Example sentences of "[prep] provide [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After providing a brief overview of the chronology of urban unrest during the 1980s , the chapter concentrates on two main themes . |
| 2 | He rose to chief of intelligence in Panama 's G-2 in 1970 after providing the populist dictator , General Omar Torrijos , the support to defeat a coup . |
| 3 | The idea of providing a decent service to a customer is probably dead , so we might all try to look for the protection of the might , majesty , dominion and power of the English Common Law . |
| 4 | Whatever their achievements in stimulating Zionist beliefs , and their powerful impact upon individual pupils , the farming centres failed in their immediate objective of providing a loyal and dedicated labour force for the emerging Palestine . |
| 5 | It is envisaged that MAS specialists should have the capability of providing a total service to a client . |
| 6 | The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information . |
| 7 | There remains now only the problem of providing a suitable Pulse Width Modulating ( PWM ) signal to control the on-off periods of the switching device to begin getting our power unit into shape . |
| 8 | And an allocation of £800,000 has recently been made towards the cost of providing a 40-bed unit for the elderly at Aberdare general hospital . |
| 9 | Estimation of unit costs is always extremely difficult , particularly when the aim is , quite properly , to assess the basic cost of providing a necessary service , rather than the average discretionary expenditure on all service provision . |
| 10 | Allowing direct access for clients to the information system , without the support of an adviser , arouses in some advice workers the fear that the CAB could become an impersonal information centre , when the importance of providing a personal , listening service as well as information , has been so clearly recognised . |
| 11 | The Board made it clear that ‘ if a School Board is resolved upon , the arrangement by which the Company now pay rates upon their cottage property will be terminated , and that the rates will have to be paid by the tenants themselves : On the other hand , if the Board is not decided upon , the Company will combine with the remaining £4,000 of assessment in the Parish with a view of providing a small Infant School at Old Bradwell . |
| 12 | If the system is totally dependent on the successful operation of a single main processor then the cost of providing a second processor for redundancy should be identified . |
| 13 | Here , instead of the normal Roman practice of providing a gradual fall of the water channel — Vitruvius stated that a fall of 6 inches for every 100 feet was considered desirable — the water was carried under pressure across the broad valley . |
| 14 | During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , the humanist " revolution " in educational ideas led to a privileging of classical literature as the means of providing a liberal education , although this was later considerably transformed into a narrow disciplinary process tied to the maintenance of social distinctions . |
| 15 | Endorsement of this type has the potential of providing a useful service in areas such as student exchanges . |
| 16 | Instead of providing a legal framework , the Government have blocked the legislation that is on offer to them . |
| 17 | Hayek wishes to do so because he is not simply a traditionalist and is seeking to harness his insights to the task of providing a modern , rational reconstruction of liberalism . |
| 18 | One is the practical one of providing a separate part for the harpsichordist so that the two instrumentalists would not have to look over her shoulder . |
| 19 | The proposals made for guaranteed work by the House of Commons Select Committee on Employment are also relevant to any scheme of providing a bridging mechanism between training on the one hand and permanent employment in the labour market on the other ( Special Employment Measures and the Long-term Unemployed , House of Commons Paper 99 , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education . |
| 21 | Some 300 watercolours by artists such as Cotman , Cox , Turner , Gainsborough , Girtin and Constable are at the Royal Academy until 11 April with the aim of providing a new overview of the medium in Britain during the years of its highest achievement . |
| 22 | That is the best way of providing a good environment in which businesses can flourish . |
| 23 | For the ‘ Third World ’ was invented in the context of the 1955 Bandung Conference , on the model of the French Revolution 's ‘ Third Estate ’ , and incorporating equally revolutionary ideals of providing a radical alternative to the hegemonic capitalist-socialist power blocks of the post-war period . |
| 24 | Graphs and charts are really important as a means of providing a simple , clear guide to progress . |
| 25 | If , however , you are using an agency capable of providing a reasonable service — even if it is not a ‘ full service agency ’ — you are likely to meet , at one time or another , an account group , consisting of at least five or six people , who will be doing between them all the tasks involved in creating and placing your advertising . |
| 26 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 27 | Similarly , resistance based on work groups is also usually informal , although it shows a degree of organisation in the sense of providing a collective response even if not a pre-planned one . |
| 28 | If our much smaller , and much more numerous local museums are also to come in from the cold , the only route open to them is the one of providing a stimulating and memorable learning experience . |
| 29 | We will establish a new agency to carry out all social security war pensions work with the aim of providing a better , more efficient service to war pensioners and war widows . |
| 30 | There would inevitably also be a fear among some NHS professionals that their hard-won services would be dissipated into a ‘ support only ’ service and that accurate diagnosis and treatment would be sacrificed in favour of providing a better living environment . |