Sentence examples for block draws on from inspiring English sources

Attack the Block draws on the classic science-fiction model such as Independence Day and the siege drama – Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 – but there's also something very innocent and English here, something reminiscent of the 1947 Ealing comedy Hue and Cry.

(Steve Rose) We said: "Attack the Block draws on the classic science-fiction model such as Independence Day and the siege drama – Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 – but there's also something very innocent and English here, reminiscent of the 1947 Ealing comedy Hue and Cry… in his early comedy career, Cornish made his name by pastiching and taking the mickey out of Hollywood movies.

paste those alphabets into the blocks drawn on the white paper.

Paste those letters into the blocks drawn on the white paper.

The young Murillo would have encountered ornate frames like this in important books from northern Europe, and his self-portrait inside a marble block draws not only on traditions of antiquity but on the more contemporary practice of printmaking.

Block was forced to draw on the credit lines because of a tumultuous commercial paper market.

Osborne said earlier that he would block any EU move to draw on an emergency fund containing British money for the new bailout programme.

The placing of Anschutz Entertainment on the auction block drew a crop of potential bidders.

Hierarchical blocks are normally used for top-down designs, where the block is drawn on the top-level schematic and associated signal pins are added.

In the early evening a comedy block will draw on original programming as well as sitcoms from the Carsey-Werner library as they become available.

In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America.