Example sentences of "not lend themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ( 1981 ) , who are able to alter the appearance of their homes , tend not to use modernist styles , which , in any case , do not lend themselves to such appropriation . |
2 | Some problems do not lend themselves to financial solutions . |
3 | In sparring , this is not such a good idea , since the techniques do not lend themselves to repetitive actions . |
4 | The terms deregulation and reregulation do not lend themselves to easy definition . |
5 | Unfortunately , other forms of assessment do not lend themselves to precise measures of test-retest reliability and the clinician may need to judge how far situational factors might have influenced the two assessments . |
6 | Some phenomena may simply not lend themselves to this kind of analysis . |
7 | The clay soils of many farms north of the Downs , for example , do not lend themselves to intensive arable farming , and few farms here ( or , for that matter , fields ) are far from woodlands so that they are not wholly dependent on such features as patches of scrub or hedges for the presence of many common farmland species . |
8 | Look at them long and hard with a fresh eye , question their presence and their use ; there are very few that do n't lend themselves to ingenious transformations . |