Example sentences of "it provide [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It provided a subtle bridge to the promised land of successful survival : not overtly trumpeting the triumphant rebirth of conspicuous consumption , but nevertheless easing in an almost unconscious separation from raging youth . |
| 2 | The sale to the public of 50 per cent of British Telecom ( BT ) in December 1984 was , at the time , the largest privatisation issue and it provided a major spur to the whole programme . |
| 3 | It provided a fitting accompaniment to the voice of the headmaster . |
| 4 | Though it provides no final answers to our starting questions , it demonstrates the difficulties — of methodology and interpretation — involved in comparative work of this sort , and the need for research designs to take these into account . |
| 5 | More important , although most Marxist thinkers have taken it as a model , it provides no reliable guide to future social transformations . |
| 6 | It provides a useful introduction to a unique institution . |
| 7 | But it provides a powerful aid to the understanding of some of the more baffling political manifestations of our time . |
| 8 | It provides a healthy challenge to the virility of a believer 's conviction to see if he can say succinctly just why it is that he believes Christianity is true . |
| 9 | It provides a good contrast to more elaborate music . |
| 10 | It provides a great contrast to many other parts of England . |
| 11 | In this chapter , it is proposed to consider in detail the radical legislation passed in Michigan , New South Wales and Canada , with a view to assessing whether it provides a better solution to the problem of rape than that envisaged by the Criminal Law Revision Committee in England . |
| 12 | ‘ More than one person at the event was surprised at the comment but it provides a neat balance to the government 's best wishes for my retirement ’ , he says . |
| 13 | Under fairly weak conditions , with only one decision variable , such a ‘ local ’ equilibrium can be shown to exist ( Kramer and Klevorick , 1974 ) , but whether it provides a persuasive resolution to the ‘ majority voting paradox ’ depends on the extent to which choices are limited to small perturbations of the existing situation . |
| 14 | But routine policing in a divided society also constitutes an important substantive topic in its own right , for it provides an additional dimension to the analysis of routine policing , as well as expanding and clarifying our understanding of what divided societies are like . |
| 15 | It provides an open invitation to language learners to use their imagination creatively , express their views openly , and gain greater confidence with the language they need . |
| 16 | Technical though the argument is , it provides an excellent introduction to 18th-century engraving methods and the music printing trade in general . |
| 17 | It provides an important reference to medical history in case of emergency . |
| 18 | It provides the main resistance to the sideways forces of the sail . |