Example sentences of "land around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So he bought the land around the factory , and the village now covers one thousand acres . |
| 3 | Land around the equator is wet and hot . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Chris Hall of the RA said this will be the first in a series of ‘ mini-trespass guides ’ to closed land around the country . |
| 6 | The bus wound its way through the ring of nineteenth-century villas on the upper slopes and the post-war apartments below them , down to the modern blocks and towers on the flat land around the station , where it pulled up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Last September , in an effort to reconcile the genuine nature conservation aspirations of various wildlife groups with the Port 's need for expansion , the Harbour Commissioners reached agreement with the major nature conservation bodies in the Province to preserve one of the Kinnegar lagoons as a bird sanctuary along with approximately 70 acres of land around the North end of Belfast City Airport 's runway for development as a nature park . |
| 9 | Life down on the farm is kiddie-sized in Niedersachen , German , where Thorsten , Manuela and Kornnelia Pape have been treated to a mini tractor by their father Klaus , who farms land around the village . |
| 10 | This was inefficient , it seems , according to modern animal scientists , but they were corralled at night and brought fertiliser home to the cultivated land around the farmstead . |
| 11 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was plenty of land around the site which would allow easy expansion when that became necessary ; , |
| 14 | From this viewpoint we can see that , although the centre of Funchal is very built-up , there is still a lot of green land around the city . |
| 15 | The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , has rejected planning proposals for the use of green-belt land around the city of Chester for housing and industrial development . |
| 16 | Officials of the Greenock Waterfront Heritage Association claim that the land around the dock has parliamentary protection . |
| 17 | The state government , dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , had on Oct. 11 acquired 1.12 hectares of land around the shrine , saying that it wished to provide services for tourists and pilgrims . |
| 18 | The latest march came amidst renewed signs of Hindu-Moslem hostility centring on the disputed mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , where the BJP state government formally took possession of 1.12 hectares of land around the shrine on Nov. 3 [ see p. 38532 ] . |
| 19 | If there is one drawback to life at Belle Vue Cottage , it is the lack of land around the place . |
| 20 | The land around the cloud towers was NASA 's special country . |