Example sentences of "[adv] provide [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 2 | But these earlier records collected here have a freshness of tone , a joyful freedom on the high notes of the lyric soprano 's range , and the adaptability to move from the low tessitura and dramatic style of Sieglinde 's narrative to the tender lyricism of Massenet 's Manon or Puccini 's Angelica , then back again to ‘ Ozean , du Ungeheuer ’ and on to provide the delicacy of touch appropriate to Mozart 's Susanna and Cherubino . |
| 3 | These series are being grouped together to provide a set of price indices for agricultural , industrial and consumer prices . |
| 4 | Any attempt to frame a definition along these lines , however , would run aground because , although such a definition could be made fairly general , it would not discriminate sharply enough to provide a guarantee of hyponymy : |
| 5 | The committee needs to be large enough to provide a mix of skills and experience and to permit fruitful discussion encompassing different viewpoints , but small enough to take effective decisions with reasonable speed . |
| 6 | Although Gumperz bases his analyses on transcriptions of actual conversation , his examples consisting of " illustrative brief exchanges , just long enough to provide a basis for context bound interpretation " ( 1982 : 75 ) show only the stretches of speech containing the code-switched utterances themselves , and omit specifications of pauses , laughter , other parties ' contributions which overlap with the current speakers " and other details which are considered potentially important by conversation analysts . |
| 7 | Wycliffe had no idea but surely not enough to provide a motive for murder . |
| 8 | The five weeks is structured to provide a fairly comprehensive picture of actor training though even so it can only provide an outline of classes at drama school . |
| 9 | This means , for example , negotiating good-practice job evaluation schemes and union participation in vocational training , so providing the access for women to long-term non- traditional jobs . |
| 10 | In the firm 's New Issues Statistics — July-September 1992 , it sees three main areas the majority of flotation candidates will come from : MBO companies seeking an exit for their investors , funds to repay debt and the flexibility to raise equity finance to fund further growth ; the demerger of listed companies ' subsidiaries or divisions where it is apparent that the parts will be valued higher than the whole ; and the traditional private companies which have hitherto provided the bulk of flotations . |
| 11 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 12 | Given that stock logistics can not be an exact science and only provides an indication of use , McClellan 's system of analysing loans and shelf stock statistics is simpler ( particularly if issue statistics are analysed on a computer ) and probably no less useful . |
| 13 | Lévi-Strauss suggests that as a science anthropology should be attempting not to provide a definition of man as he is known experientially in our own society — an unscientific subjectivism — but should rather begin by ‘ dissolving ’ him . |
| 14 | However , the purpose of the article was not to provide a step by step guide to the workings of PCA ( see reference 1 ) , but rather to stimulate interest in the application of the technique . |
| 15 | Cells thus provide the key to understanding development because their behaviour brings about embryonic development and is controlled by gene activity . |
| 16 | There now exists a plethora of local economic development initiatives being implemented by local authorities and enterprise agencies throughout the UK seeking broadly to provide a range of business support mechanisms , which derive their justification somewhat confusingly from both a welfare and economic rationale pitched at the level of the local economy . |
| 17 | Incorporation certainly does not provide a shield against actions brought against surveyors for professional negligence . |
| 18 | The Children Act provides a structure for working within them ; but it does not provide a base for practice . |
| 19 | If she could not provide a remedy for life 's major troubles , she accepted a way round . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you quite at the end of your resources , that you can not provide a meal of fish , or eggs or cheese ? |
| 21 | In a telling phrase Lord Scarman argued : ‘ The social conditions in Brixton do not provide an excuse for disorder . |
| 22 | The promise refers to the post-resurrection days ; it does not provide an exception to Mark 's sharp portrait of Jesus alone as the man uniquely possessed by the Holy Spirit . |
| 23 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 24 | Many diets fail because they do not provide the variety of foods that the body craves and after a couple of enthusiastic days the willpower begins to weaken . |
| 25 | Rather where such cases do occur it is because the health and social care system can not provide the type of care these patients need . |
| 26 | However , if part of that heartwood were found on an archaeological site , the radiocarbon result would not provide the date of usage of the wood , but rather a date three hundred radiocarbon years earlier , and more if it has been seasoned before use or re-used . |
| 27 | The Government appreciate that that line does not provide the quality of service which passengers can reasonably expect . |
| 28 | The beauty of what we have is that even if some of the programs we currently possess will not provide the sort of answer we want , we can always write one that will . |
| 29 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 30 | ‘ Open systems , client/server and case tools can not provide the answer to information technology alone , ’ he argued . |