land - use in sentences

Object

  • aristocracy: It was ruled by a bloc of two classes: the landed aristocracy and the industrial bourgeoisie.

Converse of object

  • cultivate: My job was mainly plowing and cultivating the good land preparing for the grain harvest.
  • acquire: From 1 April, 1998, unregistered land acquired by gift or by will has had to be registered.
  • occupy: This can be achieved by the use of detention tanks within the site but these can again be costly and may occupy valuable land.

Adjective modifier

  • contaminated: It removed contaminated land from the former gas works site.
  • arable: The majority occur in arable land with some in coastal grazing marsh.
  • agricultural: Even more valuable agricultural land is at risk of being lost to quarrying here.
  • promised: Keegan's signings aren't the international stars to guide us into the promised land.
  • derelict: The new scheme to transform derelict land on the banks of the River Clyde has outline planning permission from Glasgow City Council.
  • fertile: The fertile lands of Cromar are in the center of Mar, on the left bank of the River Dee.

Modifies a noun

  • reform: In the context of land reform in South Africa, their success is bucking a trend.
  • ownership: Virtually every change in land ownership around the town involved them in some way or other.

Noun used with modifier

  • brownfield: Housing development - Within the Local Plan 60 % of allocated housing sites is on brownfield land.
  • grazing: However, the majority of mares in the contact group were grazing land where grass sickness had not occurred for many years.
  • pasture: Details: Freehold pasture land for sale in Crowhurst, Surrey.
  • demesne: The Act provides a procedure for the voluntary registration of demesne land.
  • greenbelt: We don't need to build on greenbelt land.

Possessives

  • no-man: The first were directed by police to climb up a slope out of the no-man's land to the border control point.

Preposition: of

  • Pharaoh: Visit the Cairo Museum to marvel at the legendary treasures of Tutankhamen, ancient artifacts and other masterpieces from the Land of the Pharaohs.

Preposition: with

  • thud: She slips off the seat backward and lands with a thud on the ground.

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