Sentence examples for extant material from inspiring English sources

It's just rummaging through extant material culture and juxtaposing it with other things to create something different.

Or, rather, he decided to assemble a libretto from extant material, because he realized that the subject resisted a conventional treatment.

"If the act can effectively eliminate the real-child requirement when a proposal relates to extant material, a class of protected speech will disappear," Justice Souter said.

The extant material in Nepali, with the possible exception of the memoirs (c. 1770) of the Gurkha king Prithvi Narayan Shah, has more historical than literary interest.

Donning the mantle of historians-cum-detectives, writers including Patricia Cornwell and amateur investigators such as Russell Edwards have trawled through the Ripper case files and extant material to find "conclusive" proof of the killer's identity, and to turn these theories to publishing profit.

The relationship of the various forms of Sogdian to one another has not yet been sufficiently investigated, so that it is not clear whether different dialects are represented by the extant material or whether the differences can be accounted for by reference to other relevant factors, such as differences of script, period, subject, style, or social milieu.

But the coverage provided by the extant materials is patchy.

The original version of the Arabic Plotinus would have been more extensive than what is covered by our extant materials, since these materials sometimes break off in a fragmentary fashion.

Since the enclosure will not contain the heavy album anymore, the decision was made to just reattach and stabilize the extant materials, rather than recreating the lost walls of the tray and edges of the lid with new board.

Although the chronological range of the extant Khotanese material is limited to only a few centuries, probably the 7th to the 10th, a rapid development of the language is apparent.

A great deal more is known about the neo-Hittite states of Syria in the 10th century than about those of inner Anatolia, because much of the extant source material is Assyrian and the Assyrian kings had not yet penetrated into Cilicia and Cappadocia.