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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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