Example sentences of "[noun] lends [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way . |
| 2 | The word consultant lends itself to a very wide interpretation and many food service operators , and particularly hotel operators , believe they are all capable of being food service consultants . |
| 3 | With a pink carpet and green walls , the room lends itself to a Christmas colour theme of red and green . |
| 4 | Metal lends itself to a wider range of decorative techniques than most other materials because of its physical properties , particularly its ductility , which allows it to be twisted into wire or inlaid with other metals and even other materials such as gemstones . |
| 5 | Whereas wildlife conservation lends itself to a science-based approach , this is not really possible for landscape conservation , or the improvement of public access to the countryside . |
| 6 | For instance , Wilkinson ( 1990 : 81 ) suggests that ‘ information which has been highlighted by being fronted in the Dutch clause lends itself to a translation in English using an IT cleft ’ , but notes that trainee translators working from Dutch into English fail to make use of predicated and identifying themes in their English translations . |
| 7 | The physicality of the artefact lends itself to the work of praxis — that is , cultural construction through action rather than just conceptualization . |
| 8 | If your children have left home and you have more space than you need , you could consider taking in lodgers , either as paying guests or , if your property lends itself to the creation of a separate flatlet , in a tenancy capacity . |
| 9 | The package with its design attributes lends itself to the production of manuals and directories |
| 10 | This simply means that the normal 8-hour duty shift is split ; for example , 4 hours on duty , 2 hours off duty , then 4 hours on duty , or 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening , or whatever combination lends itself to the efficient running of the hotel . |
| 11 | Vaulting is made in bays and the semi-circular arch lends itself to a square bay . |
| 12 | This fatalism lends itself to the infamous Burmese bureaucracy , partly because bureaucracy looks like efficiency , partly because bureaucracy fits so neatly into the unchanging Buddhist worldview . |
| 13 | The surrounding natural beauty of the region lends itself to every kind of outdoor activity . |
| 14 | As a result , the corresponding differences between these societies are not underlined , and this ahistorical representation lends itself to a simplification of both subject and object . |