Sentence examples for and were adapted from inspiring English sources

Their opponents contend that in some coldblooded reptiles feathers evolved from their scales and were adapted originally for flight.

On the flipside, many classics have their roots in the sinister realities of life, and were adapted from folktales.

Most were ostrich-sized and were adapted for fast running, with particularly long foot bones, or metatarsals.

With improved transportation and communication, highly localized skills and arts connected with textile manufacture spread to other countries and were adapted to local needs and capabilities.

Drawn from private and public collections throughout the world, the objects illustrate the origins of the movement in Britain and how the ideas spread and were adapted in America, Europe and Japan.

In recent years Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was always known as Jane, has become famous for a quartet of novels known as the "Cazalet Chronicles", which draw on her own family story and were adapted for radio and television.

"Mandarin squares" had been attached front and back to Ming official robes as symbols of civil and military rank and were adapted by the Manchus to their own distinctive dress.

February 8 , 1955Jonesboro, Arkansas John Grisham, (born February 8 , 1955 Jonesboro, Arkansas, U.S.) American writer whose legal thrillers often topped best-seller lists and were adapted to film.

The Wallander novels, which are set across Sweden and Mozambique, focus on the activities of the fictional inspector, and were adapted into a television series both in Sweden and in Britain and starred British actor Kenneth Branagh.

It starred Sam Neill, Hans Matheson and Keira Knightley, and was adapted by Andrew Davies.

It later was translated successfully into French and was adapted as a movie and a musical.