Example sentences of "and [pers pn] provides a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it provides a cover for racist fantasies such as these comments of primary school teachers — ‘ Southall stinks of curry ’ or ‘ I am always sneezing when I come here . |
| 2 | In that case switching away from equity and into debt offers two potential advantages : it tends to concentrate ownership ( both equity and debt ) into fewer hands that may care more about how the firm is run ; and it provides a clear discipline for managers . |
| 3 | All kinds of attics have been raided to bring it together and it provides a sharp view of our Royals . |
| 4 | And it provides a useful explanation for the power house that fuels certain cosmic sources . |
| 5 | The garden thus supports a dense stand of vegetation ; but it is not a wilderness , neither is it over-run with pests , and it provides a supply of flowers and produce as well as space for relaxation . |
| 6 | The state determines the amount of money individuals have available via direct and indirect taxation as well as social benefits ; it regulates vast areas of our lives , e.g. via health and safety regulations ; it subsidizes foods and housing , for example , and it provides a range of services such as health and education . |
| 7 | These forecasts are an extremely useful tool for management ; sales revenue can be estimated and it provides a means of control by the measurement of actual results against the forecast . |
| 8 | Such an arrangement combines rigidity with flexibility and in addition to its protective function the cuticle determines the form of the insect , its relative impermeability to water reduces desiccation and it provides a firm basis for the attachment of muscles . |
| 9 | Given the prevalence of the commodity record form , this distinction will remain , and it provides a more fruitful way of looking at present contradictions than diagnostic analyses of recorded music into ‘ oral ’ and ‘ literate ’ elements . |
| 10 | Its two main features are that it lifts cooperative R&D ventures from the suspicion that they are illegal per se and puts them under the rule of reason , and it provides a registration system which protects firms from treble damages in the event that they are subsequently deemed to have violated the antitrust statutes . |
| 11 | However , not all teachers found curriculum-specific organization easy to implement or operate , and it provides a good example of a practice commended in the name of ‘ flexibility ’ which makes the work of some teachers less , rather than more , flexible ( a tension which emerges in research elsewhere — Alexander 1988 ) . |
| 12 | Such a system it is argued ensures broad comparability of standards both between courses in the public sector and also with those in the universities ; it provides a guarantee to students , employers , funding bodies and the public at large that courses meet acceptable standards and that those standards are maintained ; it enables institutions submitting course proposals to draw upon a pool of national experience accumulated by the validating committees ; it stimulates academic debate between staff from different institutions about curriculum development ; and it provides a means of identifying and disseminating information about good practice and about innovations in teaching and learning in higher education . |
| 13 | This use assumes the importance of student impressions , but not their absolute truth ; it offers opportunity and incentives for self-development , but no direct penalties ; and it provides a mechanism for students to blow the whistle if problems move outside the range of acceptability . |
| 14 | Its deliberations precede decisions by the competent institutions , and it provides a forum for consultation and discussion between the Council , Commission and the two sides of industry . |
| 15 | It does n't lay down rigid guidelines to be followed , it just suggests erm penalties for average offences committed by first offenders of average means , and it provides a starting point for magistrates to think about . |
| 16 | They seem to have a reasonably clear meaning , and have the merit of linking diverse bits of information together in a coherent pattern , and it provides an explanation for the content of Judaism and Christianity especially , and may have some application for understanding and explaining the ritual developments in Hinduism and Buddhism , as will be illustrated in Chapter 5 . |
| 17 | This is a common feature of the rational expectations hypothesis and it provides an obvious way of testing the hypothesis , for if on estimating equation ( 3.18 ) we found ‘ widely different ’ coefficients on , widely different estimates of α t , then it would suggest that either equation ( 3.6 ) is untrue or expectations are not formed rationally . |
| 18 | The microcomputer is a means to an end and it provides an opportunity for developing search strategies because it is a unique storage medium which releases time for more cognitive skills within the information cycle of selecting , processing and communicating information and it is these educational skills which are valued by teachers and librarians . |