Example sentences of "not [verb] itself [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The loss of full-back Robertson would leave Rangers short in that department but his hamstring injury does not lend itself to the taking of risks . |
2 | There is some disagreement about the size of the informal proletariat , which is not surprising given that its informal nature does not lend itself to the gathering of statistic , but most commentators see it representing about 40–60 per cent of the economically active population . |
3 | And , like mine , it did not lend itself to the sort of conclusion Berkeley wanted to draw , to the effect that we are not justified in calling material things hot and cold . |
4 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
5 | ( Chris Haskins , of Northern Foods , points out that Britain has not fed itself since the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 . ) |
6 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
7 | Ollero asserts that TransTools has not involved itself in the price war . |
8 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
9 | The lasting pattern of this world-market agriculture did not establish itself until the period of the imperialist world economy of 1870–1930 . |
10 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
11 | Moreover , it allows us to adjudicate on a matter with which the bible does not concern itself ( as it may be said not to concern itself with the question of the liberation of women ) . |
12 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
13 | This view did not commend itself to the pope . |
14 | The population census does not start from sociological theory and does not concern itself with the formulation of explicit hypotheses . |
15 | In effect this meant accepting that the sociology of knowledge must not concern itself with the truth of knowledge being studied but analyse the ‘ norms of thinking ’ for the participants under study : |