Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] provide " in BNC.

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1 Compendia of information can not solve all the problems associated with mapping out one 's life , but they do provide basic and practical information .
2 As a first attempt the results are no doubt crude , but they do provide a basis for further refinement .
3 erm but they do provide a regular and safe income .
4 The first four counts are of limited use to the historian for they do not list individual households , but they do provide population figures on a township basis .
5 The gross statistics of variation do not , of course , tell us exactly when ( or why ) these changes of footing happened , but they do provide evidence that they took place .
6 Training schemes do not guarantee a job , but they do provide necessary skills . ’
7 The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children .
8 It does not explain all the peculiar initial conditions of the big bang ; but it does provide some rationale for conditions that otherwise have to be accepted as given .
9 Such action does not determine what economic activities should be undertaken , but it does provide a framework for discovering and solving problems common to the community as a whole .
10 Such a plan will inevitably be modified , but it does provide a framework on which to build .
11 This does not necessarily ensure wide application of the research but it does provide various ‘ models ’ of development in different environments which increase the likelihood that , by identifying with one or another model , other schools adopt and adapt the work to suit their particular needs .
12 Mammal Ecology by M. J. Delany does not set out specifically to connect ecology with evolution but it does provide a great deal of information packed into its 150 pages .
13 This is misleading because counselling is more than this , but it does provide one valuable element of the process .
14 This creates major difficulties for the examination of the effects of the change envisaged , but it does provide an explanation for the dramatic changes in policies which occur , most notably , in our case , the movement towards signing .
15 The international community is not per se owed a duty of obedience to the claims of some of its members , but it does provide a framework for the articulation of claims and for cohesion in response .
16 The two-fold classification into more remote and accessible countryside areas is somewhat simplistic , but it does provide a useful guide to understanding spatial differences in rural population change .
17 Often found on good daysacks , the waist strap does n't take weight like a hip belt but it does provide extra stability .
18 This development has its opponents , but it does provide a way in which mathematics can become more meaningful to some of the children studying it .
19 It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't .
20 But it does provide a framework to which we are all working , spreads out the major publications and pieces of campaigning work , and allows all those in the organisation to know the overall timetable being pursued .
21 Of course , this does not resolve the issue of inequality , but it does provide a mechanism through which individuals can focus their view of an acceptable ‘ trade-off ’ between redistribution ( equity ) and efficiency .
22 Cell Interactions in Atherosclerosis does not address all aspects of its broad title , but it does provide an interesting collection of articles focused largely on morphological studies of atherosclerosis , transplant arteriopathy , and experimental atherosclerosis in the rabbit .
23 Again this is not a view which has been endorsed by all , but it does provide an explanation as to why the government 's proposed reforms are largely confined to measures concerned with speeding up the investigatory process and making existing policy more efficient .
24 This is tedious but it does provide an absolute calibration on which other devices can be based .
25 No it does n't solve all their problems , but it does provide some extras and for the vast majority of disabled people , it 's much appreciated .
26 It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades .
27 Now , Muze magazine may not have been a high profile organisation but it did provide a much needed platform for the flourishing Manchester rock scene .
28 I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open .
29 The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding .
30 The monkey was eaten up in the trees , and was half hidden by leaves , but it did provide the key shot for the closing sequence of the ‘ Hunting and Escaping ’ programme in The Trials of Life .
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