Example sentences of "it provides a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 It provides a useful introduction to a unique institution .
2 But it provides a powerful aid to the understanding of some of the more baffling political manifestations of our time .
3 It provides a healthy challenge to the virility of a believer 's conviction to see if he can say succinctly just why it is that he believes Christianity is true .
4 It provides a good contrast to more elaborate music .
5 It provides a great contrast to many other parts of England .
6 In this chapter , it is proposed to consider in detail the radical legislation passed in Michigan , New South Wales and Canada , with a view to assessing whether it provides a better solution to the problem of rape than that envisaged by the Criminal Law Revision Committee in England .
7 ‘ More than one person at the event was surprised at the comment but it provides a neat balance to the government 's best wishes for my retirement ’ , he says .
8 Under fairly weak conditions , with only one decision variable , such a ‘ local ’ equilibrium can be shown to exist ( Kramer and Klevorick , 1974 ) , but whether it provides a persuasive resolution to the ‘ majority voting paradox ’ depends on the extent to which choices are limited to small perturbations of the existing situation .
9 But routine policing in a divided society also constitutes an important substantive topic in its own right , for it provides an additional dimension to the analysis of routine policing , as well as expanding and clarifying our understanding of what divided societies are like .
10 It provides an open invitation to language learners to use their imagination creatively , express their views openly , and gain greater confidence with the language they need .
11 Technical though the argument is , it provides an excellent introduction to 18th-century engraving methods and the music printing trade in general .
12 It provides an important reference to medical history in case of emergency .
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