Example sentences of "lend [pn reflx] to " in BNC.

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1 Still , I could n't help responding , at least in spirit , to the orgy of general joy as we docked at Lisbon ; and even John stiffly lent himself to various aromatic embraces .
2 He would lend himself to a deluge ; she would imagine water gushing into a basin .
3 In any case they were sitting upstairs in Willi 's little loggia ( the gallery of the Spa Rooms had not lent itself to conversion into boxes , but parts of the curved balcony had been sectioned off with wrought-iron grills into small loggias for distinguished guests ) .
4 I would n't have lent myself to any schemes like that .
5 The questions posed by Feminist , Marxist , Structuralist and Post-Structuralist criticism have not lent themselves to computer-based responses . ’
6 And those long gentle lines of the dip-slope of the Cotswolds , those misty uplands of the sheep-grey oolite , how they have lent themselves to the villainous requirements of the new age !
7 Pastiche is a dualistic activity , and it is an activity which can lend itself to the expression of paranoid feelings and unacted desires .
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 Now the scholars amongst you will quickly realise that staying in a hotel near Balquhidder would lend itself to terms of geographic convenience to tackling Ben More , Ben Vorlich or even Ben Lawers .
13 But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining .
14 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 .
15 In Snowdonia , Snowdon itself could lend itself to such management as could the Glyder and Tryfan mountain block .
16 In Snowdonia , Snowdon itself could lend itself to such management as could the Glyder and Tryfan mountain block .
17 It does not immediately lend itself to action on the part of the adviser .
18 But Sheila 's situation does not lend itself to action .
19 It is a system that would lend itself to any sizeable district general hospital .
20 What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation .
21 The evidence , then , does not lend itself to the ‘ Labour must abandon its class roots ’ thesis of electoral advancement .
22 ‘ The pattern of study leave block release — does n't lend itself to the smaller offices or indeed to business organisations .
23 I agree that where we 're living at the moment does n't exactly lend itself to being a family home .
24 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 .
25 And , like mine , it did not lend itself to the sort of conclusion Berkeley wanted to draw , to the effect that we are not justified in calling material things hot and cold .
26 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 .
27 Consider the size , structure and special features of the hotel and what special type of event it could lend itself to , e.g. mediaeval banquets etc .
28 We are invited by the story-teller to believe that the part-random , part-intended day-to-day course of life would lend itself to discipline , with a beginning , a middle and an end .
29 Moreover , ‘ unknown ’ heroin use does not lend itself to the more usual sampling procedures such as random sampling , saturation sampling and dense sampling .
30 Finally , the information found may lend itself to various forms of presentation , ranging from fact sheets to some kind of argument for or against various issues .
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