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

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1 The first investigation of a large representative sample of step-children confirmed that the documented economic and social problems created by divorce were considerably alleviated by remarriage , especially where this provided a step-mother ( Ferri , 1984 ) .
2 Normally Luce could talk about her life , her thoughts and feelings , her hopes and aspirations , with cheerful loquacity , even adding a touch of embroidery where necessary to provide a little more colour and excitement .
3 Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines .
4 after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase .
5 The Ministry says it has a duty to buy from overseas if that provides the best value for money for the taxpayer .
6 Do n't be afraid of using a code-driven package if this provides the fine control you need .
7 I should like to put the contrary view that an understanding of theory is of primary importance because this provides a general perspective on the nature of language which influences pedagogic principles and indicates how different descriptions might be adapted for classroom use .
8 Equally , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) of those who had taken temporary jobs because these provided a source of training had entered the labour market only in the past I 2 months .
9 To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory .
10 Since this provides the opportunity for the child to score correctly 50 per cent of the time simply by guessing , each grammatical contrast is presented in blocks of four items and the child is required to get all four items correct to pass on any block .
11 Within that period there will continue to be stated periods for exchange of pleadings and other interlocutory steps since these provide a guide to parties and a means by which they can keep one another up to schedule .
12 Whilst this provided an approach adopted in subsequent cases , the limitations of such a general principle have , more recently , been recognized in judgments of the House of Lords and Privy Council : see , for example , Governors of Peabody Donation Fund v. Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Co .
13 The basic procedure was to identify selected features , such as the length of sentences or the incidence of subordination , and to see whether these provided a measure of maturation in writing .
14 and below the EC average , as that provides the sort of background against which businesses can expand and export abroad .
15 The later instruments will fit with wiring modifications but need the later type alternator fitted at the same time as this provides the signal to drive the rev counter .
16 A solution to this can be to cut down the skeg , as this provides the resistance at the back of the board .
17 Perhaps the most important is stamina as this provides the staying power and the ability to keep on going without feeling you 're going to collapse .
18 We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view .
19 The stress on history as paramount provides a straightforward indication as to where such arguments are coming from : not Marxism in general as a political practice , but the Hegelian Marxism of the philosophical tradition initiated by Lukács ' History and Class Consciousness ( 1923 ) .
20 Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments .
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