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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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big
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So we decided to occupy some unused land owned by Don Juan Lopez, the big landowner of our region.
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Legally dispossessed, the big landowners have almost everywhere recovered their advantage over the small peasants.
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They might no longer be the biggest landowners: more people now worked off the estate than on it.
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To make matters worse, the big landowners are conservative and reluctant to accept technological progress.
great
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Sir Leicester Dedlock retains many of the characteristics of a great eighteenth-century landowner .
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The Despensers also enriched themselves by harassing the widows and heiresses of great landowners .
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Usually enclosure was forced through at the instigation and will of the greater landowners .
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Reza Shah also seized land form the clergy and other great landowners .
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Serfs were tied to the land and the great landowners did largely as they pleased.
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These were not great landowners , and less than half had more than four manors, even fewer parks around their houses.
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A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner .
large
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The parliament he defended, and whose reform he opposed, was one dominated by large landowners .
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Were they ministers, the funeral home owner, the largest landowner ?
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There is likely to be tension between landlord and tenant, between large landowners and impecunious peasants.
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Certainly the Abbey were known to be large landowners in the area.
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He became a book-keeper to Dom Joâo José da Câmara, one of the largest landowners at that time.
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Even the large landowners living in Madrid prided themselves on their interest in their tenantry.
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Elsewhere the chief headmen and large rice-field landowners were invariably Goyigama.
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This is because the Congress is dominated by large landowners and the Presidents themselves owned hefty chunks.
local
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In 1750 she married Charles Dalrymple, local landowner and Sheriff-Clerk of Ayrshire, an important post at that time.
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His people no longer wandered but worked, when they could, for local landowners .
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Should the Council, and perhaps the local landowners , provide large car parks?
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But that effort has been stalled; local landowners claim the state improperly took their land.
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He was descended from an old family of local landowners , the Leftwich family of Leftwich Hall, Cheshire.
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The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.
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Backing also came from leading local landowners .
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Sir John was a local landowner who had no love for Darrel at all.
major
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Richard Sackville of Buckhurst, in the business of making shot, was a major landowner with 200 marks a year.
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By the early 1960s Leech was a major landowner in the area of what was to be the New Town.
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The major landowners were the duchy of York, with which Gloucester had no formal connection, and the earls of Shrewsbury.
other
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In addition it has encouraged other landowners to create 460 acres of new woods.
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Reza Shah also seized land form the clergy and other great landowners .
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A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner .
private
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The incidence of rent and labour strikes and land seizures from private landowners rose during the 1890s.
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Basically, if there are no pygmy owls present, a private landowner can turn his critical habitat into a parking lot.
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So now the Commission and other countryside conservation groups, have produced a series of guidelines for the private landowners to follow.
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With the range of powers available, mineral workings can not, without good cause, be prevented by private landowners .
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Timber producers, who make up most of the private landowners welcome that advise.
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We also work for private landowners .
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These have been mainly Government-owned and public lands, leaving the large private landowners untouched.
rich
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How can we justify rich landowners taking public handouts while making their farmworkers redundant?
small
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It was certainly the only sort acceptable to the small number of landowners who were prepared to embark upon change.
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That much is clear, but how did the small landowner of a yardland or less fare in these circumstances?
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In this way, a small number of landowners can control the peasantry in rural areas.
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Most small landowners like Bhushan have been threatened into leasing their land at an unjust rent.
wealthy
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Grandfather: Nicholai Alexandrovich Romanov, merchant, and one of the wealthiest landowners in Petrograd.
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His father was a wealthy landowner with holdings up and down the lower Delaware.
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The concern of the wealthy landowner was to continue as long as possible the wealth and social status of the family.
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The Tzeltal and Tojolabal in Chiapas were driven into the rocky highlands after their lush flatlands were taken over by wealthy landowners .
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Currently, subsidies that were envisaged as a way of protecting farmers in poor areas are being commercially exploited by wealthy landowners .
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A narrow élite among the wealthier landowners and bureaucrats was developing tastes and interests which broke the Orthodox mould.
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Both of these countries have wealthy white landowners whose procurement of the land was with duress against the indigenous people.
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Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers.