I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distant land literary (= a country that is a long way away )
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He fled to a distant land.
a far-off land/country/place etc
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visitors from a far-off land
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far-off galaxies
a land of opportunity (= a country where people have a lot of good opportunities )
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America was then seen as a land of opportunity.
a plane lands (= moves safely down onto the ground )
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Because of the fog, our plane had to land at Luton.
by air/sea/land/road/rail etc
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All supplies are transported by air.
catch/land a fish
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Pete caught a really big fish.
common land
crash landing
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He was forced to make a crash-landing in the desert.
desert country/land
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Large parts of Oman are desert country.
dry land (= not the sea )
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It was good to get off the ship onto dry land again.
dry land
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After three weeks at sea we were glad to be back on dry land again.
forbidding place/land/landscape etc
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We sailed past the island’s rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
forced landing
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The plane had to make a forced landing in a field.
Holy Land, the
irrigated land/farms/crops
land a job (= get a job, especially unexpectedly )
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My husband finally landed a job in marketing.
land a part (= be given a part )
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He landed a part in a cop show.
land a plane (= bring it safely down onto the ground )
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The pilot managed to land the plane safely on the beach.
land a punch (= manage to hit someone )
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Then I began to land some good punches.
land a role (= be given a role )
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In 1982 he landed a role in the musical 'Destry Rides Again'.
land agent
land bridge
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Thousands of years ago, people crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America.
land grab
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Officials denounced the settlers’ land grab .
land office
land reform
land registry
land use
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Our department is responsible for establishing the guidelines for land use in the county.
landed aristocracy (= who own a lot of land )
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the landed aristocracy
landed gentry (= gentry who own land )
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a member of the landed gentry
land/get yourself in hot water
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She got herself in hot water with the authorities.
landing craft
landing gear
landing net
landing stage
landing strip
land/property/currency etc holding
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companies with large property holdings
launch/landing/helicopter pad
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The hospital has built a helicopter pad.
live off the land (= live by growing or finding their own food )
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Most people in the countryside live off the land .
never-never land
Promised Land, the
property/land values
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Property values have fallen sharply.
sighted land
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The sailors gave a shout of joy when they sighted land .
snow/land/slum etc clearance
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flooding caused by forest clearance
soft landing
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Hopes for a soft landing have faded.
the landowning/landed class (= the people who own land )
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This imposition of taxes angered the landed classes.
till the soil/land/fields etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
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It is now a thriving township of 12,000 people in the heart of the country's best agricultural land .
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With less and less agricultural land to divide among heirs, the economics of having large families has been altered.
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It is high country, with some moderately good agricultural land and substantial deposits of lignite and nonferrous metals.
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The stored water could then be used to irrigate adjacent agricultural land , and hydropower revenues would cover the inevitable losses.
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In the twentieth century, three main changes have occurred in this ownership of agricultural land .
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There are also farmers with agricultural land .
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The Victorian/Tudor style mansion is set in eight acres of mixed agricultural land , woodland and gardens.
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She could smell the chemical effluent off the agricultural land: she couldn't remember having noticed that stench before.
arable
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The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land , punctuated by low, brooding barns.
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But cold weather and a scarcity of food on arable land usually brings numbers down with the onset of winter.
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Enclosure Only half the arable land was still open fields in 1700.
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Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
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Conflicting views' Of course arable land in some places is going out of cultivation because of erosion and other destructive forces.
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Both meadow and arable land was allocated in this way.
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Wood Walton stands an oasis, surrounded by sunken arable land .
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This use of a pole to measure arable land is very ancient.
derelict
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The size of the place is breathtaking. Derelict land is occupied by a structure anyone may wonder at.
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Where possible we use derelict land first - for instance this estate here was built on the site of a factory.
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Looks at patterns of development, the approach of house builders to derelict land , and brownfield risk analysis.
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The new facilities will be sited in a former rundown building in Main Street and on adjoining derelict land .
