Example sentences of "provide [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Wyndham Lewis kindly provided me with a similar introduction to James Joyce .
2 The work ranged from small debt collection to very large acquisitions and disposals for the four main divisions of the company , and provided me with a great variety of work which was predominantly commercial .
3 THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED .
4 And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it .
5 Core holdings in large blue-chip companies that are infrequently traded provide them with a solid investor base and reduces share price volatility , whilst active trading and analysis of smaller company shares adds to the liquidity and marketability of these securities , and ensures accurate pricing .
6 Many bodies have stated that the grant aid procedures and the application form provide them with a ready basis for an effective budgeting system .
7 Furthermore , the idea of network impinges fairly closely on the notion of sociolinguistic functions , as we have presented this in chapter 2 , because it is a fundamental postulate of network analysis that individuals create personal communities that provide them with a meaningful framework for solving the problems of their day-to-day existence ( Mitchell 1986 : 74 ) .
8 Former Glamorgan player John Derrick struck an unbeaten 30 of 21 balls to see Wales safely home and provide them with the perfect tonic for their Nat West Trophy game with Sussex at Hove next Tuesday .
9 When we provide theory , we provide them with the underlying rationale for methodology in general .
10 The lady remembered my visit well , said she had been concerned about me and confided that , to provide me with a good meal , she had walked the five miles into Lochinver and back to buy fresh fish .
11 The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . )
12 You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress .
13 The Chelonians milled about confusedly in the sudden darkness , their optical aids realigning frantically to provide them with a coherent picture of their environment .
14 It aims to train students in what used to be called " close reading " and to provide them with a critical awareness of the ideological , socio-cultural and historical constraints on the perception of what constitutes " literature " .
15 Ice-climbers have often wondered when someone is going to provide them with a decent training facility .
16 Mindful of the quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family which had marred his uncle 's coronation , Napoleon III may have felt it unwise to provide them with a similar occasion for bad manners .
17 Olson suggests that these organizations are sometimes artificial creations required by governments to provide them with a representative body they can negotiate with .
18 Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course .
19 The aim was that as a greater number of the population became eligible for national insurance benefits , fewer people would be dependent on the safety net of national assistance to provide them with a minimum income .
20 Because cats , like people , are breeding too fast there has been a concerted effort to provide them with a contraceptive pill similar to the one we use .
21 And finally in terms of prod productivity each of our users have varied requirements , but we need to provide them with a consistent solution .
22 It is the responsibility of all candidates to find out their results and of unsuccessful candidates to request their course director or senior course tutor to provide them with a written record of the decision which the Board of Examiners has taken about their progress .
23 I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success .
24 Special schools are not therefore designed to isolate mentally handicapped children but to provide them with the specific form of education they require .
25 But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths .
26 For the course seeks not only to prepare graduates for immediate employment in a range of positions within publishing but also to provide them with the intellectual equipment to become in the longer term the managers , the decision-makers and strategy-formulators .
27 The publication by an LEA of a scheme such as Solihull 's is implicitly intended to signal this newly emphasized responsibility to teachers , to persuade them to accept it and to provide them with an agreed agenda for the review .
28 Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce .
29 The network of family , village and regional ties , the zemlyachestva , which ‘ peasant-proletarians ’ imported into the city provided them with a social nexus which at least limited the disorientation and anomie imputed to them .
30 The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members .
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