Example sentences of "to provide [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will usually have sufficient sensitivity to provide ample volume from the 20 to 100mV output signal obtained from the a.m. tuner . |
| 2 | It was one thing in the 1830s and the 1930s to provide luxuries for a minority , but it was quite a different thing to provide non-essential products at a competitive price for the whole population . |
| 3 | Gates refused to tender his resignation on the grounds that his 8,300 members were depending on him to provide strong leadership in a difficult situation ( The Guardian , 4 April 1991 ) . |
| 4 | The aim is to provide a corpus of 100 million words of contemporary spoken and written English to provide raw data for the empirical study of language by a wide variety of disciplines . |
| 5 | They include schemes like that of the Abbeyfield Society which aims , by converting large older-type houses , to provide old people with the personal security and independence of their own room and furnishings , combined with the advantages of the degree of companionship and care that a communal dining room , the provision of main meals and the friendly attention of a resident housekeeper afford . |
| 6 | But its flexibility depends upon the levels of aggregation adopted and the willingness to provide different views of the same information . |
| 7 | Others offered to man phones , to work out rotas of helpers , and to provide clerical back-up for the two solicitors . |
| 8 | On Nov. 15 the Senate approved by 91 votes to two , and Bush signed into law , a compromise agreement to provide extended benefits to an estimated 3,000,000 unemployed workers . |
| 9 | By contrast , tumour-suppressor genes inactivated in tumours affecting a certain haemopoietic lineage are presumably expressed during the normal differentiation of the lineage , so their characterisation is likely to provide direct insight into the molecular mechanisms regulating such differentiation . |
| 10 | The aim of the various evaluation procedures carried out was primarily to provide direct feedback on the innovatory user instruction course . |
| 11 | ‘ Notwithstanding all these problems , the bank has kept faith with us in the face of the single most important failing of small business — the failure to provide adequate information on a timely basis , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Voice of Lebanon also reported that Egypt and Libya had agreed to provide light weaponry to the Lebanese gendarmerie , but had refused to contribute weapons to the Army . |
| 13 | Yes the particular item that was deleted was known as the combat override facility which erm was really a trade off erm to provide extra thrust against the reduced life of the engine and clearly if one operates at the top end of the engine spectrum in er hotter conditions and higher er R P M then clearly the life of the engine will be reduced . |
| 14 | From the Second World War the percentage of local government income derived from grants increased steadily and although the proportion began to fall during the 1980s ( as a result of public expenditure restraint policies ) it is still sufficient to provide central government with a powerful instrument for influencing local authorities . |
| 15 | Employers can still set up ‘ top-up ’ pension schemes to provide additional benefits above the new ceiling but such schemes are now taxable . |
| 16 | By developing the economic theory and analysis relevant to such problems of increasing returns and public policy , the project aims to provide additional insight into the associated policy problems and their solution . |
| 17 | A series of peripheral boulevards was begun , though not finished before 1870 , which were designed to provide easy access to the central area at the desired point of entry . |
| 18 | The health authority will make agreements with a range of hospitals and other units in order to provide comprehensive services for the local population . |
| 19 | Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book . |
| 20 | With two other Anglican churches within a three-mile-radius , both with vigorous young clergy and enough parochial organizations to provide serious competition for the social services department , St Matthew 's , with its small and ageing population , was an uncomfortable reminder of the declining authority of the established church in the inner cities . |
| 21 | In the non-European world it was the requirement to provide separate facilities for a complex hierarchy of class and race which made many railway stations larger affairs than they need otherwise have been . |
| 22 | Farmers near Girvan and Dunbar use these advantages to provide early potatoes for the large markets of Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 23 | An initiative instigated by Inter-Continental Hotels has brought together ten major hotel groups to provide individual hotels with a detailed environment manual . |
| 24 | Residential workers are not involved in decisions as to whether , when and where to admit children into care ; fieldworkers fail to provide basic information about the personal histories of the children and young people admitted to care ; young people are admitted to care precipitously , without warning or preparation ; fieldworkers sometimes fail to keep in touch with the young person and the residential staff once the child is admitted ; discharge for the young people can be as sudden as their arrival . |
| 25 | We are co-operating with our partners to provide urgent help to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to upgrade the safety of their nuclear power stations . |
| 26 | They were intended , primarily , to provide interactive training to a level equivalent to BTEC and City and Guilds , acceptable to the Council for Vocational Qualifications and marketable subsequently as commercial , generic courseware . |
| 27 | 1.7. a Institutions varied enormously in the extent to which they were able to provide exact figures for the initial training of specialist language teachers . |
| 28 | The network designed to provide negative feedback over the required operational frequency range can itself introduce positive feedback at other frequencies . |
| 29 | The three convictions had resulted from North 's 1989 trial on 12 felony charges arising from his role in the Iran-contra scandal , a clandestine operation by members of the Reagan administration to sell arms to Iran and to use the proceeds to provide illegal aid to the right-wing Nicaraguan contra rebels . |
| 30 | These features are well exhibited not only in the early fossil orders but also in the Ephemeroptera and Odonata where the alternation of convex and concave veins is probably a mechanical adaptation to provide increased rigidity of the thin wing-membrane ( Edmunds and Traver , 1954 ) . |