Example sentences of "provides us [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he began to plead , ‘ that sleeping together automatically provides us with a kind of contract ? ’
2 the ordering of the strata ( layers ) of sediment on an archaeological site provides us with a relative dating technique .
3 Some are based upon the effects of seasonal change and are therefore directly related to the orbit of the earth about the sun , which provides us with a useful unit of time , the year .
4 Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask .
5 This lavish book provides us with a full-colour holiday brochure ; a ‘ sightseer 's guide for anyone journeying through this brave new world ’ .
6 Most known nuclear species are in fact unstable , so the laser provides us with a single technique to measure directly shapes , sizes and magnetic moments of many more nuclei than we could study before .
7 I believe that the Christian faith provides us with a unique perspective on matters of political economy which is not con fined to issues of personal honesty and motivation , but which is also related to the basic institutions and goals of our societies .
8 The place of work also provides us with a base for social interaction .
9 Marriage is intended as a bond for life , and Jesus 's appeal to first principles provides us with a high view of marriage , a vivid contrast to liberal teaching then and now .
10 Wittgenstein 's argument provides us with a related objection to Locke 's explanation .
11 Charles Dickens provides us with a vivid account of nineteenth-century urban poverty in such novels as Oliver Twist and Great Expectations .
12 This approach presents us with a particular problem since we must ensure that the representative chosen provides us with a good insight into that political theory .
13 More generally , his theory provides us with a remarkable insight into the nature of the British constitution ; the entire thrust of Oakeshott 's work can be interpreted as laying down a view of the world in which the British constitution with its conventions , understandings , and practices which have evolved through a slow historical process actually makes sense .
14 Pollner , on the other hand , by adding some flesh to the skeletal possibilities implied by Becker , provides us with a working summary of an approach which yields both sociological and social-psychological perspectives :
15 One of the more important possessions of the bishops of St Davids , the palace provides us with a fine example of the way medieval bishops combined the lift of a prelate with that of a country gentleman .
16 It provides us with a world-view — a philosophy to live by .
17 The " prologue " ( chapters 1–11 ) provides us with a general history of man over some thousands of years .
18 Urry ( 1982 : 16–17 ) provides us with a definition of the latter :
19 Thus an account of housing development in North Shields provides us with a background to inter-war and immediate post-war developments in both owner-occupied and council housing , whereas Cramlington 's owner-occupied estates can be thought of as suburbanization produced by developer builders .
20 The use of ‘ industrial land ’ provides us with a bridge to the issues to be considered in Chapter 5 .
21 Massey provides us with a fascinating and persuasive account of how capitalist production has used space .
22 Speech act theory provides us with a means of probing beneath the surface of discourse and establishing the function of what is being said .
23 Pragmatics provides us with a means of relating stretches of language to the physical , social , and psychological world in which they take place .
24 That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ?
25 However , Figure 2.4 provides us with a different ‘ core area ’ , suggesting perhaps there is something in Hall 's ( 1987 ) identification of a larger triangle lying between Toulouse , Copenhagen and Florence .
26 At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market .
27 The Dennis case in the United States provides us with a hint as to how departures from constitutional principle may be explained .
28 It provides us with a map ; it tells us where we are and who we are .
29 I hope that we have proved today that SQL Server is well proven advanced technology , Replication Server enables us to deliver data to who needs it , where they need it , when they need it even if there are system failures , that Navigation Server provides us with a high capacity with a low entry cost , that Omni SQL Gateway enables us to have complete vendor transparency and integrate all information for decision support .
30 The programme provides us with a quaint selection of Sons , Brides and other relations of Frankenstein , all based on some English lady 's knock-off of Rabbi Judah Loewe and the golem of Prague .
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