Example sentences of "model [pn reflx] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Hermsprong ( 1796 ) , one of the first political novels , whose eponymous hero models himself on the noble savage , confines itself to great houses or to those that emulate them , while the savage himself , in true romance tradition , turns out to be an aristocrat , and the rightful heir to his wicked uncle 's estate . |
| 2 | Plenty of singers , wisely or otherwise , have modelled themselves on the heroes and villains of great literature . |
| 3 | The best we can do is raise our own children differently ( a project that will fail , ironically , to the extent that children model themselves on the unreconstructed adults they encounter ! ) |
| 4 | There is nothing clear-cut or standardised about it ; but one may envisage ( and sometimes see quite clearly in real life ) the difference in effect between that of divorce when the child is still at the stage of total reliance on the mother , perhaps with fierce submerged conflict with the male parent , and that taking place when the boy is at the age of modelling himself on the father and establishing male identity through him . |
| 5 | That application can not simply model itself on the procedures of empirical research , however , since it has to operate within contexts which preclude it . |
| 6 | ‘ You modelling yourself on the Israelis ? ’ |