Sentence examples for raised land from inspiring English sources

The subsidies have raised land costs, driving out small farmers and undermining the family farm by encouraging consolidation.

The BALTIC in Gateshead, where Snoddy also used to work, is also cited as an example of a gallery that has secured inward investment and raised land values.

The earth has been heavily churned by horses and out on the raised land ahead we're observed closely by one in a winter jacket.

During the rains (June to October) the greater part of the region is flooded to a depth of 3 or more feet (at least 1 metre), leaving the villages and homesteads, which are built on artificially raised land, isolated above the floodwaters.

If the 19th-century warehouses of Norton Folgate are redeveloped and only their facades remain, affixed like postage stamps on the front of new buildings, the raised land value will ensure that the rental costs exclude all but large corporate tenants.

The human occupation of the southern Florida peninsula has, at least since the formation of the Everglades, focused on the raised land surfaces and ecological diversity provided by tree islands.

Even here, with homesteads and roads on slightly raised lands, mud-brick houses have dissolved and all that remains are pitiful piles of debris where they once stood.

For example, protected kraals were generally located on raised lands with sandy loam soils while waterholes were situated on low-lying areas dominated by black cotton clay soils.

image: One of the first Monarch butterflies we "raised" lands on my son's head as if to say goodbye before it flutters off into the wild.

This has raised concerns that the development will raise land values.

Absentee landowners bought up land claimed and vacated by the Voortrekkers and extracted rent from African producers, hoping increased white immigration would raise land prices.