Example sentences of "lend itself [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has lent itself admirably to the finishing of chairs , cabinets and desks — pieces where a very sensitive finish is required . |
| 2 | The object may lend itself equally to the expression of difference , indicating the separate domains to which people or aspects of people belong , and to the expression of unity , connecting otherwise diverse domains . |
| 3 | Left hemisphere control of sequential motor activity which lent itself readily to a symbolic gestural system may have been the evolutionary precursor to present day lateralisation of language . |
| 4 | Christmas is a natural time for us to indulge ourselves , free from the constraints of commissioning clients , and as calligraphy lends itself admirably to the creation of ephemera such as greetings cards , most of us have a large collection of those many of our distinguished colleagues . |
| 5 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 6 | And indeed , the lexicon of " Diffugere nives " lends itself repeatedly to the construction of immanent linkages in the lexicon , a strain of metaphor not overt ( like the obvious figure of comae , " tresses " , in the second line ) but operating covertly through the potential spread of reference , the semantic leeway , in certain items of vocabulary . |
| 7 | The assessment of this module lends itself readily to an integrated assignment where evidence may be generated which is appropriate for more than one outcome . |