Sentence examples for adapt a number of from inspiring English sources

Take the Boston Gazette, from whose pages we freely adapt a number of news items, and into which we insert letters, editorials, and advertisements of our own devising.

After his movie-directing debut in "Truly Madly Deeply," a made-for-television production that was released theatrically in 1990, Mr. Minghella went on to adapt a number of novels for a series of well-reviewed films.

A veteran screenwriter, Mr. LaGravenese has helped adapt a number of heavy and light books for the screen — "A Little Princess," "The Bridges of Madison County," "Beloved" — and has largely wrestled this one and its original 500 or so pages down to manageable size.

In doing so, BMI practitioners adopt and adapt a number of methods drawn from the computational, quantitative, and qualitative sciences.

On the importance of gameshows to Granada's early success: "Sidney Bernstein adapted a number of US formats, including what became University Challenge, and Criss Cross Quiz.

The producer Peter Guber has adapted a number of Roberts's books into Lifetime movies, four of which aired on Saturday nights this spring.

In later decades Resnais turned to the theatre for inspiration, adapting a number of plays for the screen including three Alan Ayckbourns.

He has gone on to write numerous bestsellers and become an academic celebrity, currently teaching at Harvard, and has adapted a number of his books into TV series that he presents himself.

In Paradise Lost first published in 10 books in 1667 and then in 12 books in 1674, at a length of almost 11,000 lines Milton observed but adapted a number of the Classical epic conventions that distinguish works such as Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey and Virgil's The Aeneid.

In order to survive in the environment, plants have adapted a number of strategies and one of them is the production of secondary metabolites (Zhao et al. 2005).

The Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle (FMAV), with a 50 cm wingspan and a double-crank drive system, performed successful flights of up to 23 min. The performance and capabilities of the FMAV were enhanced by adapting a number of unique features, such as a bird-mimetic wing shape with a span-wise camber and an up-down and twisting wing drive mechanism with double-crank linkages.