Example sentences of "provide [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was announced in a Practice Direction ( 1989 ) 1 WLR 281 , which provided for the much earlier delivery of skeleton arguments which would be studied by the judges before they sat to hear the appeal . |
| 2 | Nor did he reveal any keener affinity with Schubert in the rather mechanical , plainly stated accompaniments that he provided for the mezzo Yvonne Howard . |
| 3 | The Quaker mine-owners could hardly avoid the site 's exposure to the ravages of moorland weather , but they provided for the welfare of their employees , with sick pay and adult education schemes that became models for other employers . |
| 4 | This combination of Infirmary League and Friendly Society was a good insurance against sickness but , of course , there were always those who never provided for the rainy day . |
| 5 | For this reason EC Directives in the 1960s provided for the repeal of such legislation ( in so far as it affected nationals of member states ) as the requirement of West German law that foreign companies wishing to pursue business activities in West Germany must obtain special authorisation from the West German authorities . |
| 6 | Article 67 of the Treaty of Rome provided for the abolition of restrictions on the movement of capital within the Community during the first twelve years of the Community 's existence . |
| 7 | An excess of confusion and costs would attend a system which provided for the affairs of the street to be regulated by its inhabitants , and likewise those of the hamlet , parish , market town , county and region . |
| 8 | Under the second , a development agreement , which provided for the property 's development by the developers , the Prudential agreed to pay certain building costs . |
| 9 | The party machines were crooked , but at least they provided for the to-and-fro of political patronage in ways that left the mayor , as chief executive , relatively free to run the city . |
| 10 | The truce also provided for the continuation of discussions about a permanent peace between the two realms . |
| 11 | The Act also provided for the introduction of community councils as a vehicle for the expression of local opinion . |
| 12 | Inoue reached an agreement on revision which provided for the legal system to be Westernized along approved lines , foreign judges to sit in cases involving non-Japanese nationals , and for tariffs to be raised without the achievement of tariff autonomy . |
| 13 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 14 | The grass , the creepers , the shrubs , the plants of every kind grew thicker every day , and the thicker they grew , the better cover they provided for the sepoys to advance undetected on the ramparts , but for some terrible reason , on the ramparts themselves nothing would grow . |
| 15 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 16 | Admittedly , the Brugnoni case is concerned with article 2(1) of the First Directive , which provided for the grant of general authorisations in respect of the capital movements set out in list B of Annex I , and Directive ( 85/566/E.E.C. ) repealed that article and merged list B with list A referred to in article 1(1) , under which member states are to grant all foreign exchange authorisations required . |
| 17 | The English actions were not combined in a single trial but subject to an order of Steyn J. which provided for the selection of lead cases to ensure determination of the major points of law and to avoid multiplicity of litigation . |
| 18 | The lady , who founded the carers ' help line , er , in the literature that you provided for the programme was suggesting that the government should recognise that there are six million unpaid carers . |
| 19 | Basically it provided for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered through the NHS under the central direction of the Minister of Health . |
| 20 | Virtually all of the republics , by the late 1980s , had adopted legislation which provided for the majority language of that republic to enjoy official status . |
| 21 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 22 | The agreements — comparable , in Pravda 's view , to the INF treaty — included bilateral accords between Afghanistan and Pakistan on non-interference and non-intervention , and on the voluntary return of refugees ; a Soviet-US declaration in support of these agreements ; and a joint agreement on the settlement of the Afghan situation which provided for the ‘ phased withdrawal ’ of Soviet troops , half of them between May and August 1988 and the remainder within the following nine months . |
| 23 | The Special Areas ( Development and Improvement ) Act , 1934 , provided for measures of assistance to facilitate the economic development and social improvement of areas affected by industrial depression ; it also provided for the appointment of two Commissioners ( one for England and Wales , and one for Scotland ) to prosecute that assistance . |
| 24 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 25 | Within a year of partition , the Constabulary Act ( NI ) 1922 was passed , which provided for the formation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) . |
| 26 | In February 1959 a treaty was made between the United Kingdom and the United Arab Republic which provided for the return of sequestrated property , except property sold between October 1956 and August 1958 . |
| 27 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 28 | I much regretted the dismissive attitude taken by my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) , who has clearly totally forgotten that the Western European Union was revitalised , added Spain and Portugal to its ranks , and produced the Hague platform — which provided for the WEU 's nine members to defend their borders , with nuclear weapons if need be . |
| 29 | The constitutional changes also provided for the legislature to become unicameral , with the abolition of the 40-member Senate ; this provision took effect from the March elections . |
| 30 | The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) . |