Example sentences of "provide for the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inoue reached an agreement on revision which provided for the legal system to be Westernized along approved lines , foreign judges to sit in cases involving non-Japanese nationals , and for tariffs to be raised without the achievement of tariff autonomy . |
| 2 | The so-called Endeavour Accord , which provided for the immediate lifting of the blockade and for the restoration of communications , education , health and power services , was reached after the two sides agreed to set aside the independence question for further talks within the next eight weeks . |
| 3 | It provided for the unimpeded movement of foreign exchange and gold into and out of the country by both Philippine residents and overseas investors , and removed the requirement that foreign exchange earned abroad by Philippine-based commodity and service exporters be sold to Manila-based banks . |
| 4 | The published version of the draft constitution , which provided for the direct election of the president for an eight-year renewable term , and allowed the president to issue emergency decrees , did not include an amendment approved by the Assembly recommending that Saddam Hussein be elected President for life . |
| 5 | The Knesset approved legislation on March 18 which provided for the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
| 7 | The free trade agreement between Canada and the USA ( signed in 1988 and implemented from Jan. 1 , 1989 ) , which provided for the eventual abolition of all customs duties between the USA and Canada after one , five and 10 years , continued to produce disputes between the two countries over specific items during 1990 . |
| 8 | In 1977 , the Labour Health Secretary David Ennals said : ‘ In the present economic climate the Government can do little more than provide for the increasing number of old people , leaving a small margin for improvements in method of treatment . ’ |
| 9 | The opposition also emphasized that the referendum failed to address the issue of the 10,000 US troops stationed in the Panama canal zone and the need to provide for the future security of the canal when it came under complete Panamanian control at the turn of the century . |
| 10 | is the amount of principal charged in the fund revenue accounts to the Loans Fund to provide for the ultimate repayment of loans . |
| 11 | With this Act LEAs were required , for the first time , to provide for the medical inspection of children in elementary schools . |
| 12 | Three motives can perhaps be identified for the creation of special agencies in Britain , although there are of course dangers in taking ostensible motives as real ones , to create an effective separate and accountable ‘ management system ’ to reduce political ‘ interference ’ and to provide for the direct representation of special interests . |
| 13 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 14 | It simply declared that the government 's two aims were , first , ‘ to afford a separate dwelling for every family which desires to have one ’ , and , second , ‘ to provide for the rapid completion of the slum clearance and overcrowding programmes ’ . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman will know , or at least his advisers will know , that regulation 72 was originally introduced in April 1987 to provide for the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases where an error in the determination of entitlement to benefit had been made by an official of the Department . |
| 16 | The system was meant to provide for the quick identification of stolen animals . |
| 17 | Above all , the new positivists portrayed the existing penal process based on such principles as having failed to provide for the proper defence of society against crime — partly through prescientific wrongheadedness , and partly through a misplaced concern with the rights of offenders ( Ferri , 1967 ) . |
| 18 | These are necessary for any business to provide for the proper management of its finances . |
| 19 | The pressure on computer manufacturers to provide for the proper disposal of used computer equipment , which goes beyond dumping it into approved landfills , continues to build from both within and without the industry . |
| 20 | The Opposition do not understand that we have to provide for the full life of the Trident system — for 30 years . |
| 21 | It will also provide for the mutual recognition of diplomas and other professional qualifications throughout the EEA . |
| 22 | Gorbachev 's speech on his election as party leader laid proper emphasis on domestic priorities , but also called for better relations with the ‘ great socialist community ’ , particularly China , and for the continuation of ‘ peaceful , mutually advantageous cooperation ’ with the capitalist world , leading if possible to an agreement that would provide for the complete elimination of nuclear arms and with them the threat of nuclear war . |
| 23 | Accordingly , the draftsman should not provide for the usual disregard of tenant 's improvements in the valuation formula . |
| 24 | Alternatively , the statute may provide for the reasonable practicability of precautions . |
| 25 | Lenin believed that bureaucracy would become redundant after a proletarian revolution which would provide for the instant revocability of every civil servant , the reduction of official salaries and the simplification of control and accounting functions in society . |
| 26 | The Education ( Administrative Provisions ) Act 1907 included , buried among a number of routine administrative changes in the education service , a clause requiring local education authorities to ‘ provide for the medical inspection of schoolchildren ’ and ‘ to make such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the Board of Education for attending to the health and physical condition of children educated in public elementary schools ’ . |
| 27 | The proposals must be acceptable to the people and parliament of the United Kingdom as a whole and because of the land frontier with the Republic of Ireland any political arrangement must recognise and provide for the special relationship between both parts of the island . |
| 28 | However , on April 2 , after talks with the government , strike action was called off , becoming " token action " pending the acceptance of a nine-point agreement providing for the immediate payment of overdue wages and negotiations on the future of the industry . |
| 29 | It is a matter of providing for the right amount of development in a balanced way . |
| 30 | The very existence of a national-territorial framework in the USSR , indeed , far from providing for the peaceful solution of the nationalities question that was originally envisaged , appeared to have led to precisely the opposite result by establishing a form of representation in which sectional interests , denied any other means of expression , could in practice take only the form of ‘ nationalism ’ . |