Example sentences of "work on the land " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no choice but to work on the land , and to live the life described by Flora Thompson in Lark Rise to Candleford . |
| 2 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 3 | This demonstrated the importance of family factors in determining the occupational choice of rural school-leavers — nearly 42 per cent of the respondents stated that they had been influenced by their family in their decision to work on the land . |
| 4 | A more likely cause of restlessness and dissatisfaction among farm workers occurs when friends , neighbours and kin among the ‘ locals ’ cease to work on the land but commute from the village to nearby towns . |
| 5 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 6 | The circle of friends and acquaintances with which the farm worker surrounded himself consisted predominantly of other farm workers , both at work — where , as we have seen , workers were far more gregarious than they are today — and in the village , where most of their neighbours would also work on the land . |
| 7 | Women do n't work on the land in this country . |
| 8 | put more infrastructure in so that then the farmers can send their children to school rather than work on the land . |
| 9 | He worked on the land until joining up in 1914 . |
| 10 | And there was pain as well as pride in working right to the end , as did the 99-year-old Suffolk widow who ‘ worked on the land all her life ’ or the Derbyshire midwife in her eighties who still ‘ would get up in the night and walk miles to attend a confinement . ’ |
| 11 | Large areas of the South and West remained untouched by the growth of the manufacturing industries , and in spite of the stimulating effect of the Napoleonic Wars upon certain sections of the economy , most of those who worked on the land steadily became poorer . |
| 12 | A famous example nearer to our own time is that of the Christian martyr Simone Weil , who joined the Renault workers on the assembly line so as to share their debasement , and worked on the land for the same reason , absurdly so in view of her frail physique . |
| 13 | If it is hard to generalize about the pattern of farming , it is no easier to summarize the resources or standing of the men who worked on the land . |
| 14 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |
| 15 | 85% of the population worked on the land . |
| 16 | In the Indian subcontinent , where large numbers of people work on the land , it is estimated that many thousands of people die from snake bites every year . |
| 17 | Most inhabitants work on the land or in related industries . |
| 18 | Work on the land |
| 19 | Working-class children are expected to be independent , travel on the packed buses , take responsibility for siblings , do washing , help sell or ‘ higgle ’ in the market and work on the land . |
| 20 | This study sets out to examine , albeit in a preliminary way , just how the rapid changes in the Scottish agricultural industry in the post-war years have affected those who work on the land . |
| 21 | But erm certainly with this style of hat was commonly worn I suppose to his and by the people who work on the land , certainly in this part of the world . |
| 22 | There has been no change in the total number of farmers and those in their families — 47,800 who work on the land . |
| 23 | Although the number of people working on the land falls every year , the latest five-year figures show farm fatalities are not decreasing . |
| 24 | Very often special clothes were needed for work - gumboots and waterproofs for those working on the land , aprons and overalls for those in catering . |
| 25 | In order to stop working on the land , four members of the family paid 6,000 yuan each to the production ‘ team ’ — the basic organisation of production under communism — to escape their obligations . |
| 26 | The idiocy of Urbanism and of urban life have replaced the inspiration of Ruralism , of living and working on the land . |
| 27 | Not all farm workers have been affected equally by the new technology and certain aspects of working on the land have remained almost untouched by it . |
| 28 | From this simple , yet significant , starting-point many of the distinctive features of working on the land follow . |
| 29 | Variety is endemic to working on the land , variety introduced by changes in the weather , the seasons , soil conditions and , as we have seen , by the increasing versatility demanded of the farm workers themselves . |
| 30 | Compared with most other manual jobs , working on the land offers far more in the way of intrinsic interest , variety , autonomy , challenge , responsibility and control . |