Example sentences of "not [verb] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 4 | Similarly , a new method or process of manufacture which does not lend itself to detailed analysis by competitors will probably remain immune from imitation by rivals precisely because the employer has avoided the mandatory public disclosure involved in proceeding with a patent application . |
| 5 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation . |
| 9 | The research does not limit itself to quantitative performance measures ( eg number and cost of jobs created ) but utilises the richness of qualitative yardsticks . |
| 10 | Government intention does not transform itself into public enterprise action in a mechanical and straightforward way . |
| 11 | Husbandry was so neglected the population could not feed itself from local resources . |
| 12 | It seems that there is the possibility of using a sign code , but it does not express itself among deaf people in this sort of task as clearly as speech coding does in hearing people . |
| 13 | Science , as we know , has tremendous potential to change the way we live ; yet it professes not to concern itself with moral issues , insisting upon its own objectivity . |
| 14 | A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post-medieval literature . |
| 15 | The EC does not concern itself with national health or education policies . |
| 16 | It does not concern itself with encyclopaedic or ’ world ’ knowledge — that is deemed the province of pragmatics . |
| 17 | Any professional approach that does not concern itself with supporting and facilitating these same processes of growth for people with learning difficulties must be seriously open to question . |