Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pointed out that the modular nature of the new advanced provision lends itself to students choosing groups of units which , although having vocational relevance for the individual or a particular employer , do not satisfy the criteria for an existing HNC or HND . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A semantic net lends itself to graphic display , and its meaning tends to be intuitively , if not formally , clear . |
| 4 | There was a lot of closed , closed questions , remember that , the actual page lends itself to it er well |
| 5 | Much of the overall improvement owes itself to improving fertilizer prices and better productivity . |
| 6 | What we see here is some of the work which backs up her important argument ( published elsewhere ) that the popular and fragmented nature of postmodern culture yields itself to a more positive interpretation than most of the pessimistic ( and male ) theorists of postmodernism would have us believe . |
| 7 | But later in life Augustine declared : ‘ He therefore who refuses to obey the imperial laws , when made against the truth of God acquires a great reward , he who refuses to obey when they are made for the support of the divine truth exposes himself to most grievous punishment . ’ |
| 8 | And yet she was aware of something lovely somewhere , something that was gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained : she supposed her therapist would say that this unrealistic shard of broken vision dated back to her infancy , when the human animal believes itself to be omnipotent , immortal and an integral part of all that is . |
| 9 | … the elderly woman adapts herself to her stage better than her husband . |
| 10 | The muscular frame lends itself to ‘ strength ’ sports and is often defined as the ‘ pear shape ’ because of the wide hips . |
| 11 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In this context , elegant variation lends itself to irony . |
| 14 | Brian Nicholson , chairman of the board , said : ‘ Our geographical location lends itself to strong links with the European arts infrastructure and I am confident that we will develop exciting initiatives in all areas of activity . ’ |
| 15 | As a result , the corresponding differences between these societies are not underlined , and this ahistorical representation lends itself to a simplification of both subject and object . |
| 16 | Usually , the larval stage confines itself to relatively small mammals such as mice , and it is the nymph and adult forms which go for humans , though usually only accidentally . |
| 17 | Particular interest attaches itself to the distribution of the elderly population , because of its implications for the provision of retirement accommodation and social services . |
| 18 | The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated . |
| 19 | His new work attaches itself to the ready-made tradition , taking the theme of laziness into ‘ a la recherche du temps perdu ’ . |
| 20 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 21 | Vaulting is made in bays and the semi-circular arch lends itself to a square bay . |