Sentence examples for were conceived on from inspiring English sources

Ten per cent of Europeans were conceived on an Ikea bed - surely one good reason to visit the design hubs of northern Europe.

Most of Archigram's projects were conceived on an urban scale.

Both Megamind and Metro Man were conceived on a dying planet and simultaneously sent to Earth.

Ted (technology, entertainment and design) talks were conceived on the notion that radical ideas can change the world.

A Conservative MP has said budget plans to cap tax relief for charitable donations were conceived "on the back of an envelope" and claims ministers are now preparing the ground for a rethink to avoid hurting the voluntary sector.

Many aspects of the complex were conceived on Classical models; for example, the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian arrangement of orders for the three-level lower terrace echoed the Colosseum's elevation, and the entire terraced complex was reminiscent of imperial palaces on the hills of ancient Rome.

"Rachel was conceived on a Windjammer," Margie Weiss told me one night, sifting through photographs of her tropical honeymoon with Irv Hoffman on a sailboat in the Caribbean.

Re your editorial (Free time, 20 July), my father, born into a working family in Sheffield before the first world war, always thought he was conceived on a Sunday afternoon (his dad's one day a week off).

Rafael Viñoly, who (together with SmithGroup) designed the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building, in San Francisco, is one of those architects whose work seems to have been conceived on the back of an envelope.

Wagner's "Ring Cycle" was conceived on a monumental scale.

This production is conceived on a large scale.