Sentence examples for be swallowed by development from inspiring English sources

This rich, productive landscape could easily be swallowed by development, but Kraus is advocating for investment to maintain the area as an "Ag-Gem" that will sustain quality of life not only for farmers and agricultural workers but for nearby urban Bay area communities as well.

Much of the cemetery has already been swallowed by development in recent decades.

Fernweh: a sickness, a longing to swallow up the Alps or to be swallowed by them.

"The whole country could be swallowed by civil war".

He'd be swallowed by London, squashed by everywhere else.

In theory, Samarinda could be swallowed by coal.

The nearest planets will be swallowed by the sun.

Chances are they will not be swallowed by an earthquake.

Whole buildings can be swallowed by faults.

Like Hollywood Park, Aintree was swallowed by a major conurbation which tilted the economics of land use towards development rather than leisure.

Of the total £3.5bn allotted to urban development corporations - Heseltine's great Eighties hope for regeneration - 53 per cent, £1.86bn, was swallowed by Docklands.