Example sentences of "to provide [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to the failure of a number of attempts to provide foundations for certain knowledge of empirical facts , many epistemologists have tried to defend various forms of fallibilism . |
| 2 | Money is being raised at the moment to provide houses for those who come out first . |
| 3 | Will the Minister use his powers to enable local authorities to provide houses for homeless people , whether through local authorities or housing associations , jobs for redundant construction workers , and new business contracts for the building companies which are going bankrupt ? |
| 4 | This repealed the obligation placed on LEAs by the 1976 Education Act to provide plans for comprehensive reorganisation . |
| 5 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 6 | There are arguments about what is " the best " , and how far one goes in meeting present taste before developing it ; there are arguments about paternalism and mandarin or upper-class standards ; but no children 's librarian would accept a purely passive supply function ; all would agree that one hopes to provide opportunities for wider exploration and the growth of informed taste , whatever it turns out to be . |
| 7 | This degree course has been designed to provide opportunities for advanced study in key areas of Spanish , Spanish-American and Portuguese literature and culture . |
| 8 | It will be emphasised to employers that the purpose of the exercise is to provide opportunities for young people to learn about and through work and not to perform tasks which would otherwise be done by paid workers . |
| 9 | And apart from this exacerbation of old quarrels at the level of official and formal relations , religion lost some of its hold on the masses as it did less and less to provide channels for social protest . |
| 10 | While third party developments such as the Hercules graphics cards helped relieve this situation they complicated the life of the software developers who had to provide drivers for each and every variation . |
| 11 | Its spokesman , David White , told The Art Newspaper , that it had ear-marked the notional £20 million to be raised from the sale of the pictures for modernising students ' rooms , putting in lifts and so on , but that a large proportion would be invested to provide funds for future use . |
| 12 | We are looking for state-backed policies to provide funds for those areas of production where potential exists for a swift expansion of exports . |
| 13 | The term ‘ mixed race ’ should therefore not be used by administrators or professionals , and should be discouraged among people who want to provide homes for black children . |
| 14 | In one or two cases there were even sharp reductions in staffs which had been inflated by patronage and the need to provide posts for young members of the ruling class . |
| 15 | The Overseas Research Students ( ORS ) Awards Scheme was set up by the secretary of state for education and science in 1979 to provide awards for partial remission of tuition fees to overseas post-graduate students of outstanding merit and research potential . |
| 16 | He was always ready to provide plants for scientific purposes , and his friend Nathaniel Ward [ q.v. ] warmly acknowledged the help he received from Loddiges in developing Wardian cases . |
| 17 | Despite attempts to recommend local materials , the per capita costs of the scheme were also high and there seems to have been a certain ‘ willing suspension of disbelief ’ about the local capacity to provide replacements for all the goodies originally supplied by UNICEF . |
| 18 | It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies . |
| 19 | But Catholic priests said Mr Fallon had a duty to provide places for Catholic children under the 1944 Education Act . |
| 20 | Bush was more cautious about such a possibility , but accepted her view that the UK must not become the only European NATO member to provide bases for air-launched nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | Many geographers have never been deeply concerned with ultimate objectives of social character , and some would sincerely regard efforts to provide directives for human action as presumptuous and arrogant . |
| 22 | What kinds of classroom interaction , then , are most likely to provide conditions for effective learning ? |
| 23 | All this could be done by giving a life estate to the head of the family ; with the remainder to his sons successively in tail-male , with remainder to the daughters in tail , subject to a rentcharge in favour of the life tenant 's widow upon his death , and in favour of any other persons desired to be benefited ; and with power to the trustees to create long leases in the property for the purpose of charging the lease in order to provide portions for younger sons and daughters who did not inherit the land . |
| 24 | The guidelines issued to the National Heritage Memorial Fund allowed it to give grants , not only for the purchase of outstanding buildings , land and works of artistic and historic interest , but also to provide endowments for major houses threatened with sale . |
| 25 | The Housing Act ( 1937 ) began a modest scheme to provide loans for low-cost public housing projects . |
| 26 | UI says that to be selected as a reference technology a company will now have to promise to provide snapshots for early access , follow established licensing and conformance guidelines which do not include pricing , and adhere to evolution requirements . |
| 27 | It permitted , but did not , as Wilson had intended , require local authorities to provide meals for needy schoolchildren . |
| 28 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 29 | The promoters of the Alexandra Palace show , Kennedy Street Enterprises , replied to fans ' accusations this week , claiming that they had done everything possible to provide tickets for genuine applicants . |
| 30 | The Highlanders were said to live on a diet of children , while the prince 's quartermaster put in a well-timed but no doubt inflated demand for the town to provide billets for 13,000 foot and , a more accurate figure , 300 horse . |