Example sentences of "does not [vb infin] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would not say that it was a part of anything around you — it does not attach itself to things or become a particular quality that they have . |
| 2 | Experience does not generate itself . |
| 3 | Just as Figure 3.1 draws attention to the proper use of science , so there is something extremely valuable and " right " about a relativist approach , provided it does not overstep itself and pretend it has the whole truth . |
| 4 | A generous interpretation aids both plaintiffs ( who may need to have service effected before proceeding to judgment ) and defendants ( who can benefit from knowledge of pending proceedings ) ; and the state of destination does not commit itself to recognise any judgment the plaintiff may ultimately obtain , for service facilitates proceedings and does not authenticate them . |
| 5 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 6 | It does not content itself with giving guidance in the form of general principles , codes or rules . |
| 7 | Therefore , the unwillingness of policemen to define their role in these terms does not show itself in a failure to perform these duties but as a judgement that it is ‘ really ’ the work of others . |
| 8 | The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap . |
| 9 | Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Rottweiler is basically a calm , confident and courageous dog with a self-assured aloofness that does not lend itself to immediate and indiscriminate friendships . |
| 12 | Article 3(4) areas — zone Defavorisee hors montagne — a zone comprised mainly of land that can not be cultivated and which does not lend itself to intensive production . |
| 13 | The dairy-type conformation does not lend itself readily to beef production and though steers will fatten they grow rather slowly . |
| 14 | But Sheila 's situation does not lend itself to action . |
| 15 | The evidence , then , does not lend itself to the ‘ Labour must abandon its class roots ’ thesis of electoral advancement . |
| 16 | It is difficult to judge the material of the shroud from its marble representation , for sculpture does not lend itself easily to such subtleties . |
| 17 | However the very nature of weaponry does not lend itself so readily to such analysis . |
| 18 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 19 | The system of health district administration does not lend itself to local initiatives , since the districts do not relate to any natural geographic catchment areas . |
| 20 | Moreover , ‘ unknown ’ heroin use does not lend itself to the more usual sampling procedures such as random sampling , saturation sampling and dense sampling . |
| 21 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Such a position does not lend itself to anthropological analysis , since one of the objectives of the discipline is to learn something of value from the practices of the people one is studying . |
| 24 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Information on employees may exist on a company 's mini or mainframe computer but is stored in a form not usually usable or accessible by the personnel department , and mainframe information does not lend itself to interrogation on a real time basis . |
| 27 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 28 | Similarly , a new method or process of manufacture which does not lend itself to detailed analysis by competitors will probably remain immune from imitation by rivals precisely because the employer has avoided the mandatory public disclosure involved in proceeding with a patent application . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , because of their omission from citation , the role of such ephemeral , non-rigorous , or incomplete data in the communication process in geology does not lend itself to citation analysis . |
| 30 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |