Sentence examples for were much adapted from inspiring English sources

Menander's works were much adapted by the Roman writers Plautus and Terence, and through them he influenced the development of European comedy from the Renaissance.

They were partly based on previous criteria, such as the Beers' and McLeod's criteria, but were much adapted to French drug formulary and guidelines.

The original story - a guide to self-reliance - has been much adapted over the years.

The story began life as a Heinrich Mann novel in 1905, was made into a legendary 1930 movie starring Marlene Dietrich, and has been much adapted since.

Conversely, in harsh deserts, arido-active C3 shrubs with morphological adaptations such as xeromorphic leaves and particularly deeply reaching root systems are much better adapted than CAM species.

Indeed, art is much less adapted to the telling of a story or the representation of the world than it is to the presentation of colours, sounds, and other items in the art medium simply for their own sake.

But you are seeing new people enter the workforce that are much more adapted to this technology, from the Facebook generation or the YouTube generation.

In other words, the toaster oven wasn't just an upgraded toaster, it was an entirely different species of appliance, a machine that was much better adapted to modern living and far more useful than anything that had come before it.

E. coli O157 H7 infection of humans is incidental and quite ephemeral; these human enteric pathogens are much better adapted to the ruminant gut.

We think he's very much adapted to the Premier League," Mourinho said.

A hastily-assembled squad suffered several heavy defeats early on, but performances and results in the second half of the campaign were much improved as the Vikings adapted to playing at a higher level.