Sentence examples for copying too closely from inspiring English sources
In Dickens's novel there are just five, but as his friend and biographer John Forster put it: "with the reserves always necessary in copying nature not to overstep her modesty by copying too closely, he makes the number that appalled little Pip not more than half the reality". No reader would believe thirteen.
Be careful about copying too closely; sometimes people find out and don't like that you use their name.
Yet, they also cautioned against attempts to copy Silicon Valley too closely.
In one of these the Danish artist Johan Christian Dahl — wanting to avoid copying his friend too closely — has replaced the distant harbor view in Friedrich's drawings with a glistening Prussian palace that was actually several miles upriver.
No one knows if Dell will ever use the threat of a patent infringement suit to block a potential direct-sales rival, such as Compaq, from copying its system too closely; the company says its plans in this area are confidential.
Note that this is not a typical trademark lawsuit, where a trademark owner sues a competitor for copying its trademark too closely.
Still, size matters, and there are strong arguments against copying the big plans too closely.
It cannot copy the west staircase too closely, according to Federal guidelines, as it might confuse observers into thinking that it was an original element.
(Don't examine the ingredients too closely).
