Sentence examples for brown field from inspiring English sources

On April 1, Brown stood on a brown field that would have normally been covered in snow and ordered cities and towns across California to cut water use 25% as part of a sweeping set of mandatory drought restrictions.

The feral woodlands, the brown field sites and the wanton atmosphere demarcate a familiar zone.

But I just don't want to live in a big brown field.

A blond-haired young man in dungarees walks purposefully across a brown field.

"It's been a brown field with abandoned buildings, and we certainly don't want factories.

Surveying the dusty brown field behind her house, she said: "Without water, there is no life".

Tax-relief on VAT on brown-field developments is also a possibility.

Pennbury fails on both counts: it sits just to the east of Leicester and has hardly any brown-field land.

But "taking it on the chin" didn't seem to apply to the large-scale property developers making sizeable fortunes as brown-field sites turned into gold mines.

If they get the go-ahead to build on this land, it may act as a precedent for the development of other rural brown-field sites, such as disused quarries, military bases and industrial estates.

Promote development in brown-field sites.