Example sentences of "[noun] model [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal ritual was closely associated with the history of Osiris , the divine prototype on whom the pharaohs modelled themselves by re-enacting his traditional deeds . |
| 2 | These values and this separation of course react back on to design practice itself ; after all practice models itself on conceptions of what , theoretically , it is . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Christians modelled themselves on Christ . |
| 5 | If the C of E models itself on Parliament , the Methodists model themselves on a school prize-giving . |
| 6 | If the C of E models itself on Parliament , the Methodists model themselves on a school prize-giving . |
| 7 | For men to model themselves on Ulysses rather than Hercules . |
| 8 | 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 ! ) |
| 9 | Thomas Becket modelled himself on Anselm — in his exile , his inflexibility , his austerities . |
| 10 | Dean was another rebel , no doubt modelling himself on his two idols . |
| 11 | Coburn 's script stated that Susan came from the forty-ninth century : too precise a reference for a series modelling itself on mystery . |