Example sentences of "provide some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now the indications are that they are likely to provide some funding though we have n't had that formally in writing yet .
2 Parents often feel that their children should not have everything that they ask for and try to provide some restraint .
3 ‘ Our job is to provide some activities so that people can then choose whether or not they want to be involved .
4 Back in Britain , men were called to arms ; everyone was issued with a gas mask ; sandbags were provided to protect specified buildings and to provide some shelter against the expected air attacks , and provision of Air Raid Shelters was hastened .
5 The link was put in place to provide some stability at a time of political turbulence in the British colony .
6 It was clear that the employers proposed a plan to generate more immediate investment in the sector to provide some stability and to ensure that quality training would be provided .
7 Work experience for teachers will help them to plan work experience for students as an integrated part of the curriculum rather than an add-on to provide some relief for the teacher but of little advantage to the student and an inconvenience for business .
8 to provide some relief from enemy pressure .
9 Generally speaking , this is deemed to provide some clue as to one 's destiny .
10 In trying to provide some answers to these questions I shall demonstrate the ways in which anti-racist and anti-sexist policies frequently mirror each other in rhetoric and analysis .
11 The research aims to provide some answers to this difficult problem and suggest possible future research .
12 The object of the study is to provide some answers to such questions and to identify specific measures which might assist in the achievement of certain national goals , such as preventing further loss of broadleaved woods .
13 The present law relies on a combination of delay and the stigma of ‘ fault ’ in order to provide some disincentive to premature or ill-judged divorce .
14 While clearly not capable of resourcing an anti-racist perspective on women 's poverty , it may none the less be possible to provide some insights into experiences which Black and white mothers share .
15 Each of our models continues to provide some insights , although none is wholly adequate .
16 The Group noted that M Pullan had already started to provide some elements of user support on databases , documentation and network problems .
17 I shall be pleased to give way if the Minister wishes to provide some reassurance on the matter , but it appears that he does not wish to do so .
18 Not only will Germany continue to provide some support for their exports , but neither of the two economies spent and borrowed with the abandon of the English-speaking world in the 1980s .
19 The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation .
20 In this chapter I shall set out all those questions which are most frequently asked by prospective patients , and which have not already been covered in Chapter 1 ; and in Chapter 3 , by giving details of the progress of one particular case , I shall endeavour to provide some idea of what to expect during a typical regression therapy session .
21 However , where comparisons can be made with alternative sources of data , and where it is possible to provide some evidence to counter the possibility that the findings are due purely to ‘ data collection ’ effects , we can perhaps arrive at some tentative conclusions .
22 If the X question states that a ‘ Minister may intervene if he thinks it necessary or desirable , ’ then the only way in which the courts can maintain control is to require the minister to provide some evidence to justify his action .
23 There was the Nationalist Party , a weak organization for which local priests had to provide some kind of legitimation .
24 On the stock market , BAe shares responded to the news — and reports that a consortium of international banks were about to provide some kind of support package to help to finance the massive Saudi Arabian defence order — with a 27p jump to 553p on brisk turnover .
25 The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it .
26 It would obviously be possible to provide some kind of assistance here .
27 None the less , the sense of a need to provide some kind of discourse on literary quality is evident from the earliest issues of the journal .
28 You will almost certainly be asked to provide some kind of identification when you go to the hire shop — and do n't be surprised if you have your photograph taken !
29 Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation .
30 It is necessary to provide some flexibility with relative inheritance : for example , specified fonts may be unavailable or too big/small to read .
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