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But one has to be careful, a piece of derelict land can be like a magnet in attracting further dereliction.
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Maybe if they had we would have transformed a piece of derelict land .
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They involve a variety of practical conservation activities - energy-saving, waste recycling and the greening of derelict land .
dry
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On dry land the nearest equivalents of the filter-feeders are the grazers.
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Stretches and deep body work rarely achieved on dry land can be performed in the water.
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The horses heaved out of the water and stood, blowing and dripping, on a ridge of dry land .
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The swelling on the horizon now seemed like dry land in the middle of an undulating ocean of light.
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She was looking forward to standing on dry land once more.
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He was treading on dry land .
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Our group learned the basics on a dry land simulator - a Topper without the sail.
foreign
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However, he may receive some additional benefits which recognise the fact that he is working in a foreign land .
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In a foreign land , one sees everything from an angle.
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We all had an extra cup of coffee to celebrate meeting in a foreign land .
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Serving a company in a foreign land , for example, is no longer either a privilege or a hardship.
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The first proposed rebuilding the Foreign Office on land only owned by the Crown at that date.
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Metaphor is no mere tourist in a foreign land , it is a bootlegger.
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These days Valdez is taking political science classes at Pima Community College and planning to study in a foreign land .
native
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I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree.
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Years later, Bishop Gregory returned to his native land .
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Never see my native land again, mountains, moorlands and glens, apart from brief holiday excursions?
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Then, as now, my native land was at a crossroads.
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Then it had been filled again, but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land .
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According to Tom, Lee brought the salad from his native land .
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When he asked her why, she shyly confessed that she was pining for the snows of her native land .
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Not because she had lost in her native land .
private
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Other companies in sectors such as oil and communications must also have way-leaves for work they want to carry out on private land .
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Even Aristotle complained that communal property always looked worse than private lands .
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None of this applies to private land , because anyone is free to seek permission from any landowner.
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The medicine wheel is on private land , and a trail used by ranch vehicles has scattered those rocks.
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Then again, the pillbox was on private land so maybe that hadn't been a problem.
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There is no large-scale effort to stamp out the fires because, in most cases, they are burning on private land .
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As the spring is on private land he had to obtain the permission of the owner, but this was readily given.
public
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All public lands and forests are shut to recreation use-they're not letting people through.
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Norton is very much of the extraction-over-conservation school when it comes to public lands .
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Aristotle noted a distinction between income from the public land and that from the citizens' private estates.
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Restraint by those using public lands is absolutely necessary.
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Nor is conservation land the only public land eligible for restitution.
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Fife Symington, most public lands in Arizona are under strict fire restrictions.
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They also sold infrastructure and public sector housing land to the councils at historic cost plus interest rather than developed land value.
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The bill would pose too much danger to national forests and other public lands , she said.
vacant
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The ranch remains the largest vacant swath of land in Santee.
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Much more interesting are the larger complexes which occupy the vacant land immediately behind the main frontages.
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The city is in the final stages of annexing a 28-mile swath of vacant land south of town.
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Public- and private-sector users were both reluctant to put vacant land on the market.
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In many cities, most vacant land was not owned by local government but by the private sector and statutory authorities.
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Kenski points to Prop 105, a referendum which exempted vacant land owned by cemeteries from taxation.
waste
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In 1875 and 1876 the Corporation purchased 3,000 acres of the open waste lands of the forest manors.
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The wound would immediately heal, the waste land become green, and the saving hero himself be installed as king.
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Punctured plastic bags blow across the adjacent plots of waste land .
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He promised to plant grasses on waste land .
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This place used to be what you could call a natural piece of waste land .
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Domesday Book makes it clear that large areas were wooded and that waste and underused land was widespread in 1086.
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Caravans stand on muddy plots of waste land .
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The market stretched across waste land scribbled out by tracks of vehicles.
■ NOUN
area
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It also plans to increase the land area 15% through reclamation projects.
