Sentence examples for they were refined from inspiring English sources

"They were refined again and again to make sure that they were functional and not too throwaway," Ton says.

"We cannot make the mistake with Romans of supposing that they were refined, like the Greeks they envied and imitated," he writes near the end of this volume.

And they were refined by similar treks along the viciously beautiful coastline of Port Macquarie where the book is set, as we made a nuisance of ourselves with the local historical society.

As he handled them, he would expatiate on their unique, sovereign properties and qualities, how they had been discovered, how they were refined, and why they were so suitable for making filaments.

After the survey questions were developed they were refined by checking them with other academic experts.

At first, they were discussed with the experts in a workshop in Kathmandu and afterwards they were refined and finalized on site during another workshop with all relevant stakeholders such as the local villagers, operators and the community manager.

Now they were refining their technique.

Yet even as they were refining a machine's ability to process emotions, Matt was struggling to come to terms with his own.

Some of the turbines and pumps were so old and rusty that they resembled a set from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," but they were refining the sixty-nine thofsand barrels of crude a day that gosp 3R was providing.

Museum officials said they were refining the Met's admissions policies to coincide with next month's opening of a new outpost, the Met Breuer, at the former Madison Avenue home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

They are refined and intelligent, with considerable spirit and good disposition.