Example sentences of "lends [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 Salim 's outlook incorporates a version of that of his friend Indar , who teaches in the polytechnic for a while , and lends himself to the philanthropic white-liberal cultivation of the African experience , where some of the best comedy in the book is located .
2 He appears progressive in advocating an income tax as the basis or an arrangement by which people might give according to their means and take according to their need , and sees this in terms of the possibilities of socialism , but at the same time he lends himself to a strong laissez-faire interpretation highly restrictive of the involvement of the state ( 1978 : 315–18 ) .
3 As a man , he lends himself to a story as haunting as any in cricket .
4 Designed as a demonstration of bi-partite segregation between public and saloon , it lends itself poorly to unification , and the restorable public bar would have been lost in the process .
5 Crataegus , or hawthorn , makes a dense hedge which lends itself well to severe formal trimming
6 C's attraction is that it lends itself to structured programming more readily than assembly language programming and it is within a C language shall that the assembly language modules should be inserted .
7 In fact , the idea lends itself to fabrication as a single IC- clock distribution is not much of a problem , because of the insensitivity to DC level , and transistor count is low , because each of the switches is formed by a single igfet , rather than , for instance , several mesfets .
8 The ethos of the force therefore lends itself to gender differences in police work , and so popular are beliefs about the different capabilities of policemen and women , that some policemen shy away from handling these sorts of cases on the view that they are less able than women colleagues , and many policewomen adopt these notions as self-typifications .
9 Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other .
10 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 .
11 This lends itself to excessive speculation in Hollywood .
12 His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink .
13 In general , landfarming lends itself to volatilisation of organic compounds ; in fact , that is often the primary means of removal .
14 Of the two , carbon — which has the smaller atoms — is by far the more versatile : it lends itself much more easily than silicon does to the creation of intricate molecular shapes .
15 Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way .
16 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 .
17 A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house .
18 The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer .
19 Brian Nicholson , chairman of the board , said : ‘ Our geographical location lends itself to strong links with the European arts infrastructure and I am confident that we will develop exciting initiatives in all areas of activity . ’
20 Much of the debate on the ‘ internal market ’ appears to relate to elective surgery , which lends itself to ‘ packages ’ of care .
21 This phenomenon again suggests that the interpretation of a pronoun is influenced by a representation of superficial aspects of the preceding text It also lends itself to experimental study .
22 The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades .
23 Edward 's ‘ forthright ’ , breathy style lends itself naturally to blues ( Mississippi Lad or I 'm not your fool any more , also featuring Waits on vocals , and the soft and low Ballad for a Bronze Beauty ) , but less well to the rest of the album , parts of which also have an oddly out of character Brazilian flavour .
24 As Seigel puts it in Computing Law — ‘ information is power over decision , power over capital , power over individuals , power over organisation , power over adversaries and power over the past , present and future , and [ that ] power lends itself to any use and abuse ’ .
25 It is also likely to bring even the larger authorities face to face with the problem of staff mobility — where the absence of one or two people attending an external course may be relatively easily absorbed ( except in smaller authorities ) , internal training is uneconomic for one or two people — and ideally , lends itself to a continuous programme .
26 The surrounding natural beauty of the region lends itself to every kind of outdoor activity .
27 Sending such digital signals lends itself well to using light along optical fibres rather than electrical signals along copper wires .
28 The fingerboard is wide and again lends itself well to rock styles , although if you 're into slinging guitars around your knees and just going for the chords there 's plenty of meat to get hold of .
29 It lends itself to me and I return to the theatre strangely renewed .
30 CD-Rom , on the other hand , lends itself to large general reference works such as encyclopaedias .
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