Sentence examples for waste ground for from inspiring English sources

When we started nine years ago, we recognized it was not just a question of hosting the Olympic Games; we also saw it as a massive opportunity to transform a large part of East London, an area that has been an industrial waste ground for centuries.

The Metropolitan Cattle Market opened in 1855, leaving West Smithfield as waste ground for about ten years during the construction of the new market.

Half-felled by the local council, houses are then left slowly crumbling and become croft waste ground for children to find new excitements with no lights for miles.

"This used to be very luxurious," said Mohammad Elyas, a heavy man with a big smile who was more intent on parking cars on the waste ground outside for 20 Afghanis each (about 40 cents) than contemplating the cultural center.

On the walk to my hotel, I pass an area of pitted waste ground reserved for the last phase in Rieselfeld's development, awaiting the excavators and cranes that accompany any such work in progress.

More appeals, photofits and false leads, such as the one which led to waste ground being futilely dug for Amanda's body only last July.

That "natsch", a spindly thistle, is used by Israeli lawyers to mean waste ground – "more easily requisitioned when necessary for Israeli purposes," Macfarlane notes.

Idiots stealing wheeled bins from outside homes and businesses, taking them to waste ground or parks, and torching them for whatever kicks they can derive.

Their first home was a piece of waste ground called Glengall Road, where they only stayed for one year.

Toxic wastes were said to be dumped in quarries and on waste ground and radioactive wastes in ordinary waste dumps.

Litter piles up on waste ground behind a perimeter fence.