(n.) A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cross will now move to the Royal British Legion’s national memorial arboretum in Staffordshire.
(2) In the UK, war widows attended a service of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum's Millennium chapel to mark the anniversary.
(3) His wealth is reported to be somewhere in the order of £250m, and has bought him all the luxuries and pleasures of old money, in particular his beloved 50-acre arboretum, which he considers his legacy.
(4) Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at Kew Gardens, which has 14,000 trees, told the Guardian a complete ban was needed on imports of any plants that threatened a species, and a one-year quarantine was needed for all plants coming into Britain.
(5) In Britain the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, the UK's centre for remembrance will be holding a day of commemoration including a service of remembrance in its chapel and a wreath-laying at the Normandy Veteran's Memorial.
(6) The Bastion memorial wall at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire will be built with £300,000 from the £35m armed forces covenant (Libor) fund.
(7) Photograph: Alamy Tyntesfield Distance from junction 2½ miles from 19 (southbound); 6 miles from 20 (northbound) Follow signs for Bristol (off B3128) This mysterious Victorian gothic revival house and estate has layers of terraced lawns with flower-filled borders and a hidden kitchen garden, plus parkland with an arboretum and dens, all surrounded by lush Somerset hills.
(8) Greenwood travelled to Penderecki's home outside Krakow, with its hundreds of acres of arboretum, and this time, Penderecki knew who he was.
(9) The emotional service at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire was attended by hundreds of current and former service personnel and their families.
(10) Other lots included a cup of tea with Lord Heseltine, plus a tour of his arboretum.
(11) A sustained campaign by relatives of some of the men led to the granting of a collective pardon on 8 November 2006 and a Shot at Dawn memorial in their honour now stands in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire .
(12) The Bastion Memorial Wall at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire will be built with £300,000 from the £35m armed forces covenant (Libor) fund.
(13) Sweet chestnut is being touted as the replacement for the English oak in parkland – the Westonbirt Arboretum is currently planting a collection with climate change in mind.
(14) Three decades after Argentinian troops seized Port Stanley, the capital of the south Atlantic islands, Falklands veterans and widows of those killed gathered at a service of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
(15) Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at Kew Gardens, which has 14,000 trees and has seen many attacked in the past few years, said some of the most serious threats came from the oak processionary moth .
(16) Casa Vina de Alcantara ( vinadealcantara .com ; doubles €160) is an elegant house in an arboretum, with 10 rooms and a pool, a short drive from the town centre Marathon du Médoc, France 10-11 September Thought marathons were all about sports drinks and energy bars?
(17) The oaks will be planted at Kew Gardens, William Brookes school in Much Wenlock, the Forestry Commission's National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, and at the UPS London Central Centre in Camden.
(18) Patients of the Brandon Street practice in Leicester and the Arboretum surgery in Nottingham have made the same accusation: that the Practice plc is walking away from contracts in areas of high deprivation where it finds it cannot make money.
Freehold
Definition:
(n.) An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, few new commonhold flats are being built, as developers do not have the incentive of profiting from the freehold.
(2) It has enabled the Tories to buy back the freehold of the building, which they had sold off to cut their debts, giving them an opportunity to develop the listed property to raise cash.
(3) The declaration is not a cure-all, he adds, but can include things such as stipulating that the share of freehold relating to each flat is transferred when each one is sold and that the other joint owners agree to co-operate in transferring the freehold on sale.
(4) But Southern Cross is now struggling to meet a huge rent bill because it offloaded freeholds to raise cash during the boom years.
(5) The freehold was only shared with the owners of one other flat, so it seemed like a great arrangement.
(6) His first step was to bring the residents together so he could bring a leasehold valuation tribunal (LVT) case against the freeholder and property manager.
(7) No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land.
(8) There are things you could – and should – do before you buy a share of freehold property.
(9) "Where the building contains only a few flats it is not always appropriate to form a company to share the freehold.
(10) Because of the problems it has seen relating to share of freehold, the advisory service has issued advice to people buying this type of property to consider a declaration of trust.
(11) It also left £65m of cash in the business, later increased to £74m, as well as about £100m of freehold and long leaseholds.
(12) Sir Ken always maintained that Morrisons should keep hold of the freeholds on its properties and fought to limit debt – even during the company's buyout of Safeway.
(13) Under this arrangement, upkeep of all the common areas will be the responsibility of the shared freeholders, who can either arrange the work themselves or employ a managing agent.
(14) If an emirate’s sovereign wealth fund were to pop up with a £20bn offer for the Palace of Westminster’s freehold, promising a leaseback to parliament after a lavish refurbishment that closed it for half-a-dozen years, who can say that this wouldn’t be welcomed by a British government as yet more evidence that “UK plc is open for business”?
(15) T'would be amusing if it were to happen while the freeholder of this blog Marcus Christenson, the crown prince of Sweden, was on holiday.
(16) When Debenhams was taken over by private equity in the boom years of the noughties, its executives sold off freehold properties, cut costs, and loaded the business with £1bn in debt, before trebling their money by floating it on the Stock Exchange.
(17) Channel 4 currently has £200m in reserves as well as a £250m unused borrowing facility, as well as the freehold on its central London headquarters, which could bring in a further £50m.
(18) In the case of “foundation” schools – schools whose ownership is in the hands of a trust – switching to academy status entails a direct transfer of freehold from the trust to the new sponsors.
(19) The lending criteria of one unnamed major bank, sent to brokers, says the following are excluded: “Studio flats, freehold flats, flats with unacceptable access arrangements (eg rear external staircases), flats converted from former office blocks or flats within blocks where our valuer reports inadequate maintenance of communal areas, ex-local authority or ex-public sector flats that are greater than four storeys high or that have open decking access.” Anecdotally, there is evidence that some lenders are also becoming nervous about expensive one-bedroom flats in London, limiting the maximum mortgage to £500,000.
(20) He already holds the cheaply bought freehold of the Croydon building so the shop does not need to be that profitable to give him a healthy return.