Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] provide [art] " in BNC.

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1 And it does so while providing a perfect fit .
2 They were less involved in thinly rationing existing services than is often necessary in social work and more able to concentrate help so as to provide a relatively complete service capable of achieving significant change for some people .
3 a week or so before the interview ask the subordinate to complete an appraisal preparation form so as to provide a starting point for the discussion
4 They are held with their common axis vertical , so as to provide a liquid-level gauge .
5 But in other west European countries a different conclusion is being drawn , namely that European political union , perhaps excluding Britain , is all the more important so as to provide a check on American behaviour , to avoid a unipolar world .
6 Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road .
7 The project is to adapt and revise the existing Cambridge Multisectoral Dynamic Model ( MDM ) so as to provide a quantitative assessment of the costs and benefits for the UK in policies in GG abatement .
8 Their employers will also be interviewed , and other farms will be surveyed so as to provide a point of comparison .
9 Book debts arising from these credit sales were to be assigned in blocks , containing substantial numbers of such debts to the plaintiffs in return for a lump sum , calculated so as to provide a discounting charge to the plaintiffs .
10 ‘ The only direction the Government gives is that BR should operate their passenger railway system so as to provide a public service which is comparable generally with that operated at April 1 1988 , ’ he wrote .
11 Some of the owl species are covered by more than one pellet collection so as to provide an estimate of within species variation , but in some cases the sample is restricted to single pellet collections .
12 In trying to expand legitimate commerce with Africa so as to provide an attractive alternative for both Africans and European traders to slaving , the African Institution proposed spreading information about African products and making communication easier by establishing written versions of African languages .
13 Loans to small farmers have been increased 25 times over ; research and investment has gone into new seeds and fertilizers specially designed for the needs ( and the purses ) of the small farmer ; and maize prices have gone up by 129 per cent so as to provide an incentive .
14 The version of the National Institute model used has been modified , with earlier ESRC support so as to provide an extended modelling of the major financial linkages in the economy .
15 If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union .
16 Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery .
17 This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations .
18 The dye colour chosen should be complementary to the rock colour so as to provide the greatest degree of contrast .
19 In the view of general manager Alan Sinclair , most agents in Britain lean too heavily towards the mass marketing of packages rather than providing a proper travel service .
20 Rather than providing a survey of English Literature , the ten units are aimed to guide students towards acquiring the linguistic and critical awareness which will enable them to read for pleasure , discuss and write about literature .
21 These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one .
22 Rather than providing a rounded history of the revolution , historians with libertarian sympathies have concentrated on various specific themes in the revolution .
23 Until recently the arts have placed too much emphasis on educating non-disabled people rather than providing a medium for communication with each other .
24 ‘ It would seem the people of Middlesbrough are about to lose a valuable free open space for the sake of an enterprise aimed primarily at commercial profit rather than providing a sports facility , ’ she said .
25 Englishness , as a sense of racial or spiritual identity , had come to function as a stabilizing force within the field of professional English studies , rather than providing the authority for a programme of cultural intervention .
26 The whole process of review makes considerable demands ( Bell 1988:231 ) : the aim is to produce internal school development rather than to provide a mechanism for external accountability .
27 In these , interactive videodiscs have been commissioned to address a single , bespoke purpose rather than to provide a product speculatively for a wide range of possible customers .
28 Because tranquillisers simply mask symptoms rather than provide a cure , you may need to seek help to deal with the problem which caused you to need the tablets in the first place .
29 Nelson says he has striven to maintain that balance rather than provide a recording of the set pieces interspersed with insubstantial spoken passages .
30 Such a definition tries to indicate an approach , an attitude , rather than provide a litmus-paper test .
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