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Combined, they have about one-third the population of the United States on about two-fifths the land area .
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The National Trust owns a considerable land area , much of it of importance for nature conservation.
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A very small land area is included in this zone.
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Please have some pity on the area , which is the arid land area of the country.
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However, the field patterns over the land area in the upper left of the image are blurred by the smoothing operation.
reform
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Some land reforms have embraced soil conservation as a sine qua non of long term productivity gains by land reform beneficiaries.
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The Communists have never published an official count of those killed in the land reform , but thousands died.
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If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests, then major land reform is essential.
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There was talk of land reform and demonstrations by peasants.
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The agreement bound the country to a programme of land reform whose implementation would have cost billions of dollars.
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Settlement and land reform schemes have to be administered in the interest of capitalist agriculture.
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Overall the patterns established by the 1946 land reform have been remarkably enduring.
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Genuine land reform is not about breaking up highly productive commercial farms into little plots for subsistence farmers.
use
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Rather, it sees development proceeding within a tightly controlled land use strategy.
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Finally, local government is responsible for some types of regulation, for example land use or zoning laws.
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The nub of the technical job to be done was the control of land use .
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It is the only institute in Britain with a specific remit to undertake research on land use .
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Milk and meat are both produced economically, and the breed's smallness enables tight stocking for more efficient land use .
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In 1999 the mining industry withdrew in frustration from several key land use planning tables.
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One barrier to the regulation of rural land use change is the absence of planning controls over farming and forestry.
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The declines of both networks coincided with extensive changes in land use in their areas of operation.
■ VERB
buy
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Maybe the money he earns abroad will enable him to buy more land .
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The cash will be used to fund a major investment programme, including buying new housing land and expanding its quarrying business.
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Scottsdale voters took the most decisive action last May, approving a sales-tax increase to buy land in the McDowell Mountains.
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A private citizen, secretly acting for the clergy, had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes.
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The peopIe who bought the land some years ago tore down every-thing.
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So he bought the land around the factory, and the village now covers one thousand acres.
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I have bought the land your house is built on.
farm
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For a start, subsidies themselves encourage over-intensive farming by making it economic to farm marginal land .
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The last vestiges of serfdom had disappeared in the sixteenth century, and the peasants farmed the land as leaseholders or sharecroppers.
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But at least it pays no rent and in practice it is secure so long as it farms the land and avoids bankruptcy.
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But the woods were saved, thanks to the difficulties of farming on land that is a dumping ground of glacial fill.
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We often say that intensive farming ruins the land , but in my view any form of farming does so.
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Thousands of tenant farmers who have traditionally farmed the land , have already been displaced.
hold
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However, its benefits were confined to those already holding land , and it did nothing to relieve the problem of landlessness.
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S., most timber is grown on privately held land and is sold at auction.
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The leaders accepted baptism for themselves and their people, and promised to hold their lands as vassals of the Frankish king.
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He would exact a monthly fee from each vendor, though the markets were held on city land .
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To be eligible, a corporation or individual will have to have held the land for at least five years.
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For nearly a week the fist of the frost has held tight to the land .
own
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The National Trust owns a considerable land area, much of it of importance for nature conservation.
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They decided we owned more land than we needed, and they figured out a way to get it.
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In fact, it was the ogre who owned the land that the king had just driven through.
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The king, after all, owned the land , the people, every animal and everything that grew.
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Petersburg owns the land , which has been an active cattle ranch for years.
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The king also in theory owned all the land .
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Architect Simon said the city owned the land up to 10 inches from the theater.
sell
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If you have planning permission it's a hell of a lot easier to sell land .
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They began to sell their land and, in a final bid to avoid starvation, started to flock to Calcutta.
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Using the techniques of forum theatre, the class try to persuade the old man to sell his house and land .
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In addition, the bill authorizes the General Services Administration to sell federal land in Florida that is considered surplus.
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Farmers are looking for free drainage schemes and for ways of selling their land to us.
