Sentence examples for task of copying from inspiring English sources

They were very childlike, and they were happy to take up the task of copying out manuscripts.

Although Robert's chronology is somewhat dubious because the task of copying was left to his successors, his account of Henry's experiences in continental Europe is extremely valuable, and his use of such other sources as Fulbert of Chartres, Eadmer, and Bede is reliable.

The subject's task consisted of copying the goal configuration by moving the balls in the start configuration (Fig. 2b, c).

Scribes faced the daunting task of precisely copying the Muslim holy book and in a way became early page designers, deciding how to present the material in the most harmonious arrangement in the space available.

The group also took some of the authors to task for copying entire passages from a report they wrote last year for the conservative Manhattan Institute, without proper attribution.

The data replication problem (DRP; see [6]) is a formal description of the task of distributing copies of data records (that is, database fragments) among a set of servers in a distributed database system.

Then they had people do either a boring task (copying a matrix of letters) or a less boring task (using that same matrix of letters to find people's names).

This will save you the task of having to copy your plug-in DLL into the Plug-in directory for MapWindow in order to load when it runs.

Instead I thought about all the hours and days I'd spent on the administrative junk: the web pages I developed, the excruciating task of writing sales copy, and the PDFs I'd created, and I realized that this wasn't my dream.

Jones explains: "It seems pretty clear that children master a great many tasks by copying the movements of others (and so do adults: try learning a dance step from a book).

Bacteria use small circuits of genes to manage routine tasks like copying their DNA or neutralizing a toxin.