Sentence examples for a controlled burning from inspiring English sources

Before us: a mountain on which a line of leaping flames (a controlled burning of farmland, most likely) snaked up the side, the only source of illumination beside the stars and our headlights.

The cause of the fire is unknown, but Mr Steemson told BBC News no legal swailing - a controlled burning of overgrown heathland to clear the ground and encourage new growth - had been approved.

On Wednesday, the Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies tested a controlled burning process to help get rid of the rest, in a procedure that has previously been used after natural disasters in Texas and Alabama.

At the State Mine fire, planned back-burning - a controlled burn aimed at managing a fire - had been thwarted "by the forward spread of the main fire front," he said.

What is clear is that nobody should be stampeded into abandoning a policy of controlled burning that, on the whole, has been remarkably successful.

Mole, as explained to me by the American Mexican food expert Rick Bayless, is an extraordinary thing: part sauce, part condiment, a testament to the controlled burning of multiple ingredients to produce a flavour which is both many things and only itself.

If, however, they are subjected instead to pyrolysis a process of controlled burning in a low-oxygen atmosphere the result is charcoal, a substance that is mostly elemental carbon.

Goatman adds that without the ponies, there would be a greater reliance on "swaling" (controlled burning) to manage the gorse.

A spokeswoman for the conservationists said: "Gorse is an increasing problem on the forest and small controlled burning has traditionally been a routine method of managing it.

Fire chiefs say a combination of back-burning - the controlled burning of areas with the aim of depriving a fire of fuel - building lines of containment and strategic planning had paid off.

The controlled burning process involves an air curtain burner, the size of a shipping container, that creates a curtain of air over the debris to keep embers and ash inside.