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Or maybe just sell the land for condos.
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Small peasant farmers, who own their own plots have often been compelled to sell land through poverty and debts.
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In the meantime he can only sell his land subject to the conditions of the option agreement.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a power in the land
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Even so, it had to grow, to strengthen itself and impose itself as a power in the land.
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These courts had existed for centuries already, ever since the medieval Templars had been a power in the land.
fall/land on your feet
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After some ups and downs, young Mr Davison has landed on his feet .
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Even in an industry that shrinks faster than microwave bacon, the good people landed on their feet .
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Forgive the cliché, but for once I have fallen on my feet .
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He pushed the floor, and flipped over in the air, landing on his feet .
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However he landed on his feet .
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Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse.
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This is a company that tends to land on its feet .
in La-la Land
landed gentry/family/nobility
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But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.
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For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
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Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.
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The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.
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The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.
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The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.
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The main burden borne by the peasantry remained that of the State and the landed nobility.
live off the fat of the land
spread of land/water
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Spooked planes buzzed the limo roof at the black spread of water near La Guardia.
spy out the land
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Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property.
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She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.
the lay of the land
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He's got to get the lay of the land before he makes any decisions.
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A lot of people, especially those new to the city, have no concept of the lay of the land.
the length and breadth of the area/country/land etc
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But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country.
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They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.
the lie of the land
virgin land/forest/soil/snow etc
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After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway.
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Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest.
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Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.
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In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow.
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In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.
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Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.
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The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.
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Within an hour, Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A mall is being built on the land near the lake.
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Captain Edwards brought the plane in for a perfect landing.
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Each family was given a small piece of land where they could grow food for themselves.
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Get off my land !
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high land prices
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His travels in foreign lands provided him with the inspiration for many of his poems and songs.
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It was our dream to have our own land to raise cattle on.
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Our story takes place in a far-off land , long, long ago.
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Reptiles reproduce by laying eggs on land or giving birth to live young.
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Some repairs to the boat will have to wait until we're back on dry land .
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Their journey took them to many foreign lands.
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They had defeated the enemy on land and at sea.
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They moved to the country and bought some land .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Public- and private-sector users were both reluctant to put vacant land on the market.
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There were extremists who said that Britain could be driven from the land .
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This world is just about empty and the unoccupied land is probably fertile.
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Though we looked around for other pieces of land , my enthusiasm for the project had disappeared.
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Until recently, crown land was leased to farmers on condition that they cleared a certain amount each year.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
heavily
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The stone swung up and landed heavily on the floor.
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He landed heavily on gravel by the track.
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Consequently, you fall over or jack-knife forwards the first time you land heavily .
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Pain flared in his thigh wound as he landed heavily on his injured leg.
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Tony jumped from high up, landed heavily and pulled a face.
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He fell, landing heavily on his butt, then flattening out on to his back.
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Being a large woman, she'd landed heavily , badly hurting her left hip, her right knee and ankle.
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He crashed into a table, somersaulted over it and landed heavily on the carpet.
safely
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As his aircraft reached Kabul on May 30 it was hit by a rocket, but landed safely .
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Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side.
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But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table.
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He enjoyed the dance, and, returning with his Confederate escort, was safely landed in his own lines before daylight.
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Take care when you throw the opponent and always allow them to land safely .
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Boardman landed safely , but after refuelling, took-off and lost control, and was killed when the aircraft flipped over.
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For the police squad it was a new experience, but they had seen how it was done and all landed safely .
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By clinging to a bannister he miraculously managed to land safely .
■ NOUN
aircraft
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The relief commission has one aircraft that can land there, a Twin Otter.
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The aircraft landed at Cannon International Airport and were taxied down city streets to the auction site.
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As the aircraft landed and the pressmen poured out, they were met by a hoard of local photographers.
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On the airfields of Rio de Janeiro an aircraft lands or takes off every minute.
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The aircraft swooped in to land , almost touching the little buildings of Kowloon.
