Example sentences of "[verb] provide [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , quantitative data do provide some guide to changes in the subject balance of first degree courses over recent years .
2 Despite the limitations of the official figures , they do provide some indication of the overall historical trends in the distribution of income .
3 It does not explain all the peculiar initial conditions of the big bang ; but it does provide some rationale for conditions that otherwise have to be accepted as given .
4 Nonetheless , it does provide some measure .
5 This latter unit ( formerly the HO Research Unit ) does provide some research material for those who seek it out and its bulletin is a reference source to recent government funded research , which is largely concerned with operational systems and the tools of policing .
6 It may be of use to compare the regional groupings of brooch types with those areas which are revealed as high consumers of imported luxury goods ; whilst such a correlation tells us nothing about the mode of production of the brooches , it does provide some articulation to the distribution maps .
7 The anthropic principle does provide some sort of explanation of many of the remarkable numerical relations that are observed between the values of different physical parameters .
8 However , we can say that even historic cost accounting , in times of rising prices , does provide some indication of the extent to which capital might have been eroded or maintained , which as we have suggested earlier is potentially useful information .
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