Example sentences of "it [verb] provide [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 2 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 3 | But here as elsewhere , though the emphasis on cost and utility was helpful in curbing bureaucratic empire-builders , it failed to provide a full definition of the public service which should be provided . |
| 4 | It gives scope for the hobby-electronics enthusiast to try out his own ideas , and for those who do n't the design as it stands provides a useful power supply unit . |
| 5 | Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets . |
| 6 | Teesside Women has celebrated its first six months of existence , during which it has provided a wide range of meetings and workshops for any women who live , work or have an interest in the area . |
| 7 | It has provided a valuable structure for our thinking and discussions , but , because we have had to focus less on teachers and more on pupils , we have not found it appropriate to map programmes of study directly on to the model . |
| 8 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 9 | While it has never resolved long-standing tensions between discourses on " culture " , " science " , " philanthropy " ( later transmuted to " welfare " ) , and " national efficiency " ( later , " wealth creation " ) , it has provided a cultural domain apparently immune to the ravages caused by their continuing conflicts . |
| 10 | It has provided an essential cement for the whole of the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | While the practical impact of PPB can best be described as marginal , it has provided an important contribution in terms of new ideas for the potentiality of a system of output budgeting . |
| 12 | Gay intellectuals may dismiss essentialism as a bogus utopia , but it has provided the emotional power behind a great deal of gay activism — it is much harder to claim civil rights for a discursive construction . |
| 13 | Erm and then it goes on to say , Please find the enclosed the postal sites available in your area Miriam who 's the Green Party person who 's organizing it has provided the required areas and if you need any more details please do n't hesitate to call me or my secretary . |
| 14 | It has to provide the financial resources for at least a minimum number of services — defence , roads , education , income support , etc. — which are generally deemed to be necessary for the survival of any modern society . |
| 15 | It has to provide an appropriate milieu for the sex act , to act as a channel for the menstrual flow , which is the shedding of the unused lining of the uterus when conception and implantation of the fertilized ovum has not taken place , and also furnish the route by which the baby exits . |
| 16 | Er the county council acknowledges that inward investment is important but because of the nature of the local economy and competition elsewhere , I think we realistically look at it in terms of er it going to provide a small contribution to the local economy . |
| 17 | The fact that it aims to provide a systematic account of time use is what distinguishes it from the literary diary . |
| 18 | It aims to provide an impartial service of information , guidance and support free to all individuals and to make responsible use of the experience so gained . |
| 19 | It aims to provide an informed foundation for the future professional development of fashion and textile designers . |
| 20 | ’ Anyone does , in business , if it helps to provide a better service … ’ |
| 21 | The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy . |
| 22 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 23 | The monkey was eaten up in the trees , and was half hidden by leaves , but it did provide the key shot for the closing sequence of the ‘ Hunting and Escaping ’ programme in The Trials of Life . |
| 24 | Furthermore , although charges are low , standards are going up as hosts recognise that it pays to provide a better service . |
| 25 | Today it continues to provide an evocative setting for theatrical events and festivals . |
| 26 | It had to provide a solid base for review articles and monographs devoted to the exposure of ‘ bourgeois falsifications ’ emanating from the West . |
| 27 | Stability had not provided an increase in the number of occupational pensioners , but it had provided a secure environment for the lucky half of the nation who were covered . |
| 28 | The election of Mamaloni as Prime Minister in March 1989 , following emergence from the February 1989 general election as the largest single party [ see pp. 36465 ; 36526 ] had been widely perceived as the beginning of a new era in that it had provided the first instance of single-party government since independence in 1978 . |
| 29 | However it does provide a useful introduction to the origins of the Alcohol Education Course reported here . |
| 30 | The two-fold classification into more remote and accessible countryside areas is somewhat simplistic , but it does provide a useful guide to understanding spatial differences in rural population change . |