Sentence examples for brief being from inspiring English sources

There survive only one complete and one partial book from the De viris illustribus; the biographies in these extant texts are mostly quite brief, being a few characteristic anecdotes strung together to illustrate trite moral principles.

By April 1836, when the Beagle made the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean Fitzroy's brief being to see if coral reefs sat on mountain tops Darwin already had his theory of reef formation.

Blumenthal creates seven new dishes to be sent up to the International Space Station, the brief being to take British astronaut Tim Peake on a nostalgic trip back to his childhood.

But an interested observer might speculate that it was precisely this lack of coherence from the minister that has since resulted in the forests brief being taken from him and handed to a junior colleague.

There will be a continuing internship programme, the younger ones staying for two weeks, then six-week and three-month programmes for older students, the first brief being to adapt Rhodes' style to their own.

His brief is daunting.

His brief is certainly daunting.

The brief was ambitious.

The brief was successful.

My brief is Enlightenment.

His tutorials, though brief, are highly useful.