Sentence examples for left derelict from inspiring English sources

That is, even in cities where land is scarce and expensive, substantial amounts of it are left derelict.

After being left derelict in the late 19th century, a new canal system called the Weihui ("Favour of the Wei") was opened in 1937.

Left derelict for 300 years, it is now partly restored, its crumbled battlements a stark picture of life in a medieval fortress.

Other sites were deliberately left derelict as memorials to the blitz, though even these have usually been touched by the busy hand of development.

The suburbs they moved into and the inner cities they left derelict and unwanted were breeding grounds for isolation and disaffection.By the late 1980s that generation was giving way to a new group of parents who waited longer to have children and paid more attention when they did.

A restoration project for a long-standing arts venue left derelict for more than a decade has been given a £420,000 grant by the government.

The Guardian found police reports that suggest the incident shown took place October 28 of last year and was a dispute over Arman leaving "derelict vehicles" on his property.

The scars left by derelict factories, empty warehouses and abandoned mines are spread wider and deeper in Britain, France and Germany.

David Conn won sports journalist of the year for stories including how Liverpool FC bought homes and left them derelict for years as part of its efforts to redevelop Anfield and how the rulers of Abu Dhabi invested heavily in Manchester City while clamping down on dissent at home.

Later it wound up in the Israeli Air Force, which left it derelict in a playground to tempt children to become pilots.

These two factories used to be based in the middle of Radford but now all that's left are derelict car parks.