Sentence examples for about to be consumed from inspiring English sources

We chose a rapidly transforming agricultural area about to be consumed by big-box development and suburbanization as a site for testing precision conservation at an urban scale.

By the end, as the alcohol-soaked monarch was about to be consumed by Watergate, the courtier was more or less running the show.

They couldn't know, as they nibbled at their smoked-salmon salads, that their neighbourhood was about to be consumed by a force with the destructive energy of 1,500 Hiroshima bombs.

A batchelor is sitting by his fireside when he sees on a small block of wood about to be consumed by the flames the printed words "The President and His Wife are sitting contentedly in their home".

What he doesn't know is that this is a portent of what will happen to him: he's about to be consumed by the people in the village he once loved.

The anaesthetised piglet was apparently smuggled into the ground in a cooler, the stewards involved told a few porkies (sorry) that the animal was about to be consumed as lunch.

Besides the decision about what to eat, daily energy intake might be even more dependent on the decision about the portion size to be consumed.

Peter Gleick: It is time to stop thinking about water as a resource simply to be consumed and to think about how critical it really is for human and ecological survival, growing the food needed by over 7 billion people, countless social and cultural customs, and the production of all the goods and services we consume.

About 2 ATP is known to be consumed for 1 bp synthesis during transcription [ 65].

But we argue that it is plausible that, when subjects succeed on the task by making use of their conscious perceptual memory of the stimulus, information about that perceptual memory is available to be consumed by any action system.

Moreover, they send a cultural message about things that should be consumed carefully.