Example sentences of "[noun] provide a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " open-ended " item allows respondents the freedom to provide an answer in whatever form they choose . |
| 2 | Loughborough provided a scoring winger for both sides — Dawson for England and Anderson in reply . |
| 3 | The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information about future events and to discuss problems of mutual interest . |
| 4 | I buy a packet of Silk Cut and carefully smoke a cigarette — making sure that I 'm actually enjoying it , not just doing it out of habit — while managing to fit in a couple of large and very refreshing G&Ts before the flight 's called and there 's just time for a single knocked-back whisky to provide a bit of nominal support for the Scottish export drive . |
| 5 | At a time of crisis when teenagers and their parents ( or brothers and sisters ) are at loggerheads , angry and resentful , contracts provide an opportunity for the family to take stock and to break through vicious circles of retribution and unreason . |
| 6 | It is only in the specific circumstances defined by the statute ( when it is either impossible or inappropriate to obtain or to rely on breath specimens ) that it is either necessary or permissible to require the driver to provide a specimen of blood or urine . |
| 7 | But it does not follow that there may not be a difference in the procedures which are appropriate on the one hand in requiring the driver to provide a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) where it is obligatory for him to do so because one of the circumstances specified in section 7(3) has arisen , and on the other hand in informing the driver of his right under section 8(2) to claim that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol should be replaced by a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) . |
| 8 | However , the College would be happy to help organise lunches for particular years or specialised groups provided an A. S. M. Member takes the initiative . |
| 9 | Her very personal ‘ aid programme ’ has been to take knitting machines , yarn and teaching skills to provide a means of earning a living for people trapped by the present poverty of their country . |
| 10 | The close relation between acid and duodenal ulceration was recognised in the early part of this century , and until recently , attempts to provide a cure for peptic ulcer disease have focused almost exclusively on the development of drugs and surgical procedures that inhibit or abolish gastric secretion , even though contemporary findings show that only 20–50% of DU patients actually secrete excessive amounts of acid . |
| 11 | The history of Western Marxism amounts to a history of attempts to provide a means for transcending the condition of alienation and achieving that lost totality , not through irony or a reified homogeneous temporality , as in Lukács ' novel , but , according to his formulation of Marxism , through history and class consciousness . |
| 12 | This is a relic of the attempts to provide an income for the voluntary hospitals in the 1930's . |
| 13 | The research attempts to provide an answer to this question by means of a blanket survey of all manufacturing establishments in the industry with a follow-up in depth interview survey of selected case studies . |
| 14 | The introduction of the national curriculum and new modes of assessment provide a context for the study . |
| 15 | The Guidance identifies three main types of family centre : the therapeutic centre where skilled workers carry out intensive casework with families ; the community centre where local voluntary groups provide a neighbourhood meeting place for particular activities and the self-help centre often run on co-operative lines to provide an informal support service for families ( Guidance , vol 2 , para 3.20 ) . |
| 16 | He wants to restore it to its original castellated glory to provide a home for wife Annie and two sons and realise a 15-year dream . |
| 17 | ‘ The course provided an arena for learning , for expressing doubts and exchanging experiences , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Hence the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act of 1970 expects local authorities to provide a range and scale of services that in practice they rarely can . |
| 19 | This part of the Act imposes a general duty on local authorities to provide a range of services for children in need within their locality . |
| 20 | A letter was despatched to the secretary there asking the County Hospital authorities to provide an ambulance if , in future , it were necessary for such a case to be sent to St. Peter 's . |
| 21 | Based mainly on research evidence that some schools are more effective than others in promoting the progress and development of their pupils , School Development Plans provide a mechanism to link the planning of improvements with the financial and staff development planning of the school as a whole . |
| 22 | The conception of the inner city as internal demands a policy response ; external conceptions provide a rationale , even an excuse , for inactivity , a justification of neglect and hostility . |
| 23 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 24 | Fellow airmen from 70 Squadron RAF provided a guard of honour for the former pupil of St Mary 's College , Wallasey . |
| 25 | The wider areas of open space to the south and east of the reserve provide a mosaic of habitats , coastal grassland , scrub , bush and rabbit-grazed patches . |
| 26 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 27 | The magistrates ' courts provided an opportunity to do this while simultaneously bolstering flagging markets for solicitors , who were feeling the economic pinch of a depressed property and commercial market . |
| 28 | So far as the availability of judicial review ( remedies ) is concerned , the distinction was used in cases decided after Ridge to provide a basis for denying , for example , that disciplinary decisions of prison governors ( as opposed to boards of prison visitors ) were subject to judicial review . |
| 29 | When one gives the learner feedback on her ability these skills provide a framework for assessment . |
| 30 | It does seem that the inspection provided a dimension in the appraisal process which otherwise would have been lacking . |