Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to provide a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as the availability of judicial review ( remedies ) is concerned , the distinction was used in cases decided after Ridge to provide a basis for denying , for example , that disciplinary decisions of prison governors ( as opposed to boards of prison visitors ) were subject to judicial review . |
| 2 | However , so few of the possible quadgrams occur in the LOB ( and of those found , 70% only occur once ) that it would appear that the LOB corpus is not a large enough sample of text to provide a reliable quadgram model . |
| 3 | Frances Black , based in Dublin , is one of the country 's finest singers — what better combination of talent to provide a perfect evening of song ? |
| 4 | The very high quality of the data in terms of capacity to provide a good sample of everyday language is of course the major advantage of a participant observation method . |
| 5 | Mrs Yaxlee turned the pages with sufficient sense of drama to provide a build up . |
| 6 | The officer did not invite the defendant to express a preference for giving blood or urine but warned him of the consequences of failure to provide a specimen and gave him the opportunity to put forward any reasons why a specimen of blood could not be taken by a doctor . |
| 7 | Timber floors , in particular , should be secure with all floorboard nails punched home ( if necessary , use screws to secure loose floorboards ) , and if the floor is at all uneven nail down sheets of hardboard to provide a base . |
| 8 | Staffing allotment will be 654 for England , 225 for Wales , 385 for Scotland and 86 for the joint UK Nature Conservation Committee , which was set up by the Department of Environment to provide a central voice for the NCC . |
| 9 | THE European parliament is at odds with the Commission and member states over the draft directive covering working conditions for employees sent to another EC country under contract to provide a specific service . |
| 10 | From the nexus of contracts perspective the shareholders are not owners , but simply one of the several parties who make a contract with management to provide a factor of production ( in their case , capital ) for their common benefit . |
| 11 | It 's like an adventure playground but everything in it is padded with foam to provide a safe learning environment . |
| 12 | IBM is also integrating parts of Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench technology into AD/Cycle to provide a data control tool . |
| 13 | IBM is also integrating parts of Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench technology into AD/Cycle to provide a data control tool . |
| 14 | From its origins as comment and interpretation of recorded music , " toasting " evolved into an event in its own right , giving the DJ an opportunity to display verbal " improvisation , quickwittedness and skill " in Bones 's words , and in addition to provide a " politically engaged comment " ( Gilroy 1987 : 193 ) in many cases . |
| 15 | There must , we think , be some argument from analogy to provide a way round scepticism . |
| 16 | Banfield 's work , though a classic of its kind , is recognised even by pluralists as too limited in scope to provide a full explanation of the phenomenon of tong-term peripheral deprivation . |
| 17 | President Reagan failed to support an effort in Congress to provide a five-year , $1000 million package of loans and other measures to tempt the mining firms into action . |
| 18 | I believe stores must invest more in training to provide a better service to customers . |
| 19 | At the top of the atrium , the pitched-roof-profile roof-light was made larger than was strictly necessary in order to provide a conservatory complete with tropical plants ( Plate 48 ) which leads out on to a landscaped roof garden capping the western half of the building . |
| 20 | Metal-framed suspended ceilings were installed throughout , two layers of ‘ fireline ’ board being incorporated at ceiling level in order to provide a one-hour period of fire resistance between storeys . |
| 21 | We need to lift the problem to a higher level of generality , encompassed by the expression ‘ social control , ’ in a benign sense , in order to provide a unifying concept within which the activities of police and other agencies can be co-ordinated . ’ |
| 22 | We think it desirable that the same type of teacher should be employed in these courses ( One-Year , Terminal and less formal ) as in University Tutorial Classes and that arrangements should be made whereby staff-tutors appointed for extra-mural work by the Universities should be encouraged to devote part of their time to less formal work , not only in the interests of the work , but also in order to provide a variety of occupation for the tutor and to ensure that he keeps in touch with all phases of the adult education movement . |
| 23 | Additionally , rainwater from roofs and pavements needs to be controlled and removed in order to provide a clean access and to avoid saturating the subsoil , which could lead to damp and foundation problems . |
| 24 | However , the model needs to be developed in order to provide a more detailed view of ‘ race ’ and British cinema : the categorisation that Vieler-Porter suggests limits the scope for trans-historical analysis , and only concentrates on the manifest content of the texts . |
| 25 | It is more of a denial of another answer , the facile solution to our present problems which calls for greater sums to be spent on social services in order to provide a world free from crime , disease and ignorance . |
| 26 | Most assessment procedures are developed in order to provide a particular kind of interpretation and because of this the criteria against which the child 's language will be evaluated are implicit in the procedure . |
| 27 | Historically , a lot of sex difference research was done specifically in order to provide a scientific account of an already-assumed female inferiority — taking comparative measurements of male and female brains , for instance , as a way of explaining why women were weaker intellectually than men . |
| 28 | The General Nursing Council had laid down conditions for recognition of ‘ places like ours ’ , and it was necessary to make arrangements with a larger hospital in order to provide a complete programme of nursing training . |
| 29 | Here we encounter the continuing dominance of the philosophy of the subject , which , according to Foucault , was specifically introduced in order to provide a ‘ shelter for the sovereignty of consciousness ’ against the intrusion of heterogeneity . |
| 30 | Progressive and enterprising caterers and hotel proprietors constantly study and analyse in detail the current trends and developments in the industry in order to provide a high standard of accommodation and service at reasonable prices and to improve the efficiency of their establishments . |