Sentence examples for idea to copy from inspiring English sources

"It's an old-fashioned idea to copy the old masters in the art museum," he said.

This is just an idea to copy an American Girl's bistro set.

She did the original drawings and advised us from the start, and gave me hope by taking me to visit other refurbished houses, where I gratefully picked up ideas to copy.

Nasir and crew scrutinize the web daily, painstakingly downloading videos, struggling with Afghanistan's snail-pace bandwidth, to find models and ideas to copy for their hours of practice.

In the external world it is widely understood that when sending Sarah Palin an e-mail "the best idea is to copy Todd on it," according to Malek.

That compares well to London, where recorded street robberies have almost doubled in ten years.Initially, the idea was to copy the "zero tolerance" approach of New York's former mayor Rudolph Giuliani and William Bratton, the police commissioner from 1994 to 1996.

"The idea was to copy a colonial book of a Belgian administrator working in the jungle or in a distant office in Belgium, designing the plan for a Belgian utopia in Central Africa," de Keyzer explained.

The original idea was to copy Friendster but let users create any online persona they chose (Friendster was deleting fake profiles as fast as they could).

The idea was to copy Facebook's platform so that developers wouldn't have to relearn a new one and rebuild their applications (Bebo's platform still requires tweaks to port an application over from Facebook, however).

For both of those reasons, then – as they make the final call for my flight – I figure it might be a cynically fun idea to simply copy and paste what I wrote last year, with just a couple of adjustments [marked by brackets] to bring it up to date.

Americans make very good commercial films but the idea is not to copy them".