Sentence examples for a major bequest from inspiring English sources

"Not only is he being generous during his own lifetime, but there will be a major bequest coming".

The foundation itself gave away $23 million, or about the same as in the previous year, thanks in part to a major bequest it received in late 2006.

"Dallas Price had planned to give us a major bequest, but then she decided she didn't want to wait but rather give us a donation while she is still very active," said Jeremy Strick, the museum's director.

Gliebe has been promising for 10 years to publish Pierce's last book, a collection of essays titled Who We Are, but has not done so -- despite the threat that a major bequest to the Alliance will not be released by the estate's executor until Who We Are finally goes to press.

The museum's collective mind has lately been concentrated elsewhere: on its physical expansion and on a recent major bequest of paintings.

Designed by Stirling Prize winning architects Caruso St John, it holds a major private bequest of the artist Jacob Epstein's personal collection that includes work by Modigliani and Lucian Freud, alongside masterpieces by artists such as Van Gogh, Monet and Constable.

This large-scale showing of the collection comes in advance of Sigg's major bequest to the M+ Museum, opening in 2019, in Hong Kong.

The Gallery was even less well equipped for its next major bequest, as J. M. W. Turner was to bequeath the entire contents of his studio, excepting unfinished works, to the nation upon his death in 1851.

Rumors abound about major bequests to pets, although facts are difficult to pin down.

Designated space has also been made for the museum's major bequests of work by Turner, Blake and Henry Moore.

The British royal family received no major bequests.