Example sentences of "who [verb] [prep] the land " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic and religious factors are therefore held to play important and complementary parts in the explanation of peasant unrest : for those who lived off the land , conditions were grim and unyielding , and Calvinism offered a way of life which might , among other things , free them from the burden of the tithe . |
| 2 | Remains of these first Italians , people who arrived over the land bridge from Africa ( as did the exotic animals ) have been found not only in the south , but also on the Lombardy Plain , near Verona . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Those who know the Duke recognise his passionate interest in the countryside and the wellbeing of those who live by the land . |
| 6 | Those who know the Duke recognise his passionate interest in the countryside and the wellbeing of those who live by the land . |
| 7 | Indeed I have my breakfast at dinner-time , somewhere around 11.30 a.m. that 's the time for the main meal of the day in farming circles since it is normal for those who live from the land to rise at first light . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There has been no change in the total number of farmers and those in their families — 47,800 who work on the land . |