Example sentences of "to provide [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end the police decided not to seek to ban the march but to police the route and to provide protection for the marchers against the violence which had been threatened by opposing factions . |
| 2 | There were also reports of clashes between troops and localized vigilante groups established to provide protection against the activities of Duvalierist supporters . |
| 3 | The economic structure of the countryside near the line-of-rail , linking the mines with ports via South Africa , was transformed to provide labour for the miners on temporary labour contracts in which the miner 's family would stay behind on the family farm . |
| 4 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
| 5 | ‘ We won the £25,000 contract in competitive bidding through the Overseas Development Agency as part of the UK Know-How fund which has been set up to provide assistance to the countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | Pinochet , C.-in-C. of the Army , speaking before 1,500 officers at Santiago 's Military Academy on March 29 , described the report as having no " historical or legal validity " and opposed government plans to provide compensation for the families of the victims of repression . |
| 7 | Coupled with attempts to provide compensation for the victims of crime , they represent an attractive package to a public deeply concerned with crime . |
| 8 | 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son . |
| 9 | She was being asked to provide security for the debts of the company in order , as the bank knew , to advance her husband 's business interests . |
| 10 | A SCHEME which aims to provide respite for the parents of children who are on their summer holidays is being organised . |
| 11 | The research aims to provide evidence on the effects of the new guidelines . |
| 12 | Having the responsibility vested in them to provide education for the children in their areas , they were faced with two problems : teachers ' action and withdrawal of goodwill and a central Government elected with the mandate to restrict public spending . |
| 13 | This recommendation was not accepted , however , and the authorities still have to balance the need to provide access to the parks with the need to preserve them from the increased pressure that results . |
| 14 | ‘ As chief executive of a large local authority , I employ solicitors to provide advice to the departments on many matters including child care , planning law , and negotiating with building contractors . |
| 15 | Participating and enjoying disability arts could then be seen as only a side-show in the drama of struggle for change , something to provide relief from the tensions of boring or stressful committee meetings . |
| 16 | The relative abundance of dissolved constituents released through weathering reactions into surface waters can be compared to their relative abundance in the bedrock in order to provide information on the types of chemical reactions that are occurring . |
| 17 | Again , this data base is not used to determine the overall frequency of homicide , but to provide information about the types of people who were involved and the proximate causes of the crimes . |
| 18 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
| 19 | Tiller began to provide entertainment in the intervals at the Empress Ballroom , Blackpool . |
| 20 | The American Pressurized Water Reactor ( PWR ) , still the type most commonly in use in the United States , has a relatively compact core because it was originally designed to provide power inside the hulls of submarines . |