Example sentences of "[prep] the farmer ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 2 | Yes , for the farmers ' daughters and |
| 3 | A spokesman for the Farmers ' Union of Wales , which has set up a farm and rural consultancy service , considered reports of widespread farm fraud ‘ greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 4 | We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals . |
| 5 | Also on Oct. 21 Mitterrand called on Raymond Lacombe , the chairman of the farmers ' union FNSEA ( Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles ) , to control his supporters , describing the attacks by " gangs " who were not representative of the main body of farmers as " unacceptable " and ordering the police to intervene to restore law and order . |
| 6 | FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales . |
| 7 | NEW vice-presidents of the Farmers ' Union of Wales from North and Mid Wales were both on parade at Hill Sheep ‘ 93 . |
| 8 | Mrs Edwards , a widow , lived alone in the neat terraced house opposite the Farmers ' Arms where she was born . |
| 9 | Again , that money goes directly into the farmers ' pockets . |
| 10 | Their favourite eel grass supply is used up and they must turn to other sources of food — including the farmers ' cereal crops on fields inland . |
| 11 | The length of the period of cultivation in this bush/fallow cycle depended on the quality of the soils , the requirement of the crops for nutrients , and on whether fertility was supplemented by cattle manure from the farmers ' own livestock . |
| 12 | From the farmers ' viewpoint , set aside will have many implications . |
| 13 | Farming systems research which studies the complex of decision-making by farmers as a whole system implies that the researcher spends time with the farmers rather than in the research station and adapts research needs on the spot — in the farmers ' fields — to ongoing work by the farmers . |
| 14 | Suh Kyung-won was an activist in the farmers ' movement and became president of the Catholic Farmers Association in 1982 . |
| 15 | The solution lies firmly in the farmers ' own hands |
| 16 | He earned his living as a mediatore , a middle-man in the farmers ' buying and selling of livestock . |
| 17 | Suppose farmers have a right in law to enjoin the railway company not to set fire to their fields : the result is that the company will fit spark-suppressing equipment to their trains , and there will be less damage to the farmers ' fields . |
| 18 | He is a polo umpire , a judge of horseflesh , adviser to the Farmers ' Union , a stalwart of regimental dinners and a confidant of opposition politicians . |
| 19 | Harrison knew many of the wrestlers and the rest of the morning passed pleasantly enough as he moved around the quacks and the pedlars , tinkers and gypsies and show people who were an enjoyable contrast to the farmers ' wives selling their freshly imprinted butter , with their buckets of eggs , the vegetables and poultry , rabbits , game pies , potted char , rum butter . |
| 20 | if necessary , negotiating on the farmers ' proposals . |
| 21 | We stopped at the farmers ' market for cheese and grapes . |
| 22 | The revival of small-scale farmhouses cheeses and the subsequent interest in these individual products has been brought about partly by the farmers ' need to cut the amount of milk that they send to the Milk Marketing Board and partly by the public 's demand for ‘ real ’ cheeses with traditional texture and flavour . |
| 23 | In view of the history of rural housing it was therefore somewhat ironic to find in 1976 that changes to the tied cottage legislation were opposed by the farmers ' lobby on the grounds that there were insufficient safeguards against local authorities refusing to meet their housing responsibilities ! |
| 24 | But of course these stocks are dependent on the amount of wheat sown in the preceding year ; and that , in its turn was largely influenced by the farmers ' guesses as to the price which they would get for it in this year . |