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The most notable of these barriers is a complicated system of land ownership, poor roads, and a derelict telecommunications network.
Off to one side was a gray, derelict, ramshackle house that looked ready to fall down.
Firefighters dealt with a fire in a derelict refrigeration unit early today.
Council machinery will clear and level the derelict overgrown area so that landscaping can start.
The property was derelict, and the cows, mostly rejects from other herds, were no respecters of finely-nuanced sophistry.
He said the Department of Environment had first to approve these designations before the Council can levy the owners of derelict sites.
For 170 years Ballina's Augustinian Abbey has lain derelict and inconspicuous at the bottom of Ardnaree near St Muredach's Cathedral.
Plastic toys, cigarette lighters, and derelict fishing gear smother the coral reefs and litter the island shores.
But when I apply pressure nothing comes out and the flames grow even more ferocious, enveloping the room in what might be a derelict tenement.
The house at 549 Lordship Lane, now an important listed building, is in a derelict state.
After being made redundant, she slept rough for a few nights in a derelict building and was unlucky enough to be caught in a heavy frost.
Money for the estate and a derelict manor house will come from the Millennium Fund, the EU and direct government funds.
At the disruption they were obliged to move from the manse to a derelict cottage, to enable them to stay in the parish.
The grant will allow the council to begin filling in the South Bay Pool, demolishing derelict buildings and terracing the slopes.
If fields, houses, gates, fences, derelict houses are untidy, then we lose marks.
We turned right and, sure enough, the road was blocked and the car park boarded off and derelict.
But in Byrom Street, Blackburn town centre, near to the old St Wilfrid's school building, the gable end of a derelict church was blown down.
It was now extremely dark as the towering, derelict offices clouded away the sky.
Long grass on each side of the street, a derelict and neglected building bereft of glass and doors.
The shutters of derelict buildings creaked and groaned like mall nourished prisoners in cages as he passed them.
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He might have towed her to port as a derelict, but he radioed for advice and I told him to leave her.
When she was chocked, a course was shaped for the derelict brig, according to the indication of the masthead man.
The Tongan fleet would be derelict at Kamba for want of hands to work the sails after the battle.
To a large extent the criminals, single handedly, created a private sector in these derelict economies.
Meanwhile the ship drifted, a derelict on the face of the Pacific.
Had he been derelict in duty and let this lamb wander from the fold?
The sequel to the strange arrival of the derelict in the storm last night is almost more startling than the thing itself.
I've known a derelict up-end and sift her engines out of herself and flicker round the Lower Lanes for three weeks on her forward tanks only.
It made empty high street shops, office premises and derelict warehouses fair game for squatters.
The crew of the tugboat bailed out the derelict and towed her to Penzance.
The Mark Boat signals we must attend to the derelict, now whistling her death-song, as she falls beneath us in long sick zigzags.
Always glad to pick up a derelict, may be a chance for salvage, you know.
We are going to help the derelict division of French in every way we can.
He looked forward to big changes at the south-of-the-river site once dominated by gasometers, but now looking rather derelict.
So great was his interest that he had forgotten the particular derelict he had come to serve, until Spear stood almost at his elbow.
It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure, to what end built I could not determine.
As they steamed nearer to the derelict they were surprised to note that it was the same vessel that had run from them a few weeks earlier.
Crumlin Road Courthouse in North Belfast has been lying derelict for 15 years and is in a state of serious disrepair.
We took a series of photos of that derelict when we stumbled on it.
He felt as he had at his father's death, rudderless, derelict.
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