Example sentences of "a [noun sg] provide a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked undercover in Germany and Northern Ireland , but a lieutenant provided a devastating insight when he filed a final report on Carlton , 37 . |
| 2 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 3 | Having spent a healthy proportion of his personal wealth in a bid to provide a Premier Division platform for the club , figures show the public are not responding through the Dens Park turnstiles . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 's government has decided not to give £6 million to a plan to build a cyclotron , a machine providing a controversial cancer therapy , at St Thomas 's Hospital in London . |
| 5 | Aoun 's departure into exile was made possible on Aug. 26 when the National Assembly approved a law providing a general amnesty for crimes committed during the civil war ( 1975-90 ) . |
| 6 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |
| 7 | There is a need to provide a single point of reference ( an individual guide or facilitator or a recognised team ) for young people and their families throughout transition . |
| 8 | The purchase of this equipment also ensured that we did not need to convert a room to provide a separate Archive Library in future building development . |
| 9 | A festival provides a powerful model for a new beginning , a rite of spring . |
| 10 | Although interest rates are set to jump after reinvestment in the US and on new plant , earnings of 17.3p , against 17.7p , a share provide a fair base for the two successor companies . |
| 11 | Although interest rates are set to jump after reinvestment in the US and on new plant , earnings of 17.3p , against 17.7p , a share provide a fair base for the two successor companies . |
| 12 | And second — that the BBC has a role to provide a comprehensive news and information service of richness and originality . |
| 13 | It is not very easy to judge when you are two-thirds of the way through a turn , so turning round a buoy provides a good reference point . |
| 14 | Such a bank provides a major service to other participants by giving the market depth , continuity and ability to handle customers ' requirements . |
| 15 | ON the other hand such a situation provides a welcome opportunity for innovation and dispenses with the need to follow any hide bound tradition . |
| 16 | They have decided that the ‘ Jesus of history ’ is too elusive a being to provide a sure foundation for the ‘ Christ of faith ’ . |
| 17 | And with health care a provincial jurisdiction , there is no way to force a province to provide a specified level or form of benefit . |
| 18 | Where property is demised together with the use of the lift the landlord will be under a duty to provide a working lift ( De Meza v Ve-Ri-Best Manufacturing Co Ltd ( 1952 ) 160 EG 364 ) . |
| 19 | The models of teaching it commended were expected to be influential , and the Authority saw itself as having a duty to provide a clear lead on the direction and character of primary classroom practice . |
| 20 | The current range of design drafting and production engineering programs could be integrated into a scheme to provide a refinement-centred system . |
| 21 | The presidential offices nestle behind this and a balcony provides a fine platform from which the public can be addressed . |
| 22 | Would not such a visit provide a glorious opportunity to point out that the assisted places scheme — among other major educational advances — would be abolished under a Labour Government , thereby denying many bright children in the Duchy the opportunity of a first-rate education ? |
| 23 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |
| 24 | For the Profitboss it is an opportunity to provide a new challenge to Steve Lockhart , the graduate trainee in Personnel who 's won the confidence of the line management in engineering . |
| 25 | For many people it is rather demoralising to finish a long way behind the leaders all the time and so pursuit racing is an attempt to provide a handicapping system . |
| 26 | His study is not an attempt to provide a general explanation of achievement by students in the university sector of higher education . |
| 27 | Below are realistic estimates of costs for full-board accommodation in University-controlled Halls of Residence and the private sector in an attempt to provide a realistic assessment of what you may incur in each of these accommodation sectors . |
| 28 | This proposed an enlarged Article 19 which concerns ‘ specific measures to assist agricultural holdings in environmentally sensitive farming areas ’ and is an attempt to provide a clear basis for supporting whatever type of farming is necessary to conserve designated areas ‘ to protect the countryside , including traditional landscapes , and wildlife . ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes an intervention provides a useful impetus to try to articulate what they are doing , and in the process , see things more clearly for themselves . |
| 30 | Although born out of a concern for the economic decline of Britain , such an emphasis provides a sad irony in the 1980s with massive youth unemployment . |