Sentence examples for plant from inspiring English sources

Where hay rattle has stemmed the vigour of grasses, wildflowers are benefiting; one of many farming names for this plant was "poverty".

We are making the biggest investment in roads since the 1970s and the biggest in rail since Victorian times, connecting 40,000 premises to superfast broadband every week, and starting an energy revolution with the first new nuclear plant in a generation, the world's first green investment bank and the largest production of offshore wind on the planet.

Polymetal - lifted in recent days by talk of a possible merger with Polyus Gold - lost 22p to £10.88 as it warned there was a chance it could miss its production target of 1.2m troy ounces of gold in 2013 due to delays at a Russian plant.

National Grid has moved to reassure households and businesses it will have enough power supply even in a cold winter after a spate of fires and power plant closures helped to cut spare capacity to an eight-year low.

In July, SSE shut two units at its 1GW Ferrybridge coal plant in West Yorkshire following a fire.

In potentially the most significant announcement, Ed Davey, the energy secretary, said he expected to start talks next month with Tidal Lagoon Power, the company that is aiming to build the world's first tidal lagoon power plant in Swansea Bay, to see if the project is affordable and value for money for consumers.

Twenty boreholes have been sunk – by the UN Children's Fund, Unicef, with European Union funds – and a treatment plant built next to the lake.

One dollar a day buys Maria the seeds to plant beans and corn to make tortillas or buy rice imported from the US.

"If member states are free to purchase any power plant with long-term subsidies, then there is no longer a role for companies to judge investments".

Clegg has made Coppard's job easier, not just by reneging on his pledge not to increase tuition fees but by being in the highest echelons of a government that, shortly after its formation in 2010, cancelled a £80m loan to Sheffield Forgemasters, which the steel company had hoped to use to buy a new forging press for producing nuclear plant components, creating jobs.

The narrative spirals outwards and backwards to evoke, first, a world without seasons or colour, then the emergence of plant and animal life, then the time of human habitation, ending with a series of "prospects" of Britain which I think are among the best 20th-century nature writing.