Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] provide a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was work completed in Alaska which helped provide a clue to the nature of the problem at BA-1 , explains head of production technology Lindsay Brown . |
| 2 | Thanks to all the teachers from Inner Kent who helped provide a lovely tea at the training day . |
| 3 | Nevertheless they do provide a rough scheme for organising the multitude of empirical facts concerning the growth of unions . |
| 4 | As a first attempt the results are no doubt crude , but they do provide a basis for further refinement . |
| 5 | Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ . |
| 6 | Although within Goody 's own terms they do provide a challenge to his claims for the consequences of a shift from oral to literate culture , they do not provide an unambiguous or ‘ scientific ’ starting point from which to test those claims . |
| 7 | erm but they do provide a regular and safe income . |
| 8 | They do provide a rapidly accessed source of data and they can be a fruitful source of issues and hypotheses which should be explored in other ways . |
| 9 | But , failing that , they do provide a lot of visual fun for those who will tune in each week . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it did provide a stepping stone for some significant figures . |
| 11 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 12 | The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy . |
| 13 | Now , Muze magazine may not have been a high profile organisation but it did provide a much needed platform for the flourishing Manchester rock scene . |
| 14 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 15 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 16 | Unfortunately a concrete path , provided by the builders , had to be broken up ; but it did provide a hardcore base for the paving . |
| 17 | However , it does provide a unique guide to Leonardo 's inner self . |
| 18 | Such action does not determine what economic activities should be undertaken , but it does provide a framework for discovering and solving problems common to the community as a whole . |
| 19 | However it does provide a useful introduction to the origins of the Alcohol Education Course reported here . |
| 20 | Such a plan will inevitably be modified , but it does provide a framework on which to build . |
| 21 | Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding . |
| 22 | Mammal Ecology by M. J. Delany does not set out specifically to connect ecology with evolution but it does provide a great deal of information packed into its 150 pages . |
| 23 | The international community is not per se owed a duty of obedience to the claims of some of its members , but it does provide a framework for the articulation of claims and for cohesion in response . |
| 24 | It does provide a means of enabling nurses with small children or other dependents to remain in employment . |
| 25 | The two-fold classification into more remote and accessible countryside areas is somewhat simplistic , but it does provide a useful guide to understanding spatial differences in rural population change . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it does provide a view of the bulk of the authority . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 28 | This development has its opponents , but it does provide a way in which mathematics can become more meaningful to some of the children studying it . |
| 29 | But it does provide a framework to which we are all working , spreads out the major publications and pieces of campaigning work , and allows all those in the organisation to know the overall timetable being pursued . |
| 30 | Of course , this does not resolve the issue of inequality , but it does provide a mechanism through which individuals can focus their view of an acceptable ‘ trade-off ’ between redistribution ( equity ) and efficiency . |