Example sentences of "[noun sg] lends [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated . |
| 2 | This tie-breaker lends itself even more than the general format of the competition to focusing attention on the product in hand . |
| 3 | Critical comments are frequently made in the press stating or implying that Swiss law lends itself particularly well to illegal trafficking in works of stolen art . |
| 4 | Renshaw considers the extent to which case management lends itself to care planning and to the principles of normalization . |
| 5 | Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way . |
| 6 | The word consultant lends itself to a very wide interpretation and many food service operators , and particularly hotel operators , believe they are all capable of being food service consultants . |
| 7 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 8 | You do n't have to make contact with the ground on which the ball sits , and if the ball does lie in any little depression , an old divot hole or a slightly poor lie , the putter lends itself to sending the ball bobbling on its way . |
| 9 | With a pink carpet and green walls , the room lends itself to a Christmas colour theme of red and green . |
| 10 | The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades . |
| 11 | Drama lends itself to becoming part of topic work because : |
| 12 | Like many areas of sociology , the sociology of punishment lends itself to ( often radically ) differing approaches which provide rival explanations of penality . |
| 13 | What matters is not whether the human psyche is in itself constructed in grammatical terms ( as Noam Chomsky has suggested ) , but that social behaviour lends itself to analysis in broadly linguistic terms . |
| 14 | H. Granville-Barker , reviewing Chambers 's work , recognizes both the limitations of " science " ( " no art lends itself wholly to scientific methods of criticism and research " ) and the " magnanimity of true learning " which " scorns special pleading , comes charily to conclusions , opens every path by which the reader may reach his own . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The assessment of this module lends itself readily to an integrated assignment where evidence may be generated which is appropriate for more than one outcome . |
| 17 | Christmas is a natural time for us to indulge ourselves , free from the constraints of commissioning clients , and as calligraphy lends itself admirably to the creation of ephemera such as greetings cards , most of us have a large collection of those many of our distinguished colleagues . |
| 18 | There was a lot of closed , closed questions , remember that , the actual page lends itself to it er well |
| 19 | Whereas writing has usually been an insular process , word-processing lends itself more easily to a collaborative approach , offering exciting opportunities to share and extend ideas . |
| 20 | The muscular frame lends itself to ‘ strength ’ sports and is often defined as the ‘ pear shape ’ because of the wide hips . |
| 21 | Whereas wildlife conservation lends itself to a science-based approach , this is not really possible for landscape conservation , or the improvement of public access to the countryside . |
| 22 | The area lends itself to circular tour , so you do n't have to retrace your steps . |
| 23 | More than most things , lung area lends itself to gradual , step-by-step change , all the way from 0 square yards up to 70 square yards . |
| 24 | In this context , elegant variation lends itself to irony . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | For instance , Wilkinson ( 1990 : 81 ) suggests that ‘ information which has been highlighted by being fronted in the Dutch clause lends itself to a translation in English using an IT cleft ’ , but notes that trainee translators working from Dutch into English fail to make use of predicated and identifying themes in their English translations . |
| 28 | The physicality of the artefact lends itself to the work of praxis — that is , cultural construction through action rather than just conceptualization . |
| 29 | MicroPROLOG lends itself particularly well to the construction of databases which can then be interrogated in a number of different ways . |
| 30 | If your children have left home and you have more space than you need , you could consider taking in lodgers , either as paying guests or , if your property lends itself to the creation of a separate flatlet , in a tenancy capacity . |