Example sentences of "lend itself [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 Pastiche is a dualistic activity , and it is an activity which can lend itself to the expression of paranoid feelings and unacted desires .
3 The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap .
4 Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining .
9 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 .
10 In Snowdonia , Snowdon itself could lend itself to such management as could the Glyder and Tryfan mountain block .
11 In Snowdonia , Snowdon itself could lend itself to such management as could the Glyder and Tryfan mountain block .
12 It does not immediately lend itself to action on the part of the adviser .
13 But Sheila 's situation does not lend itself to action .
14 It is a system that would lend itself to any sizeable district general hospital .
15 What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation .
16 The evidence , then , does not lend itself to the ‘ Labour must abandon its class roots ’ thesis of electoral advancement .
17 ‘ The pattern of study leave block release — does n't lend itself to the smaller offices or indeed to business organisations .
18 I agree that where we 're living at the moment does n't exactly lend itself to being a family home .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Moreover , ‘ unknown ’ heroin use does not lend itself to the more usual sampling procedures such as random sampling , saturation sampling and dense sampling .
25 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 .
26 This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) .
27 It does not lend itself to the earlier analysis of symbolism which identified distinct abstract signifiers and concrete signifieds , since it simultaneously operates at both levels .
28 Such a position does not lend itself to anthropological analysis , since one of the objectives of the discipline is to learn something of value from the practices of the people one is studying .
29 The self-contained social circle of most farmers , commented upon in Chapter 3 , does not particularly lend itself to such empathy , but farmers will ignore the aspirations of the other 97 per cent of the population at their peril — and so , for that matter , will conservationists .
30 A difficulty is that Mercier 's brushwork , and an essential freedom in his style , does not lend itself to the same kind of minute scrutiny that could be applied to a painter like Zoffany .
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