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The carrier's flight deck is too short for its aircraft to land on and putting it right will cost around £50m.
airport
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We have to land at another airport before we finish our journey.
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The aircraft landed at Cannon International Airport and were taxied down city streets to the auction site.
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Not only did Bushika become lost, he flew completely off the official map to land at Budapest international airport .
base
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One possibility was to force it to land at an army base remote to Teheran.
blow
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Had it landed , the blow would have crushed the cartilage and killed him instantly.
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The darker boy rallied and eventually landed more and heavier blows .
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The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members, so they want to land the first blows .
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Sharpe hacked again, this time landing a blow on the back of the helmet.
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This time, he hardly landed a blow as the majestic Christie cruised home.
contract
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When the Tories crested to power in 1710, Barber landed some lucrative contracts .
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Didn't we land a big contract in Bruges?
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He had landed a contract as pleased as Punch, and I made a feast for his friends.
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She landed at least two substantial contracts to supply stockings to the parliamentary army in Ireland.
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Marketing Exports has already landed contracts with a number of local companies in the horticultural sector.
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But a cautious McHale yesterday refused to be drawn on Ford's chances of landing a contract for next season.
island
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He had landed on the island before and killed penguins, quails, ducks, etc.
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Prospero and Miranda had landed on the island , where they had been living for the last twelve years.
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Penry was unlikely to look kindly on some one who landed on his island uninvited twice in a row.
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In 1521 they landed on the vast island of Sumatra.
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This however, was the only unscheduled interruption, and twenty-three of the twenty-four Hurricanes landed safely on the island .
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A lord of the court provisioned the boat, and so they survived until they landed on a deserted island .
job
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Those who can also show some engineering or other relevant qualifications are, of course, more likely to land a job .
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She has tried to land an office job , but no one will hire her, she said.
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If you let him send his resume on a pizza box, he will land a job .
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In a year's time or less she would land herself a good job , and a place to live.
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True as that might be, the process of landing a job with the firm had been suspiciously pleasant.
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Dad Ron had by now qualified as an accountant and he eventually landed a job with the local council.
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Several students who started in January acquired enough skills to land summer jobs , Frezzo said.
moon
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It wasn't long before they landed on the Moon .
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Man first landed on the moon on Saturday.
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She had walked into that café like some one landing on the moon , her eyes wide with wonder and alarm.
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A given rocket booster could actually land more mass on these bodies than it could land on the Moon !
penalty
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Both missed with other attempts before Stephens made amends in the second half, landing another three penalties and kicking three conversions.
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Andrew Ker landed two penalties for Watsonians, who were missing a few regulars.
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The Lions were thankful that Hastings landed his fourth penalty .
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Hastings landed three 50-yards plus penalties down wind and a shorter penalty while the Lions forwards created two close-range tries.
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Both Barnes and Gavin Hastings landed one penalty and one conversion.
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In the end Kevin Phillips, their captain, called on Thorburn and he landed a penalty in first-half injury time.
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Craggs added an excellent conversion, then landed his third penalty .
plane
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In the event, the plane was forced to land midway between the two cities anyway.
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His plane landed within minutes of a plane carrying Castro.
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Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields, the main body of the plane had landed in one piece.
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To add to their misery, the flight was delayed when the plane had to land at Belfast because of bad weather.
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Meanwhile the supply planes kept landing , and the guides kept preparing.
punch
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You landed a bloody good punch .
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Against Ruddock, a marginal fighter others have put away easily, Tyson never landed the big punch .
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He shot out his right arm and landed a punch on Lorrimer's nose.
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Tyson landed one punch after the other until a perfect right uppercut almost sent Bruno out of the ring.
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In the second round Trentham began to land the odd punch , but never hard enough to allow Tommy to go down.
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And while Ruelas' outstanding defensive instincts were evident, Herrera landed good punches throughout.
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The first tried to land a punch , but he missed.
