Example sentences of "it provides a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of the new system from the employer 's point of view is that it provides a completely flexible framework of qualifications based on nationally accepted standards . |
| 2 | It provides a superficially plausible answer to deep and troubling questions about existence . |
| 3 | Arguably it provides a very strong constraint on managers to act efficiently , if we may assume they are concerned about their future career path and if they believe that the firm does not systematically assess their performance wrongly . |
| 4 | Instead , it provides a very interesting suggestion as to the direction and strength of co-operation within such a school . |
| 5 | First , it provides a more convincing explanation of the failure of conservation than ‘ a lack of political will ’ or ‘ powerful vested interests ’ or other dark and unspecified reasons . |
| 6 | Given the prevalence of the commodity record form , this distinction will remain , and it provides a more fruitful way of looking at present contradictions than diagnostic analyses of recorded music into ‘ oral ’ and ‘ literate ’ elements . |
| 7 | It provides a more synchronous population than in vivo mating because fertilization , which initiates development ( 8 ) , can be timed precisely . |
| 8 | Although the draft PPG purports to elaborate on the concepts of town-centre vitality and viability , we do not believe it provides a sufficiently clear explanation to avoid lengthy debates at public inquiries over these terms . |
| 9 | However , many firms take a fairly robust approach to allocation , using one overall basis ( such as space times fee income ) and as long as it is a fair allocation and does not distort fee rates , it provides a perfectly acceptable alternative to the more detailed method . |
| 10 | In soft brass passages it provides a perfectly satisfactory bass by itself , but in loud ones the difference in quality between its ‘ blunt ’ tones and the ‘ sharp ’ utterance of the trumpets and trombones makes itself felt . |
| 11 | ‘ It provides a far greater quality of life . |
| 12 | VISCOUNT has revolutionised the work of Lending Services , because it provides a greatly improved means of access to both bibliographical and library location information : the system currently details over 30 million library locations for more than 3 million titles ! |
| 13 | It provides a much clearer image of the ‘ cherub-faced ’ boy than anything produced so far , though the features of the other boy remain indistinct . |
| 14 | Navarra is I believe unique in that it provides a politically acceptable centre such that both the Basque Country and Catalonia would not find it embarrassing to attend a summer school there , and in that it is sufficiently endowed while remaining approachable to provide an alternative to Madrid , which would I imagine present far greater bureaucratic difficulty . |
| 15 | The Sinhalese wedding case also has general value because it provides an exceptionally clear example of the three-phase structure of rites of passage first recognized by Hertz and Van Gennep around 1908 but which has subsequently been shown to apply to all kinds of social rituals . |
| 16 | Running under Digital Research 's GEM environment it provides an almost uncanny level of control over both simple and compound documents . |