Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] provide [art] " in BNC.

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1 Well as I say I mean we 're doing very well and all the money and , and you know , ninety percent of the money comes out of the the er the members ' pockets really I mean ev even the sub for the open show , we put out a lot of that even the stuff and things like this , so we do provide an awful lot of money .
2 Although LEAs have sometimes held on to powers at the centre which prevented decisions being made quickly and flexibly , they did provide an education service which allowed an effective response to diversity and need .
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 Such headings are open to a number of objections ; nevertheless , they do provide an initial framework for thinking about curriculum and culture . ’
11 However , they do provide the reader with some indication of the growth and size of the overall market .
12 They have worked on the basis of service , and certainly the hoteliers I know erm and their American visitors erm have a strong and excellent relationship because they do provide the service .
13 Nevertheless , it did provide a stepping stone for some significant figures .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Unfortunately a concrete path , provided by the builders , had to be broken up ; but it did provide a hardcore base for the paving .
20 The monkey was eaten up in the trees , and was half hidden by leaves , but it did provide the key shot for the closing sequence of the ‘ Hunting and Escaping ’ programme in The Trials of Life .
21 While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 .
22 However , it does provide a unique guide to Leonardo 's inner self .
23 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 .
24 However it does provide a useful introduction to the origins of the Alcohol Education Course reported here .
25 Such a plan will inevitably be modified , but it does provide a framework on which to build .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 It does provide a means of enabling nurses with small children or other dependents to remain in employment .
30 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 .
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