Sentences with phrase «ploughed fields»

Comprising built up layers of torn white paper and PVA glue in loosely alternating rectangles of horizontal and vertical lines and resembling ploughed fields seen from the air, the structure is both accentuated and denied by the way the light and shadow is distributed over the uneven surface.

The floors of three of the Palazzo's grand salone have been covered in a work called Days that can not bring you near (2005), made of clods of earth which Gallaccio has lifted from ploughed fields around the town and shaped into a grid.

When he considered the birds of the air, the flowers of the field, the setting sun, when he saw a farmer ploughing a field, a woman patching a garment, a child rebuked by his disciples, a person ravaged by illness — he was alive to God's presence and will.

In a land as frequently fought over as ancient Palestine the chance discovery of valuables hidden for safe keeping in some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dream.

or «How fine is this ploughed field!»

One error but I'll guarantee you that next time he is playing on a ploughed field he will head it straight out instead of trying to anticipate the bounce.

Rodney Parade is regularly used for rugby and does not benefit from the artificial weave enjoyed at the Liberty Stadium, so whilst not exactly resembling a ploughed field it will not be anywhere near the pristine grass carpets enjoyed by our players at Premier League venues across the country.

That it's too easy to dismiss these players as «lower league cloggers» on the basis of a couple of games on a ploughed field.

But there are others like Kanye West who have continued to plough that field.

More power — probably more than is available from a tractor engine — would be needed in ploughing a field.

Some have suggested that trawling stirs up the seabed, throwing potential food into the water column — rather like ploughing a field.

But the government allowed farmers to begin ploughing the fields to control weeds in May.

Doing this, you can start enjoying the gameplay itself by perfecting how you plough a field, for example; it's a lot more fun than it sounds!

We see locals planting and harvesting rice, ploughing fields, tending livestock and reaping the labours of local plantations.

You can't plough a field every year.

Tantamount, 2005, includes a bale of straw that was specially commissioned at an irregular 6ft diameter to represent the harvest of an acre of land, which in turn was conceived as it represented a day's work - ploughing a field.

In this work the contours of a ploughed field are created using eight tonnes of loose, long - grain rice illuminated from within by red neon lighting.

Fortunately being so near the excellent Met Office archives and Library AND that this field of research is already a well ploughed field (although mostly forgotten), it is clear that the idea of weather being AS extreme, let alone MORE extreme than the past can be readily refuted.

But sequestration of carbon in land can not compensate for continued fossil fuel emissions — fossil fuel emissions are permanent, whereas storing carbon in forests and soils is temporary and can be easily reversed by cutting down trees and ploughing fields.

Not exact matches

For still others, it may be a steel plough that will reduce the labor of preparing the fields.

When years of famine came, I ploughed all the fields of the Oryx barony (his estate) as far as its southern and its northern boundary, preserving its people alive, furnishing its food so that there was none hungry therein.

So, although he would do certain things by rule - of - thumb experience — plough after sowing, protect the field from birds or wandering animals, etc. — for the most part after sowing he went his daily round with his prayers said, his fingers crossed and a wary eye on the field.

This increases the amount of crop used and saves edible produce being ploughed back into the field

We also think supermarkets must work much more closely with their suppliers so as not to cancel pre-ordered food which has been grown, is perfectly edible and is then ploughed straight back into the field.

European cups and league titles all meant nothing until the world's best footballers had been kicked a lot on a plough - field.

Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary who has written to Mr Gove's most senior civil servant demanding to know why the Education Secretary had ignored the panel, said: «The fact that Michael Gove has ignored the advice of independent experts and ploughed ahead with selling off school playing fields shows he is shamefully out of touch.

As the craft ploughs deeper into the galaxy, the NASA team will look for an anticipated change in magnetic field direction that would indicate that Voyager 1 is at last clear of all solar influences except gravity, as well as anything that can be gleaned about interstellar space, before we lose contact.

Though they give you some quick cash, they can be very monotonous as all of them are pretty much identical in gameplay (for example, driving a vehicle up and down a field until all of it is harvested, fertilised, ploughed or sown).

The final days before WWI sees a young boy, Albert (newcomer Jeremy Irvine), taking on the duty of bringing a horse named Joey up to scratch for ploughing his father's (Peter Mullan, Trainspotting) field.

On PC and console, fields need to be properly maintained: they need to be ploughed, fertilized, and cultivated regularly in order for crops to grow and produce the highest yield.

On occasion, ploughing, Idris had counted thirteen different species of bird in his field.

Like a priest & young boys, all a farmer ever sees (& can't resist) are virgin fields just waiting to get ploughed... That can prove an expensive proposition.

Today, a large proportion of people in the UK don't even know what a working animal is, but — from cart and plough horses to pit ponies — they were a familiar sight in the streets, fields and workplaces of Britain for centuries.

Amidst the rice terraces of Northern Ubud, herons scour the rice fields for small fish, farmers are hard at work ploughing the land and us?

Ploughing the rice paddy fields with water buffalo in Laos sounds like such hard work, yet so much fun, I would definitely give that a try!

Having a go at ploughing a paddy field using their water buffalo.

It was interesting to see two different methods used to plough the rice fields.

Even the German Chancellor Angela Merkel can't get enough of ploughing virtual fields.

The cars in Forza Horizon 3 look and sound authentic, and up to a point they feel authentic to drive too, but they will all drift elegantly, they will all plough across fields and ford rivers without bogging down, and they will all survive jumping off cliffs with aplomb.

Working in pencil upon a thick layer of still - wet paint, the artist traces a sequence of rhythmic, graphic loops, ploughing grooves and furrows into a monochromatic field.

The human figures, organized in rows, repeat their movements, moving without advancing, in barren fields ploughed with dark lines.

This isn't to say that female artists haven't found surrealism a productive field to plough, as the dizzyingly beautiful Dreamers Awake makes clear.

Protection in this case means that landowners have surrendered their rights to do a host of things on their lands — everything from ploughing and planting an old field, to building a recreational trail through a cedar swamp that may shelter wintering deer.