Example sentences of "it [vb past] to provide [art] " in BNC.

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1 More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy .
2 But here as elsewhere , though the emphasis on cost and utility was helpful in curbing bureaucratic empire-builders , it failed to provide a full definition of the public service which should be provided .
3 A critical examination of the Soviet past , as in Andreeva 's letter , was a necessary part of perestroika in that it helped to provide a better , clearer picture of the way forward .
4 It seemed to provide an envoi to the policies and economics of consensus , which had coincided with decades of calamitous financial and international decline .
5 When the Department of Industry announced its " Microcomputers in schools " , scheme in 1980 , it seemed to Provide an opportunity for Promoting the use of the microcomputer in school libraries and through that further to promote the school library .
6 Beyond the cottage it widened to provide a rough , gravelled turning , backed by a forty-foot bank of shingle behind which Dalgliesh could hear the crash and suck of the tide .
7 It had to provide a solid base for review articles and monographs devoted to the exposure of ‘ bourgeois falsifications ’ emanating from the West .
8 The medieval choir school also survived — though renamed by Henry VIII ‘ the Kynges Newe Grammer Scole of Seynt Marie Oterey ’ — and like many provincial grammar schools throughout the land it continued to provide a modest education of the kind which gave to the youthful Shakespeare his ‘ small Latin , and less Greek ’ .
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