Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] [pn reflx] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 2 | Pipeline business is the stuff that you 've sent to head office , been put on the shelf , and has n't issued yet , because of maybe medical in the writing , or there 's complications with it , you know , it 's sat on the shelf , but it has n't actually , the policy has n't wanged itself to the client . |
| 3 | Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The evidence , then , does not lend itself to the ‘ Labour must abandon its class roots ’ thesis of electoral advancement . |
| 6 | Moreover , ‘ unknown ’ heroin use does not lend itself to the more usual sampling procedures such as random sampling , saturation sampling and dense sampling . |
| 7 | It does not lend itself to the earlier analysis of symbolism which identified distinct abstract signifiers and concrete signifieds , since it simultaneously operates at both levels . |
| 8 | A difficulty is that Mercier 's brushwork , and an essential freedom in his style , does not lend itself to the same kind of minute scrutiny that could be applied to a painter like Zoffany . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The actual agenda now established by the Americans and their subsidiaries , does not direct itself to the issues either Enzensberger or Halliday identify . |
| 11 | ‘ The pattern of study leave block release — does n't lend itself to the smaller offices or indeed to business organisations . |
| 12 | In this sense , separatism does n't address itself to the business of making life better for all women , and is then restricted in large part to acting as a channel for the energy of women once they have become embittered by heterosexism . |