Sentence examples for being sold for development from inspiring English sources

John van Heusen Halsey, whose family settled in Southampton in the 1640's, founded the trust 20 years ago when he saw farms being sold for development.

Farmers' land near cities is being sold for development into high-rise flats.

Soon after that, the Lowfield Heath windmill came under threat because the land it stood on was being sold for development.

Reserving land for small developers and self-builders when public land is sold for development.

For reasons unknown, the blockfront was sold for development in two segments in 1896.

It is easy to have burned forest land reclassified as former farmland, which can then be sold for development.

Two years ago, a group of citizens helped save a 183-acre parcel of land that was about to be sold for development, Ms. Mount said.

Over the years, most of the land was sold for development, and now the restaurant sits on a four-acre hilltop overlooking cul-de-sacs of modest homes.

Bars across Britain will not be sold for development without the permission of local drinkers, the minister responsible for pubs will announce today.

The plan is that over the next five years the old prisons will be sold for development and nine new prisons will be built at a cost of around £1bn.

But more aggressive species came and drove them out of their nests and killed their young, farms were sold for development and farmers who stayed started using metal fence posts.