limit has been set . |
| 20 | By 1987 it had , for example , reclaimed more than 240 acres of land for commercial or housing development . |
| 21 | It had released more than 700 acres of land for development , which amounted to about 30 per cent of the total of derelict land within its designated boundaries ( National Audit Office , 1988b ) . |
| 22 | Lawton LJ in Brooks and Burton Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment and another , concerning the intensification of use of land for the manufacture of concrete blocks , said : |
| 23 | We supervised the clearing of land for a nursery and for the permanent planting of the wild cocoa after it had been collected . |
| 24 | FOR DECADES , professional and amateur politicians , encouraged by a vociferous band of scientists and engineers , have relentlessly pursued the reclamation of land for which the distant eye sees no use . |
| 25 | As I have mentioned above , the amount of immigration into the area has necessitated the passing over of land for new housing . |
| 26 | The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war . |
| 27 | The separation of these villages is fast disappearing with the development of land for houses and industry . |
| 28 | At a British Factory meeting in 1808 it was agreed to ask the British Consul-General to arrange a suitable piece of land for building a British Protestant church . |
| 29 | In the twentieth century population growth and increased use of land for cash crops led to a relative decline in the importance of subsistence agriculture . |
| 30 | The shortage of land for development has caused the price of land to rise . |