Sentence examples for to grub up from inspiring English sources

To grub up coppice woodland and replace it with a plantation of spruce larches is to destroy it as effectively as covering it with concrete.

Or is he just so desperate for publicity for his ailing party that he'd do anything to grub up a few headlines, bar perhaps roller-skate past Westminster naked?

Under her plans, the budget would be steered towards promoting European wines in new markets overseas, and fostering a wider range of businesses in winemaking regions (lots of museums and tourist wine routes).The commission also wants to grub up 200,000 hectares of vines (about 6% of the EU total) and to pay farmers who cannot sell their wine to leave the industry.

But with the European Union proposing to pay 7,000 euros per hectare in the first year of its program to grub up vines, he would at least be able to recoup some of the cash he spent on the farm.

"We pay the farmers to grub up the trees and hedges; we pay them to plant the hills with pretty grass and sheep to maintain the chocolate box image, and then wonder why we've got floods," he said.

Means to turn over soil are as old as agriculture – the first farmers in the Middle East used tree branches or roots to grub up fields – but when farming spread to the heavier ground of northern Europe, a more sturdy solution was required.

But there is "huge opposition" to grubbing up.

On one occasion, I did grub up enough change to get drunk on discount beer and still pay for lodgings at a youth hostel, but its atmosphere felt very much like a jail's — homoerotic and quivering with suppressed violence.

But you can grub up as many as you like as long as it's "an incidental result of a lawful operation".

It is no coincidence that the decline in their numbers should have begun in the 1950s, when hedgerows began to be grubbed up, fields soused in pesticides, and agriculture expanded on an industrial scale.

They are currently being tried out in vineyards in the south of France, to check that "grubbing up" of vines is done legally and ecologically.