Example sentences of "lends itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Geometry is not a subject which lends itself to such treatment .
2 Wallpapering your PC Next in our flying tour of these low cost packages comes Wallpaper Art Gallery for Windows , ( WAGWIN ) a title which ostensibly is single use , but which lends itself to one or two other purposes as well .
3 But the sort of chromea and all that sort of lends itself to one of them aircraft things does n't
4 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated .
7 Martin Casey , ‘ Perspex ’ business manager in the Acrylics Business describes it : ‘ Because extruded sheet is made by a continuous process that lends itself to long runs , it is offered in only a limited range of colours and thicknesses .
8 Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other .
9 The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades .
10 What seemed to me most significant about the period I chose to study was that this was the moment of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , a transition which could best be observed and studied in drawing , which lends itself to greater experimentation .
11 The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy .
12 A semantic net lends itself to graphic display , and its meaning tends to be intuitively , if not formally , clear .
13 More than most things , lung area lends itself to gradual , step-by-step change , all the way from 0 square yards up to 70 square yards .
14 than a typical marker and it lends itself to softer and more characterful styles .
15 But the regional representatives will try to convince Mr Lang that Highland is a unique area , with a strong community identity which lends itself to region-wide treatment .
16 The technique therefore lends itself to functional decomposition .
17 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 .
18 And and it lends itself to interpretive kind of approach rather than a politics sort of approach which tends to be .
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 Cricket , an old and complex game , naturally lends itself to statistical analysis .
21 As a style , modernism visibly lends itself to this appropriation .
22 Sport is so simple , so concentrated and unquestioning , that it sometimes , paradoxically , lends itself to this kind of metaphysical yearning .
23 Stainless steel also lends itself to this modern form of finish .
24 So it 's a more complete er picture , of , of , of the personality , and of course it lends itself to this kind of historical portraiture .
25 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 .
26 Its troopers wear black and white , a combination which lends itself to bold parti-coloured divisions , broad stripes , checks and diamonds .
27 Nor need the scenery always be dramatic : the languid countryside of Norfolk lends itself to exploratory trips with Albion Rides ( Tel : 0603 87125 ) .
28 CD-Rom , on the other hand , lends itself to large general reference works such as encyclopaedias .
29 This process seems to have been handled badly , even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment .
30 The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores .
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