Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] itself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of full-back Robertson would leave Rangers short in that department but his hamstring injury does not lend itself to the taking of risks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In accordance , however , with the normal practice , the court considered the whole case and did not confine itself to the objections in point of form to the surrejoinder . |
| 5 | The actual agenda now established by the Americans and their subsidiaries , does not direct itself to the issues either Enzensberger or Halliday identify . |
| 6 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
| 7 | ( Chris Haskins , of Northern Foods , points out that Britain has not fed itself since the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 . ) |
| 8 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
| 9 | But German Romanticism could not sustain itself against the blandishments of urban existence , and as the nineteenth century progressed the movement lapsed into sentiment and kitsch — the absolute artistic opportunism that insisted on ‘ moving ’ people emotionally . |
| 10 | Ollero asserts that TransTools has not involved itself in the price war . |
| 11 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 12 | The lasting pattern of this world-market agriculture did not establish itself until the period of the imperialist world economy of 1870–1930 . |
| 13 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 14 | Moreover , it allows us to adjudicate on a matter with which the bible does not concern itself ( as it may be said not to concern itself with the question of the liberation of women ) . |
| 15 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 16 | This view did not commend itself to the pope . |
| 17 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
| 18 | The population census does not start from sociological theory and does not concern itself with the formulation of explicit hypotheses . |
| 19 | In effect this meant accepting that the sociology of knowledge must not concern itself with the truth of knowledge being studied but analyse the ‘ norms of thinking ’ for the participants under study : |
| 20 | Pipeline business is the stuff that you 've sent to head office , been put on the shelf , and has n't issued yet , because of maybe medical in the writing , or there 's complications with it , you know , it 's sat on the shelf , but it has n't actually , the policy has n't wanged itself to the client . |
| 21 | In this sense , separatism does n't address itself to the business of making life better for all women , and is then restricted in large part to acting as a channel for the energy of women once they have become embittered by heterosexism . |