Example sentences of "it provide [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It provided corporates with a fast and easy-to-use PC network-based solution to the problem of obtaining and reporting on financial information from their domestic and international subsidiaries .
2 It provided employers with a cheap labour force .
3 It provided answers to every conceivable question with an assurance and a seemingly impregnable logic which the romantics of the 1940s , the nihilists of the 1860s , and the populists of the 1870s had sought but never found .
4 Her empire had become unwieldy and , if its defences could be forced , it provided opportunities for trading and for snatching a few of the less well-defended colonies .
5 For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done .
6 The tops of ling heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) , produce yet another shade of yellow dye when boiled in water , and in fact that entire plant is wonderfully versatile : it was commonly used for thatching houses , and even today the few Highland thatchers that remain will swear it is the best thatch in Gaeldom ; it provided beds to sleep on , with the ‘ tops up and roots down ’ arrangement of the mattress assuring a pleasantly aromatic and sound sleep ; it was used in part of the process of tanning leather ; and the fresh , young tops of the heather were ( and at times still are ) brewed into a kind of ale .
7 In England it provided sails and cables for the fleet ; and for this reason , legislation going back to the reign of Henry VIII required that a small proportion of land be set aside for its production .
8 Informix looks to OpenODB to enable it to provide customers with an easy evolution to object-oriented technology that enables them to use data already stored in the Informix-OnLine database .
9 Is it to provide herbs for use , such as flavouring herbs , medicinal herbs , or household and insecticidal herbs ?
10 The form most frequently found is the barn with lean-tos built against it to provide cow-houses , stables or cart-shed .
11 Furthermore , within Compact there is a strong incentive for employers to participate in this sort of curriculum support since it provides insights into the ways the schools which they are partnering approach learning .
12 It provides insights into the purposes of balance sheets , profit and loss accounts and methods of costing projects and production .
13 Subtitled ‘ A short history of Everton , its Mother Church , and one of its mid-Victorian Churchwardens , including notes on how to start tracing a Family Tree ’ , it highlights the fortunes of the Mould family and by so doing it provides insights into the character of a place that was overwhelmed by its powerful neighbour 's rapid expansion .
14 It provides students with the language and communicative skills they will need in their professional lives .
15 Used in conjunction with the Workbook , it provides beginners with an enjoyable and thorough grounding in both structures and basic functional English . ’
16 Therefore , in the current climate , the Income & Growth Personal Equity Plan [ PEP ] + offers an attractive investment option as it provides returns based upon stock market performance and you are able to take your proceeds completely free of UK personal income and capital gains tax .
17 It may be said to be on the right lines , but at best it provides materials for an answer to the logical question , materials which it does not combine properly .
18 It provides discounts of up to one third on most fares and a 50 per cent discount on the Network Card for travel in London and the South-east .
19 It provides services to industry from the Mrs Mop level up to hiring out telescopic lifting gear to TV companies .
20 It provides criteria for notification , a workable timetable ( which could , however , be improved by shortening the time limits ) and a system for authorising mergers if the parties modify their plans or give undertakings .
21 It provides options which are concerned with organising or adjusting the LIFESPAN system facilities , and includes creating new users , administration of process model functionality , arranging times of shut downs , displaying and updating user details and allocating charge codes .
22 In return , it provides scientists and engineers with the scope to ask ‘ what if ? ’ questions .
23 Previously acquired knowledge influences our perception of events in that it provides frames of references against which current information is judged .
24 It provides paradigms of action and role models through which we interpret ‘ real life ’ .
25 It provides managers with policy data ; a multi-user diary ; graphical sales analysis ; performance analysis and competency records of sales personnel in the field ; multi-user event management ; the allocation of clients to sales personnel — or ‘ orphan management ’ ; electronic mail ; management information and data exchange-transfer .
26 The importance of recognition as a goal is that it provides managers with unlimited opportunity .
27 As Registrar it provides shareholders registration services to over 200 companies .
28 It raises almost as many questions as it provides answers , but it has not been challenged before us .
29 An objective view is free from the values , moral judgments and ideology of the observer : it provides facts and explanatory frameworks which are uncoloured by the observer 's feelings and opinions .
30 The importance of this scheme can not be over-emphasised as it provides pupils with set targets which will motivate them to work hard and raise the standard of their play .
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