Example sentences of "model on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modelled on similar organizations in Argentina and Central America , it consists mainly of mothers whose husbands , sons and daughters have ‘ disappeared ’ or are known to have been murdered by the government or the JVP . |
| 2 | ( ‘ Krantz ’ is modelled on Rosengarten in The Favourite Game , though highly fictionalised . ) |
| 3 | Greenaway rejects the conventional grammar of film , its reaction shots and implied points of view , but he replaces it not with his own idiom but with his slide library , though a film modelled on an art-historical lecture has no greater intrinsic claim to quality than one modelled on a promotional video , a newsreel or a travel brochure . |
| 4 | Greenaway rejects the conventional grammar of film , its reaction shots and implied points of view , but he replaces it not with his own idiom but with his slide library , though a film modelled on an art-historical lecture has no greater intrinsic claim to quality than one modelled on a promotional video , a newsreel or a travel brochure . |
| 5 | The first half , modelled on the career of Peter Rachman , is a sequence of cartoon-strip-like scenes chronicling Singer 's rise from homeless , oppressed refugee to exploitative property landlord . |
| 6 | In answering these calls , the RUC 's section police are modelled on their British counterparts , where the emphasis is placed on rapid response to logged calls . |
| 7 | Satellite television stations under the control of press barons and modelled on the tabloid press may make inaction even more indefensible . |
| 8 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 9 | Foreign organizers soon discovered that the system seemed to be modelled on Trotsky 's military commissars . |
| 10 | Hawksmoor had been working for Wren since he was 18 and Castle Howard was very probably modelled on Wren 's proposed plan for Hampton Court ( which never got beyond the drawing board ) . |
| 11 | The proposed deal would be modelled on a settlement this year for 130,000 NHS administrative and clerical staff . |
| 12 | The proposed deal would be modelled on a settlement this year for 130,000 NHS administrative and clerical staff . |
| 13 | The idea would be modelled on a settlement this year for 130,000 NHS administrative and clerical staff . |
| 14 | The first is whether the union will be almost exclusively monetary , with the EC central banking system being closely modelled on the narrow counter-inflationary objectives of the largely non-accountable Bundesbank , and with other economic objectives left exclusively in national hands . |
| 15 | Squire Western is said to be modelled on Philip Bennet , and the heroine of Tom Jones on his daughter Ann . |
| 16 | Doak also understands body language to be a key to communicating with cetaceans , and he experimented with special wetsuits that were modelled on the dolphin body , black above and white below , with both legs enclosed in a sheath terminating in a tailfin or jetfins . |
| 17 | He was born in Barbados on 1 August 1924 into a middle-class family , at a time when class boundaries on the island , having been modelled on the English system , were very rigid . |
| 18 | ECCENTRIC : wander through reconstructed rooms modelled on Tintin cartoons at the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée , 20 Rue des Sables , a restored art-nouveau department store that has become Brussels 's best-loved museum . |
| 19 | This rule seemed to be modelled on the proportionality requirement in self-defence , and was criticized as quite unsuitable for cases of provocation , where loss of self-control intervenes between the provocation and the retaliation . |
| 20 | In January 1968 , Farrell and the other militant civil rights activists of People 's Democracy started a march from Belfast to Londonderry , modelled on the famous American civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery . |
| 21 | Its internal organization , hierarchies , and values struck Melvyn Bragg , who joined the Corporation from Oxford in 1961 , as being modelled on the public school system : |
| 22 | In a style modelled on the Platonic dialogues , Justin here interpreted Old Testament prophecies which he saw fulfilled in Jesus and in the present life of the church , already spreading throughout the known world . |
| 23 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 24 | This hairstyle is modelled on that of actors and musicians , and is derived from that on statues of Apollo as the lyre-player . |
| 25 | There is no a priori reason why she should have been modelled on the warlike goddess Minerva ( or Roma ) ; indeed , on an Italian medal made in 1564 , Anglia ( as she then was , before the unification of the kingdoms ) appears as a simple female figure dressed in the ordinary clothes of daily life . |
| 26 | At Stirling , he created the so-called palace block , with exteriors modelled on French palace architecture like those of Falkland and adorned with statues ranging from dignified sculpture to the grotesque — the latter seen in the splendid representation of the king himself . |
| 27 | As we shall see , some argue that while the law , modelled on the recommendations of the Warnock Committee , establishes a range of parental rights and duties , parental involvement in practice is hindered by a number of factors . |
| 28 | It is a fourteenth-century gilded copper work modelled on a design by Jacopino da Tradate . |
| 29 | The ‘ Maison de l'Empereur ’ was modelled on that of Napoleon I , which in itself had recreated certain features of the pre-Revolutionary court . |
| 30 | It begins as a mock-documentary on Simon Rodia ( architect of the Watts towers ) and then shifts through stories-within-stories , digressions , verbal improvisations ( explicitly modelled on jazz ) , and numerous references to the practicalities of narrating . |