Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] provide [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He heads up the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau ( phone 071–928 4488 ) , which was set up in 1981 and which provides an independent service for the resolution of disputes between personal insurance policyholders and holders of unit trusts , and companies that belong to the scheme .
2 which constitute a general ethic and which provide the logical ground for his or her action .
3 At outcrop the sandstones are visibly porous and they provide a good aquifer in the Belfast region .
4 I was helped by these witnesses and they provide a useful check on the evidence of the residents .
5 These are aids to enable you to keep to your theme and they provide a logical consistency to the talk .
6 And they provide a welcome cabaret for sunbathers , by playing volleyball , building sandcastles , feeding the sacred cows , and standing on their heads .
7 The specificity of these antagonists has been shown in vitro and they provide a valuable research tool with potential widespread clinical application .
8 Huge thicknesses of limestone in many parts of the world consist almost entirely of coral remains and they provide a detailed chronicle of the development of the group .
9 More than a hundred members of the legislature are simultaneously part of the executive and they provide a large phalanx of obedient support for cabinet initiatives .
10 Mr Lamont added : ‘ Low inflation , tight control of public spending , open markets , competition — these are the principles of the Government 's strategy and they provide the right framework for economic growth .
11 It is unfortunate that the CACs were seen as a political football and they provide an interesting indication of what might possibly happen were all legal services to be funded from local or central government .
12 David had lit two squat candles stuck in pottery sticks , and they provided the only light in the room .
13 The sale to the public of 50 per cent of British Telecom ( BT ) in December 1984 was , at the time , the largest privatisation issue and it provided a major spur to the whole programme .
14 Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon .
15 All kinds of attics have been raided to bring it together and it provides a sharp view of our Royals .
16 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 ) .
17 And it provides a useful explanation for the power house that fuels certain cosmic sources .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 On the other hand , when ο is small enough to satisfy and putting the integral becomes In spectral terms the first integral corresponds to a narrow line of infinite amplitude centred on zero frequency and it provides the mean level or direct component of the signal over all time , .
21 It offers further confirmation for GR outside the solar system and it provides the first evidence , albeit indirect , for gravitational radiation .
22 From the insulation point of view , several thin layers work better than one thick one , and it provides the all-important flexibility for intermediate control which your waterproof duvet jacket could n't even approach .
23 The contradiction shows itself in the phenomena of underconsumption and in periodic crises ; and it provides the main ground for Marx 's expectation of an eventual breakdown of the capitalist system .
24 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 .
25 How could a policy be devised that satisfied the aspirations of the local majority , but which provided the same rights for other nationalities ?
26 Indeed , in another passage in the Ali differentiates the haric elli ( and 40-akce ) and dahil grades of medreses on the basis not of geographical location but of their builders — the 40-akce and medreses being the foundations of the families of pre-Ottoman rulers and [ Ottoman ] vezirs and emirs , the medreses the foundations of the families of Ottoman sultans — method of classification which accords rather better with the actualities of his time ( late sixteenth century ) but which provides no apparent explanation for the terms themselves .
27 The history of the divisions of the kingdom , or Teilungen as they are often known to modern scholars , is a complex one , and it is one that has to be reconstructed from narrative sources which are not concerned to describe those kingdoms , but which provide the relevant information only in passing .
28 There have been extensive criticisms of these tests as they are not predictive of later ability but they provide a rough guideline to any inequalities across the range of developmental areas .
29 The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age .
30 We have not provided any questions specifically based upon these case studies but they provide a valuable base for further questions and exercises for students .
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