Example sentences of "[pron] lends [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crataegus , or hawthorn , makes a dense hedge which lends itself well to severe formal trimming |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Much of the debate on the ‘ internal market ’ appears to relate to elective surgery , which lends itself to ‘ packages ’ of care . |
| 4 | But , as used generally , a plate is a whole page illustration , coloured or otherwise , printed separately from the text and usually on a different type of paper which lends itself to glossy reproduction . |
| 5 | Its troopers wear black and white , a combination which lends itself to bold parti-coloured divisions , broad stripes , checks and diamonds . |
| 6 | In fact , as a result of this talk , I made the detour to Sydney , and quickly found that there are very many interesting locations and sites in this lovely , if expensive capital , which lends itself with peculiar delight to the persuasions of the camera . |
| 7 | What seemed to me most significant about the period I chose to study was that this was the moment of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , a transition which could best be observed and studied in drawing , which lends itself to greater experimentation . |
| 8 | Above : John and Veronica relax in the Chinese-green sitting room , which lends itself to a Christmas colour scheme of red and green Left : Tree lights and softly lit rooms give a festive glow to the Saunders ' Victorian terraced house in Heaton Moor , near Manchester |
| 9 | Nature study is another subject which lends itself readily to drawing and painting . |
| 10 | While the contextual method is well-suited to the exploration of the infinite subtlety and particularity of word-meanings , it is nonetheless more particularly the aim of this book to seek out and highlight anything which lends itself to generalisation , even of a limited sort , any tendency towards structure , system and recurrence , in the domain of word-meaning . |
| 11 | In fact , as a result of this talk , I made the detour to Sydney , and quickly found that there are very many interesting locations and sites in this lovely , if expensive capital , which lends itself with peculiar delights to the persuasions of the camera . |
| 12 | Geometry is not a subject which lends itself to such treatment . |
| 13 | Wallpapering your PC Next in our flying tour of these low cost packages comes Wallpaper Art Gallery for Windows , ( WAGWIN ) a title which ostensibly is single use , but which lends itself to one or two other purposes as well . |
| 14 | Her medium is gouache and watercolour which lends itself well to graphic reproduction . |
| 15 | Much of the debate on the ‘ Internal Market ’ appears to relate to elective surgery , which lends itself to ‘ packages ’ of care . |
| 16 | But the regional representatives will try to convince Mr Lang that Highland is a unique area , with a strong community identity which lends itself to region-wide treatment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It lends itself to me and I return to the theatre strangely renewed . |
| 21 | For example , it lends itself to a curve following the outline of the frame , a garland or a solid design . |
| 22 | Because the music is fairly hard , it lends itself to expressions of anger and bitterness and violent feelings rather than blissed-out loveydovey stuff . ’ |
| 23 | than a typical marker and it lends itself to softer and more characterful styles . |
| 24 | It lends itself quite suitably to the UK sporting scene which is populated by many black sportsmen growing up in broken homes , settling on the side of the mother and eventually seeing the father as an anathema , as did Repton heavyweight Ray Tabi : |
| 25 | One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments . |
| 26 | This is a good activity for small group project work as it lends itself to the pooling of information and sharing different elements of the task . |
| 27 | In particular it lends itself to analysis by a technique which has received limited application to extensive data for a British conurbation , namely the technique of trip chains . |
| 28 | So it 's a more complete er picture , of , of , of the personality , and of course it lends itself to this kind of historical portraiture . |
| 29 | The reason is simply that since its meaning is more abstract than that of see , hear , watch , etc. , it lends itself more easily to the inference-type sense than do the latter . |
| 30 | And and it lends itself to interpretive kind of approach rather than a politics sort of approach which tends to be . |