Example sentences of "provide [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | A SUSSEX businessman is threatening to sue National Westminster Bank over a reference it provided about a company that collapsed within four weeks of him supplying games worth more than £7,000 . |
2 | It provided for a ban on imports of ozone-gobbling chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , of products containing CFCs , and of products which used CFCs in their manufacturing process . |
3 | The 1965 changes were the first significant constitutional development since 1957 , in that they provided for a review of the purposes and activities of the Community , incorporating also a schedule for a single European Community by 1970 . |
4 | He would recognise the need for utility , the same need that provided for a discreetly-concealed compost and refuse heap in the ancient gardens of his homeland . |
5 | The outcome of their efforts was the treaty of Leake in August 1318 which provided for a meeting of Lancaster and the king . |
6 | The recommendations of the Commission were not entirely adopted , but they did have an impact on the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act 1950 , which provided for a federal budget based on the functions and activities of the government . |
7 | It provided for a minimum but no maximum . |
8 | Miloš and Marasli negotiated a settlement which provided for a Serbian administration , based on a national council of the knezovi of each of the twelve nahijes , who in their own districts would work alongside a Turkish administrator ( müsellim ) . |
9 | It provided for a ‘ union of sovereign republics ’ , not necessarily of socialist ones ; the Congress of People 's Deputies , in December , had agreed not to change the name of the state , but there was still some criticism that the world 's first socialist state had somehow disappeared with the promulgation of a union treaty that made no reference to its social character . |
10 | In comparison the agrarian reform introduced by the Chilean Christian Democrats under Eduardo Frei ( 1964–70 ) provided for a maximum basic unit of only 80 hectares . |
11 | The 1832 act aimed to give the " middle orders " in society political influence and it also provided for a framework within which landed wealth and industrial wealth could adjust their conflicts of interest without resort to force . |
12 | Envisaging a 4 per cent real growth in 1990 , it provided for a 10 per cent reduction in public expenditure , a wage increase for public employees , and the establishment of shops to sell basic items at low cost . |
13 | Instead of the elections earlier promised for April 1990 , it provided for a loya jirga or grand assembly of over 2,000 members ( 10 from each of 216 districts in Afghanistan plus 15 from each of the seven groups based in Peshawar , either elected or chosen by local councils ) which would select first a new government and parliament . |
14 | The electoral rules also provided for a second round poll for county list seats in counties where the first round turnout was less than 50 per cent , and allowed for such a second poll to be valid provided that turnout exceeded 25 per cent . |
15 | In a series of meetings in early 1990 the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh pressed for more rapid progress even than that envisaged by the Aden declaration of Nov. 30 , 1989 , which provided for a formal declaration of a unified Yemen Republic on Nov. 30 , 1990 . |
16 | On Sept. 14 , 1989 , an agreement was eventually initialled which provided for a customs union with the EC whereby industrial goods would flow freely between Andorra and the EC but the EC 's external tariffs would be applied by Andorra to third countries . |
17 | On Aug. 2 Nakayama and his Lao counterpart , Gen. Phoune Sipaseuth , signed three economic aid agreements which provided for a Japanese aid package to Laos totalling 1,636,630,000 yen ( approximately US$11,000,000 ) . |
18 | All were charged under the National Security Law which provided for a maximum penalty of death by hanging . |
19 | It provided for a cut in the top rate of income tax from 68 to 52 per cent , a cut in corporation tax from 50 to 35 per cent ( later amended to 40 per cent ) , and a range of cuts in excise duties on consumer goods . |
20 | It provided for a Supreme and a Constitutional Court , a High Court of Justice , an Economic and Social Council and a National Assembly elected under a multiparty system . |
21 | A 36-day strike by workers in the mining and metallurgical industry over wages and conditions was ended by an agreement on July 23 , 1990 , which provided for a substantial wages and conditions package , payment during the strike and a one-off cash payment . |
22 | Published in August 1990 [ see p. 37807 ] and adopted by a constituent assembly on Dec. 15 , it provided for a multiparty system and direct elections for the presidency in 1991 . |
23 | A new constitution came into effect on Nov. 30 , 1990 , which provided for a multiparty system , direct elections and a free market economy , and dropped the designation People 's Republic , the country 's formal title becoming simply the Republic of Mozambique [ see pp. 37843-44 ] . |
24 | It also provided for a cut of 80,000 in troop numbers . |
25 | A new Constitution was introduced in 1982 which provided for a Governor , an Executive Council and a House of Assembly with seven elected , two ex-officio and two appointed members . |
26 | It provided for a separation of powers , the establishment of a constitutional court and the holding of direct presidential elections . |
27 | It provided for a strong president , to be elected by a National Assembly for a five-year term . |
28 | It provided for a 3.1 per cent increase in overall spending , to a total of F1,330,360 million , against a predicted inflation rate of 2.8 per cent ( US$1.00=F5.6999 as at Sept. 16 , 1991 ) . |
29 | On Sept. 27 parliament finally approved an amended budget which provided for a budget deficit of 26,000,000 million zloty , compared with the 24,300,000 million zloty provisionally agreed with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in August . |
30 | The conflict was only resolved in late November when Spitaels and Deprez , leaders of the PS and PSC respectively , signed a declaration promising to ensure the financing of the measures decided , which provided for a monthly salary increase of BF2,000 from April 1991 and a further rise of 4 per cent from October 1992 . |