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Then I began to land some good punches .
role
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Before landing his role in the super-soap series, Nader was a model who made it into movies.
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The producer never laughed - perhaps he knew all the jokes - but Crawford landed the role of Junior Sailen.
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He studied art in Paris and Florence, then landed a Broadway role .
trouble
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There was no harm in that but it landed him in trouble every time.
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Might we not show these photographs to the government and land the people in trouble ?
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Which is just as well because some of them have played just a little bit too hard, landing themselves in serious trouble .
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He was irascible, hard-cussing, for ever landing in trouble .
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Jones landed in trouble over his commentary on a football video glorifying violence.
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But that would land Dolly in trouble .
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Modern-day racers are under the public spotlight and any slip-up can land them in serious trouble .
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It doesn't have to land you in trouble .
water
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Illegal testing can land employers in hot water to the tune of $ 10, 000 per violation.
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McIntyre landed in hot water for an alleged V-sign to the fans after last week's disappointing home draw with Athlone Town.
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There was a plop as it landed in the water , then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down.
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As it landed in the water the Jet Ranger immediately rolled to port.
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It landed in the water just in front of where the boy was standing.
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Down swooped the privet bird, landing gracefully on the water with hardly a splash.
■ VERB
try
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With the reef below, and a boat nearby to give them assistance they decided to try and land .
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In October 1994, Hultgreen was killed while trying to land on the Lincoln.
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The injured man appeared to lose control of his chute as he tried to land .
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She has tried to land an office job, but no one will hire her, she said.
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The plane was completely destroyed when it hit a mountain in bad weather as it was trying to land .
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One chopper tried to land , but the guys shot at him.
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Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship.
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The realities of flying kicked in when Amelia tried to land the Avian at Rodgers field outside Pittsburgh.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a power in the land
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Even so, it had to grow, to strengthen itself and impose itself as a power in the land.
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These courts had existed for centuries already, ever since the medieval Templars had been a power in the land.
fall/land on your feet
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After some ups and downs, young Mr Davison has landed on his feet .
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Even in an industry that shrinks faster than microwave bacon, the good people landed on their feet .
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Forgive the cliché, but for once I have fallen on my feet .
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He pushed the floor, and flipped over in the air, landing on his feet .
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However he landed on his feet .
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Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse.
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This is a company that tends to land on its feet .
in La-la Land
landed gentry/family/nobility
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But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.
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For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
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Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.
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The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.
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The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.
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The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.
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The main burden borne by the peasantry remained that of the State and the landed nobility.
live off the fat of the land
spread of land/water
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Spooked planes buzzed the limo roof at the black spread of water near La Guardia.
the lay of the land
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He's got to get the lay of the land before he makes any decisions.
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A lot of people, especially those new to the city, have no concept of the lay of the land.
the length and breadth of the area/country/land etc
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But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country.
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They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.
the lie of the land
virgin land/forest/soil/snow etc
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After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway.
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Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest.
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Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.
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In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow.
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In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.
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Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.
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The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.
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Within an hour, Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A flock of Canada geese landed on the river in front of us.
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A French company has landed a contract to supply computers to China.
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Before landing in Algiers, we circled the airport several times.
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Despite severe weather conditions, the Boeing 727 landed as scheduled.
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Fishermen were landing their catch at the harbor.
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Flight 846 from Cleveland landed five minutes ago.
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He's managed to land himself an amazing job in advertising.
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He loves watching planes take off and land at the airport.
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Luckily, I managed to land a great job with a law firm.
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There's a plane coming in to land now.
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We will be landing at Singapore airport at 3 am local time.
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When the plane landed at JFK, it was three hours late.
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You mean Rich landed an 18-pound fish by himself?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He didn't hear it land .
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It was not a bad wound, but entirely enough to make me land badly and wrench my ankle.
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Most at least peek to see where the ball lands.
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She thought of landing in New York.
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We then set out for Muscat, but with nightfall approaching, we landed in Abu Dhabi.