Sentence examples for about to materialise from inspiring English sources

"He's so big he envelops us all," said Lydia, as if he were about to materialise in the room.

He'd looked to the Church to turn him straight in the 1970s, he told me, but became bitter when the treatment he'd heard about failed to materialise.

The disruption rate (the amount of promised copper that fails to materialise), about 2% five years ago, is now as high as 8%, according to Andrew Keen of HSBC.

"We would certainly rather be having a conversation about whether the threat of trafficking was ever going to materialise rather than about it as a reality on the streets of London and we should continue to be vigilant in the face of such a threat".

Despite a cluster of paps milling about outside, Michael himself failed to materialise, but here are five things we learned anyway.

If better scores still fail to materialise after about seven sessions, referral to another therapist is the appropriate option.

They were concerned about a possible surge in imports (yet to materialise) due to tariff reductions resulting from China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001.

I wrote yesterday about predictions of runaway inflation that stubbornly refused to materialise.

Vaught said other companies had made similar promises about jobs and revitalisation in Detroit that had failed to materialise.

But both that, and later assurances about a replacement facility within another building, have yet to materialise.

5 Assumptions made about intuitive benefits from increased tourism have also failed to materialise in previous Games such as in Sydney or Seoul.