Sentence examples for was copied across from inspiring English sources

His grotto was built around a natural spring as a grand gesture and was copied across the fashionable estates of Britain, but it was also a place of tranquillity and mystery.

The temple building was copied across the Roman empire as the focal point of new settlements or of old enemy cities that were embracing the Roman way of life.

Edith Head's strapless party dress for Elizabeth Taylor in A Place In The Sun (1951) was copied across the world; Clark Gable's bare-chested look in It Happened One Night (1934) resulted in a 30% drop in American sales of men's vests.

I would expect this to be copied across the country, when its results start to show.

His signature move, the long arm, is copied across the N.F.L.

"The Green Investment Bank was a world first, and it is a sign of its success that the idea is being copied across the world.

This pragmatic and classically Dutch notion is now being copied across Europe: Toulouse, Zurich, Paris as well as several other Dutch cities have night mayors too.

Spain's housing crisis has been so destructive that the PAH's use of community self-organisation and support, and direct action to block evictions, has been copied across the world.