Example sentences of "lends [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim 's outlook incorporates a version of that of his friend Indar , who teaches in the polytechnic for a while , and lends himself to the philanthropic white-liberal cultivation of the African experience , where some of the best comedy in the book is located . |
| 2 | He appears progressive in advocating an income tax as the basis or an arrangement by which people might give according to their means and take according to their need , and sees this in terms of the possibilities of socialism , but at the same time he lends himself to a strong laissez-faire interpretation highly restrictive of the involvement of the state ( 1978 : 315–18 ) . |
| 3 | As a man , he lends himself to a story as haunting as any in cricket . |
| 4 | C's attraction is that it lends itself to structured programming more readily than assembly language programming and it is within a C language shall that the assembly language modules should be inserted . |
| 5 | In fact , the idea lends itself to fabrication as a single IC- clock distribution is not much of a problem , because of the insensitivity to DC level , and transistor count is low , because each of the switches is formed by a single igfet , rather than , for instance , several mesfets . |
| 6 | The ethos of the force therefore lends itself to gender differences in police work , and so popular are beliefs about the different capabilities of policemen and women , that some policemen shy away from handling these sorts of cases on the view that they are less able than women colleagues , and many policewomen adopt these notions as self-typifications . |
| 7 | Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This lends itself to excessive speculation in Hollywood . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In general , landfarming lends itself to volatilisation of organic compounds ; in fact , that is often the primary means of removal . |
| 12 | Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way . |
| 13 | This fatalism lends itself to the infamous Burmese bureaucracy , partly because bureaucracy looks like efficiency , partly because bureaucracy fits so neatly into the unchanging Buddhist worldview . |
| 14 | A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Much of the debate on the ‘ internal market ’ appears to relate to elective surgery , which lends itself to ‘ packages ’ of care . |
| 17 | This phenomenon again suggests that the interpretation of a pronoun is influenced by a representation of superficial aspects of the preceding text It also lends itself to experimental study . |
| 18 | The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades . |
| 19 | As Seigel puts it in Computing Law — ‘ information is power over decision , power over capital , power over individuals , power over organisation , power over adversaries and power over the past , present and future , and [ that ] power lends itself to any use and abuse ’ . |
| 20 | It is also likely to bring even the larger authorities face to face with the problem of staff mobility — where the absence of one or two people attending an external course may be relatively easily absorbed ( except in smaller authorities ) , internal training is uneconomic for one or two people — and ideally , lends itself to a continuous programme . |
| 21 | The surrounding natural beauty of the region lends itself to every kind of outdoor activity . |
| 22 | It lends itself to me and I return to the theatre strangely renewed . |
| 23 | CD-Rom , on the other hand , lends itself to large general reference works such as encyclopaedias . |
| 24 | But , as used generally , a plate is a whole page illustration , coloured or otherwise , printed separately from the text and usually on a different type of paper which lends itself to glossy reproduction . |
| 25 | The muscular frame lends itself to ‘ strength ’ sports and is often defined as the ‘ pear shape ’ because of the wide hips . |
| 26 | For example , it lends itself to a curve following the outline of the frame , a garland or a solid design . |
| 27 | A semantic net lends itself to graphic display , and its meaning tends to be intuitively , if not formally , clear . |
| 28 | This characteristic is different from sympathy which might be described as a warm rosy glow of a feeling of identification , that lends itself to being paralysed by sorrow , overwhelmed with shared worry , and joyful too . |
| 29 | Because the music is fairly hard , it lends itself to expressions of anger and bitterness and violent feelings rather than blissed-out loveydovey stuff . ’ |
| 30 | The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated . |