Example sentences of "it [verb] provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 2 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 3 | Nova Scotia became the first province to break the compact earlier this year when it agreed to provide 16 infected individuals with a non-taxable $30,000 per year until they die , and to reimburse the cost of drugs , most of which are not covered by Medicare . |
| 4 | But here as elsewhere , though the emphasis on cost and utility was helpful in curbing bureaucratic empire-builders , it failed to provide a full definition of the public service which should be provided . |
| 5 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 6 | Whilst it rendered the monarch formally subordinate to Parliament in the sense that it became acknowledged that , at the end of the day , the will of Parliament was to prevail , it failed to provide adequately and efficiently for the discharge of executive government . |
| 7 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 8 | It sought to provide for workers ' retirement by broad , diversified investment in the American economy , that is , in equities . |
| 9 | It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job . |
| 10 | It gives scope for the hobby-electronics enthusiast to try out his own ideas , and for those who do n't the design as it stands provides a useful power supply unit . |
| 11 | Secondly , it has provided young , highly enthusiastic professionals with unprecedented access to some of the jewels of English carving . |
| 12 | Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets . |
| 13 | Since its launch , it has provided a base line for studying global warming . |
| 14 | He said Norwich had faced calls on 60 of the 1,200 so-called ‘ property-backed ’ guarantees it has provided to Lloyd 's members . |
| 15 | Apart from the fact that it 's not the way we like our work to come to us , it has provided some other difficulties . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Gay intellectuals may dismiss essentialism as a bogus utopia , but it has provided the emotional power behind a great deal of gay activism — it is much harder to claim civil rights for a discursive construction . |
| 18 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
| 19 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 20 | Right from the start of the period and up to this present time late in the twentieth century , it has provided numerous examples of the manner in which mankind has failed again and again , in his efforts to mitigate the suffering inherent in the ruthless laws of evolution by replacing them with something better , something which it called ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 21 | In addition , it has provided £100,000 for a national environmental projects competition and backed dozens of local schemes . |
| 22 | If any good has come out of the Mandy 's story , it is the barrage of publicity it has provided on under-age sex . |
| 23 | But it is idle , and indeed pernicious , to suppose that it has provided solutions of any worthwhile generality . |
| 24 | For centuries , it has provided an excuse for people to kiss each other , even encouraging shy folks to kiss their hearts ' desire . |
| 25 | It has provided the spark to get me going again . ’ |
| 26 | It has provided an advice service to staff and students , conducted research and published information , but perhaps most of all has provided through its regional and local groups , and national conferences , an opportunity for teaching staff and others to meet together on a regular basis to share ideas and experience . |
| 27 | It has provided the framework for the acceptance of Japan as a leading member of the top Western nations ' club , on the basis of an apparent willingness to accept many Western political and cultural values and a devotion to the pursuit of economic activity within the parameters of the US-dominated international economy . |
| 28 | It has provided unique information on the pattern of food consumption and expenditure in Great Britain for fifty years . |
| 29 | While it has never resolved long-standing tensions between discourses on " culture " , " science " , " philanthropy " ( later transmuted to " welfare " ) , and " national efficiency " ( later , " wealth creation " ) , it has provided a cultural domain apparently immune to the ravages caused by their continuing conflicts . |
| 30 | While the practical impact of PPB can best be described as marginal , it has provided an important contribution in terms of new ideas for the potentiality of a system of output budgeting . |