Example sentences of "have provided a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets . |
| 2 | But over the years , because of the dictates of bank balance and burgeoning family , we have spent much of our time exploring Scotland ; and our love of game fishing has provided a marvellous excuse for tramping moor and mountain in seach of peace , seclusion , and a few wild brown trout . |
| 3 | Camp Marash , where perhaps 150,000 Armenians now live , spawned its own gunmen in the 1980s , the ‘ Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ’ , whose assassination campaign against Turkish diplomats has provided a violent epitaph for the calcified remains in the Antelyas ossuary . |
| 4 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 5 | Trading standards officer say the recent growth in car boot sales has provided a perfect outlet for the computer pirates . |
| 6 | Trading standards officer say the recent growth in car boot sales has provided a perfect outlet for the computer pirates . |
| 7 | So-called ‘ predatory pricing ’ has provided a major conundrum for competition authorities . |
| 8 | The Association can be justly proud of this project which has provided a fitting memorial for Lord Dowding and a long term investment in much needed welfare accommodation . |
| 9 | This is seen particularly in the USA , where the very large domestic market has provided a safe haven for many companies of substantial size . |
| 10 | The film director Michael Law whom Minton met in Soho at this time has provided a vivid metaphor for his condition : ‘ Johnny was really like a clock with the machinery hanging out . |
| 11 | Once the mystery has provided a sufficient reason for hero or heroine to find themselves in a good opening situation of suspense , the person or persons behind that mystery can be safety revealed . |
| 12 | It has provided a valuable structure for our thinking and discussions , but , because we have had to focus less on teachers and more on pupils , we have not found it appropriate to map programmes of study directly on to the model . |
| 13 | Much earlier still , potassium-argon dating has provided a chronological framework for the early hominid finds in East Africa . |
| 14 | The development of systematic geography has provided an unhealthy climate for the survival of mythological anomalies but this has in no way frustrated the human imagination ; the world of fable has simply been transferred to outer space . |
| 15 | It has provided an essential cement for the whole of the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | This , of course , has provided an extra excuse for the highly protective Kinnocks to keep him out of the firing line . |
| 17 | And he 's had it slapped in his face , because this council has provided an adequate budget for the police authority , it has pr , treated it fairly and squarely like every other council committee , and made sure that the service they provide is adequate for the people of this county . |
| 18 | This declaration proved to be premature , although a recommendation that there should be a longer term for the candidate stage towards full party membership must have provided a useful mechanism for sifting the wheat from the chaff . |
| 19 | However , there are no easy solutions to the problems of an area such as the Highlands within the constraints of the existing national economic structure , and there is no certainty that small-scale industries would have provided a better base for employment growth . |
| 20 | I understand that feeling because we have had to do things that are counter intuitive and very difficult but unless we had driven inflation out of the system we would not have provided a proper platform for secure long term growth . |
| 21 | The couple were not going to the palace of Saint Cloud , which would certainly not have provided an intimate setting for a honeymoon , but to a small house at Villeneuve l'Etang , which the Emperor had purchased himself . |
| 22 | That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment . |
| 23 | He would have provided an excellent model for Stendhal 's portrait of the capricious but timid despot of Parma whose minister warned him that ‘ to have received power from Providence is no longer enough in these times ; it requires brains and a strong character to succeed in being a despot ’ . |
| 24 | Stalin would not have been suspected , or connected with his murder , and it would have provided an excellent reason for the purges , which Stalin began due to his paranoia of being replaced . |
| 25 | The Policy Planning Staff opinion on Kremlin-directed strategy went word for word into the NSC report The position of the United States with respect to Asia ( NSC 48/1 ) whose conclusions were approved by the US President on 30 December 1949 ( NSC 48/2 ) , although in the NSC paper it was an expression that was qualified by the proposition that it was the colonial — nationalist conflict which had provided a fertile field for subversive communist activities . |
| 26 | As we saw earlier ( Ch.7 ) , wool taxation to raise war funds had provided a protective tariff for the textile industry , and the war had damaged one of the main Continental cloth-manufacturing centres in Flanders . |
| 27 | Helen Harding , the sister of Liz 's mother , and her husband James Harding , the senior partner in a large firm of lawyers in Plymouth , had provided a loving home for their young niece . |
| 28 | The Greenwood Act had provided a special subsidy for flats , and indeed the 1930s produced flat building in British cities in a significant way for the first time . |
| 29 | Stability had not provided an increase in the number of occupational pensioners , but it had provided a secure environment for the lucky half of the nation who were covered . |
| 30 | A major political scandal developed following the arrest by East German police of nine persons suspected of extremist attacks in West Germany on behalf of the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) and in particular over allegations that the former communist authorities had provided a safe haven for them . |