Example sentences of "[noun sg] provided the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Gustaf Aulén ( 1879–1978 ) points out ( 1965 : ch. 4 ) , the New Testament provided the basic groundwork for a full-blooded belief in the Evil One and the dark powers . |
| 2 | Threadgill led Middlesbrough and Cleveland to team victory , following on from the junior boys team success , when the club provided the first four runners home , spearheaded by Alan Aitchison . |
| 3 | Anglicanism provided the largest number of clerical recruits to national efficiency and social hygiene . |
| 4 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 5 | They would have a different view about which more concrete conception provided the best justification of coercion , and so would have a different view of the implicit extension of the abstract convention in question . |
| 6 | All round the coast fishing provided the chief by-employment , outranking both clothing and tinning in the south-eastern quarter of the county . |
| 7 | ‘ Whether the Ulster administration provided the right opportunities ’ . |
| 8 | However that may be — and the question of which side made use of them first may well remain unsolved — the Roman law provided the necessary structure for the growing canon law and its study , canonistics ; and it also provided the German emperorship with some possible answers to the canonist onslaught . |
| 9 | It was clear that some notion of popular sovereignty provided the only plausible basis on which to challenge the theory and practice of absolutism . |
| 10 | The feudal summons , the summons of the £40 or £20 landowners , and the use of commissions of array thus provided troops for armies led by the king , while the royal household provided the administrative machinery by which wages were paid . |
| 11 | Modern scientific knowledge can be used by such societies and Rolt gives two guiding principles for the use of technology : ‘ That mechanical methods should only be employed in work provided the qualitative result achieved is better in the eyes of both maker and user ’ ; and ‘ That no man ( sic ) should make any use of a machine or a scientific process unless he possess a comprehensive knowledge of its principle , function and purpose , and is already skilled in the use to which it is to be applied ’ . |
| 12 | The horse and not the internal combustion engine provided the principal method of transport , and day-to-day living was based on unremitting toil and self-sacrifice . |
| 13 | For much of the post-war era , Nato and the Warsaw Pact provided the military and political framework for East-West relations . |
| 14 | Both these establishments seem to have had an architectural form very similar to the ordinary domestic buildings of their area , and the hall provided the communal eating and drinking space . |
| 15 | The second point of considerable interest is that this court case provided the first occasion anywhere in the world where a sign language interpreter was appointed by a court to assist in the questioning of , and providing answers from , a deaf person . |
| 16 | The budget provided the financial incentive , but much confusion still abounds over the use of unleaded petrol . |
| 17 | Indeed its formulation provided the theological undergirding for having a Council at all and not leaving everything to the pope to decide alone . |
| 18 | Clearly , the computer provided the ideal way to process the mass of information contained in personnel records in offices and depots all over the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | The highly charged atmosphere created by the boycott and the Bensonhurst trial provided the first severe test for the city 's first black mayor , David Dinkins . |
| 20 | On each occasion a common sense category tied to urban renewal often hides a set of social processes which does little for those whose poverty provided the central rationale for urban policy in the first place . |
| 21 | Its sound provided the first syllable of Poirot 's name ‘ poir ’ , and for the second one need look no further than the French word ‘ perdreau ’ , meaning ‘ a young partridge ’ . |
| 22 | IN 1827 , ITS ACTIVE INGREDIENT , SALICIN , WAS ISOLATED ; & WITH MEADOWSWEET 'S SIMILAR SALICYLIC ACID PROVIDED THE CHEMICAL BLUEPRINT FOR ASPIRIN |
| 23 | With the threat of war approaching , a Cadet Corps was formed and my Sunday school teacher provided the fifteen shillings necessary for the purchase of a second-hand uniform , which had to be cut down to boy 's size . |
| 24 | The deliberate attempt to link learning to the design of instruction provided the necessary discipline to treat learning as a practical as well as a theoretical issue . |
| 25 | Mrs Baggley 's evidence provided the first unshakeable facts about Paul 's whereabouts after he had left his home on the evening of his murder . |
| 26 | Einstein also recognized that the stress-energy tensor provided the appropriate tensor description for the distribution and flow of energy in space–time . |
| 27 | The purchaser acquires good title provided the following requirements are fulfilled : |
| 28 | The destruction of the Bastille in July 1789 drew from Coleridge impassioned verse in praise of freedom and ‘ glad Liberty ’ , and the fevered excitement inspired throughout Europe by the early days of the French Revolution provided the intellectual climate in which his radical conscience began to form . |
| 29 | The tenant 's mere act of signing a lease agreement is not a supply by him for which the landlord provided the rent-free period as consideration . |
| 30 | But once again , Idealism provided the theoretical justification for a ( political ) critique based upon combined ageist and class prejudices . |