Example sentences of "does [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The self-contained social circle of most farmers , commented upon in Chapter 3 , does not particularly lend itself to such empathy , but farmers will ignore the aspirations of the other 97 per cent of the population at their peril — and so , for that matter , will conservationists .
2 It does not immediately lend itself to action on the part of the adviser .
3 Code switching in this community therefore does not immediately lend itself to an account based on a notion of " we " and " they " : the " we " and " they " psychology must first be shown to exist .
4 In other words , whilst appearing to criticize the antisemitism of Streicher and The Protocols , the author does not wholly distance himself from the traditions of antisemitism .
5 The government does not merely confine itself to setting the ‘ rules of the game ’ , but is in a sense a participant in industrial relations to the extent that it chooses to intervene .
6 If the object-glass of a refractor or the mirror of a reflector is of poor quality , the images will also be poor — and a bad telescope does not always betray itself at a glance .
7 But Watson does not only see himself as publicity agent for his cause .
8 However there was a problem which the cost-push explanation of inflation found impossible to surmount , namely , that it does not readily lend itself to rigorous empirical verification .
9 At the lac wild-type promoter , RNA polymerase does not correctly position itself in the absence of CRP [ 14,42 ] .
10 I agree that where we 're living at the moment does n't exactly lend itself to being a family home .
11 It can pretend it is using colour film from 50 to 400 ASA , which will keep most happy snappers occupied , but does n't really lend itself to low-light photography or sports .
12 Lesley does n't really judge herself as a musician anyway , but was quite happy to be judged as woman first because she is ‘ immensely proud ’ of her gender .
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