Example sentences of "not [adv] lend [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such contradictory findings do not immediately lend themselves to providing a basis for a programme of legislative reform . |
| 4 | It does not immediately lend itself to action on the part of the adviser . |
| 5 | Code switching in this community therefore does not immediately lend itself to an account based on a notion of " we " and " they " : the " we " and " they " psychology must first be shown to exist . |
| 6 | The promises do not readily lend themselves to precise costings . |
| 7 | Highly specialised manufacturing equipment , chemical cleanser for photographic equipment , or nuts and bolts for plumbing equipment do not readily lend themselves to sampling , but a case might be made for including small but appropriate gifts in any press pack . |
| 8 | However there was a problem which the cost-push explanation of inflation found impossible to surmount , namely , that it does not readily lend itself to rigorous empirical verification . |