Example sentences of "work the land " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know that I have to work the land down there . |
| 2 | Whereas all the other farmsteads had either lusty young sons to work the land and tend the animals to improve their living standards , or were able to afford to hire in permanent labour , the Hauxwells were supporting four elderly relatives at one stage , had no sons ( Hannah was an only child ) and were finally dealt a cruel blow when Hannah 's father became mortally ill . |
| 3 | The young people , in particular , as they become better educated are reluctant to work the land — which is very hard work for a low income . |
| 4 | They would need children to work the land when they became old . |
| 5 | If nobody wants to work the land — well go round by the villa . |
| 6 | Labour was no longer as efficient as machinery and new systems of agricultural organisation and , as a result , the peasantry ( who had owned or had common rights to work the land in their villages ) were gradually forced off the land to become wage labourers . |
| 7 | Their lands were now being occupied by poorer people , their former servants , who had not the means , nor , to judge from McQueen 's words , the energies or capacities to work the land properly ; by such measures were they witnessing the reduction of the great Scottish holdings . |
| 8 | They even sent us some French and Belgians , people like that , to work the land . |
| 9 | There would be an extra pair of hands to tend the sheep , to trade , to work the land , or go to school then work in the city and send money home . |
| 10 | We were born to work the land , this land where we were born and raised our children ’ |
| 11 | In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity , but not to upset the ecological balance . |
| 12 | However , much will depend upon the circumstances so that profits à prendre can not be considered as a contract for the sale of goods being simply a privilege to work the land in question . |
| 13 | If they do n't , then he says the countryside will be stripped of it 's most important resource — people to work the land . |
| 14 | ‘ Many years ago the people worked the land . ’ |
| 15 | H. For centuries , groups of farmers have lived together in villages and worked the land around each village to a distance of about 1.5–2.0 km . |
| 16 | Those that worked the land grew rye and potatoes , beetroot , blueberries , apples and cherries ; they fattened pigs and kept large flocks of geese who were indifferent to the Pomeranian damp . |
| 17 | They pressed IBM on these issues and the company took over and worked the land of fifteen surrounding farms . |
| 18 | ( FAO 1960 : 1 ) , leading to such a condition which should not happen if all people who use and work the land could have the advantage of scientific knowledge relating to soil and water conservation . |
| 19 | A more likely suggestion would be that it is evidence of the estate workers continuing to live on the site and work the land long after the owners , managers or bailiffs had departed . |
| 20 | They are the feudal nobility who own the land , and the landless serfs who work the land . |
| 21 | In many parts of the country , villages are dormitory and retirement centres ; the farms that now work the land are for the most part out in their fields away from the villages . |
| 22 | If such advances are to be made and put into practice by the people working the land , then higher soil losses can be ‘ tolerated ’ . |
| 23 | Today we are in the vulnerable position of producing barely half our own food , with only 2½ per cent of our people directly concerned with working the land , and that percentage is still falling . |
| 24 | Kalchu was busy all the time , working the land from dawn to dusk . |
| 25 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 26 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
| 27 | WORKING THE LAND |
| 28 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 29 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |
| 30 | Well er grown in just in rotation you know working the land every five or six year rotation er and er you had not very much hay . |