Sentence examples for off the drawing from inspiring English sources

No new nuclear plants have gotten off the drawing board since the relatively harmless Three Mile Island accident in 1979.

Most plants not already financed and under construction have been taken off the drawing board, he said.

JG Ballard's totemic tower-block tale finally makes it off the drawing board, with 1970s features and politics preserved.

Although the students' ideas are very unlikely ever to come off the drawing board, they said they had learned skills that were transferable to the real world.

Turkmenistan has expressed interest in exporting to the EU via a trans-Caspian pipeline and to India and Pakistan across Afghanistan, but the plans are yet to get off the drawing board.

Labour and charities welcomed the news, having described it as a giant "modern-day borstal", but said plans for the Leicestershire prison should never have got off the drawing board.

Browse any patent library, and you'll find countless gizmos that never made it off the drawing board.

Neither version made it off the drawing board.

The rocket's predecessors, including Magnum and Ares V, never made it off the drawing board.

Our study wouldn't have even got off the drawing board if we'd consulted with them.

"A lot of those that were on the drawing board are never going to get off the drawing board".