Example sentences of "provided a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 2 | They have provided a fascinating insigt into the origins of the Jewish and Christian faiths . |
| 3 | However , Taylor and Walton ( 1971 ) have provided a sociological framework of analysis . |
| 4 | But Lloyd , who has provided a one-to-one coach in Stephen Shaw , as well as the best hotels , the best tournaments , the best of everything for Delgado , says ‘ It 's purely up to Jamie . |
| 5 | Eadmer has provided a striking picture of him at the meeting between the pope and William of Warelwast in 1103 , sitting silent while the royal messenger held forth and the pope replied with words which were received with enthusiasm by the bystanders as a declaration that no layman could ever be a doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold . |
| 6 | As Jonathan Sher has provided a wide-ranging account of education in rural America it may be sufficient to have two quotations from him — if only as counterpoint to our stereotype from imported films where the lovely young school mistress with an impeccable value system gets the rootin' tootin' cowboy and makes a man of him ! |
| 7 | Developed from a vast influx of sand that was carried onto the low rock basement by a rising sea level over the last seven or eight thousand years ( Ritchie , 1985 ) , machair with its essentially base-rich , alkaline , free-draining soils has provided a distinctive landscape element . |
| 8 | ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ may have provided a holding position in the first days after his election but it has no life left in it . |
| 9 | But Karl Hufbauer has provided a thoughtful analysis of how , before Germany was unified and chemistry professionalised in the 19th century , German chemists had already coalesced into a national , discipline-orientated community . |
| 10 | It was , of course , immediately adopted by the extreme left , which had , indeed , long provided a powerful component of evolutionary thinking . |
| 11 | The 1981 Education Act ( implemented I April 1983 ) has provided a powerful spur to the formation of such groups and services . |
| 12 | That uncertainty , acknowledged by Watkins L.J. , should , it is submitted , have provided a powerful reason for the Court of Appeal to allow the applicant to have a judgment by the court on the unresolved points , particularly as they had been previously argued before but had been unanswered by the court . |
| 13 | Ragnar Rommetveit has provided a powerful challenge to this positivist tendency ( 1982 ) . |
| 14 | IBM Corp has now shipped 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 since it announced the product on March 31 and claims it has exceeded its initial unit sales projection — ‘ We 're well on track to surpass many industry expectations , ’ it said , but Reuter notes that IBM has previously said its expects to sell ‘ millions ’ of copies of OS/2 this year but has never provided a specific forecast . |
| 15 | As we saw earlier ( Ch.7 ) , wool taxation to raise war funds had provided a protective tariff for the textile industry , and the war had damaged one of the main Continental cloth-manufacturing centres in Flanders . |
| 16 | Williams and Moorey ( 1989 ) have provided a convincing rebuttal of this notion with their description of its use with clients who have a mental handicap . |
| 17 | The Rubber Bishops meanwhile provided a refreshing change . |
| 18 | Camp Marash , where perhaps 150,000 Armenians now live , spawned its own gunmen in the 1980s , the ‘ Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ’ , whose assassination campaign against Turkish diplomats has provided a violent epitaph for the calcified remains in the Antelyas ossuary . |
| 19 | That Germany had also provided a comprehensive state insurance for sickness , accident , disability and unemployment for its people from an early date was thought by some to be implicated in that country 's economic success . |
| 20 | Although a number of publications and theses have added greatly to our knowledge of the issue , none has provided a comprehensive study of the adoption of tariffs . |
| 21 | Spiders have long provided a classic example of sexual dimorphism in body size , and provide an ideal opportunity for empirical study . |
| 22 | An artist with delusions of grandeur and a virtual airbrush to match had provided a holographic picture of a ruined temple on the flipside . |
| 23 | The station has even provided a Liverpudlian euphemism for coitus interruptus — ‘ to get off at Edge Hill ’ — Edge Hill being the last station before Liverpool Lime Street . |
| 24 | The models employed in this Lecture have provided a useful framework to illustrate some of the long-run effects of taxation and debt policy on the rate of capital accumulation , and its consequences for the general equilibrium of the economy . |
| 25 | This declaration proved to be premature , although a recommendation that there should be a longer term for the candidate stage towards full party membership must have provided a useful mechanism for sifting the wheat from the chaff . |
| 26 | Peter Hutchinson ( 1983 , p.vi ) has noted that ‘ the study of literary play deserves far more detailed attention than it has yet aroused ’ and has provided a useful introduction to the subject in Games authors play ( ibid . ) . |
| 27 | Frans Birrer has provided a useful summary of the main categories ( Birrer 1985 : 104 ) , which exist in combination as well as in pure form ) |
| 28 | Nor is there any doubt that the resilience of the small retailing sector has provided a useful form of controlled distribution for larger manufactures . |
| 29 | The Wage Council provided a useful basis for pay determination , especially in industries where there is little collective bargaining . |
| 30 | Robert Green 's card of 1752 is more explicit , leaving nothing to chance ; but he had a reason , for not only was he in business as a furnishing undertaker but also provided a wholesale service to the trade in general . |