Example sentences of "[noun] to provide a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Profitboss it is an opportunity to provide a new challenge to Steve Lockhart , the graduate trainee in Personnel who 's won the confidence of the line management in engineering . |
| 2 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 3 | In the 1970s the Department of Education and Science pinned its hopes on the APU to provide a general measure of the achievement of children at schools and , implicitly , changes in standards over time . |
| 4 | Senior Corporate Manager David Peebles said the purpose of the course was to ensure that staff ‘ have the communication and human relation skills to provide a high quality of service . ’ |
| 5 | AFTER a pre-tax loss rising last year from £4.7 million to £41.1 million , Clyde Petroleum yesterday asked its shareholders to provide a further £34.1 million through a one-for-four rights issue . |
| 6 | They meet under the auspices of the National Association of Coordinators of Community Languages in order to develop their expertise : a number of colleagues within this body have advocated the setting up of a recognised DES course to provide a further exchange of ideas as well as more official guidance to team leaders and coordinators . |
| 7 | Any infringement of the owner 's exclusive rights will be resisted , and for this reason , if no other , attempts to provide a planned resolution of the conflict between farming and the environment will prove difficult . |
| 8 | Attempts to provide a similar scheme related to earnings , but as part of state provision , resulted in the 1975 Social Security Pension Act 1975 , which came into operation in 1978 . |
| 9 | Thus , attempts to provide a uniform level of social welfare in rural areas means centralisation of services in schooling , health and housing , which gives rise to migration away from isolated areas . |
| 10 | The first presents an overview of the main demographic trends in Britain during this century and attempts to provide a considered overview of these population changes . |
| 11 | It seeks to explore the effect of situation , ethnicity , life style and sex on the speech of these young people , and attempts to provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of psychological , sociological and grammatical determinants of code-switching behaviour . |
| 12 | We will place a statutory obligation on local authorities to provide a comprehensive youth service in partnership with the voluntary sector , and we will invest in leisure and recreation facilities . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister has been pressing the Saudis to provide a pre-election boost by increasing the Al Yamamah commitment through an inter-governmental agreement . |
| 14 | As well as using the grant to provide a new cafe and shop , the association is also planning to stage a new exhibition at Thiepval using the latest state-of-the-art audio-visual technology to tell the Ulstermen 's story . |
| 15 | Now Scottish Natural Heritage will pay crofters in an area north of Uig — the bird 's last stronghold on Skye — in an effort to re-establish traditional management of enclosed croft grasslands to provide a safe habitat for the corncrakes . |
| 16 | This service , available regardless of amount or UK mainland location , completes Chlor-Chemicals ' plans to provide a total business package for solvent users . |
| 17 | Norwich Union 's aim is at all times to provide a first class standard of service . |
| 18 | Moreover , Europe was still recovering from wartime devastation , and had achieved neither political coherence nor a sound enough military/ industrial base to provide a viable alternative to the North American connection . |
| 19 | As did the Harter Act , COGSA also required that carriers exercise due diligence to provide a seaworthy ship . |
| 20 | Inverclyde Waterfront Developments Ltd was seeking permission to provide a 300-berth marina , 100-bed hotel and 150 houses on a prime site at Cardwell Bay on the waterfront there . |
| 21 | TRANMERE won their long fight to provide a better standard of competition for their reserves today when they were admitted to the Pontins League . |
| 22 | It had gone into the communications field , using its own satellites to provide a watertight method for directors talking about vital topics over the phone from , say , Frankfurt to Washington , supplying the coded systems . |
| 23 | With population-based contracts , ie contracts to provide a defined population with its full requirements for a specified range of services , the incentive to the provider is to treat as few patients as possible , to undersupply and to reduce the level of service to the minimum specified in the contract . |
| 24 | The competition , sponsored by Fina plc , challenges children to create a picture of their local environment using paint , crayons , collage or photography to provide a visual record of how their neighbourhoods shape up environmentally . |
| 25 | However , so few of the possible quadgrams occur in the LOB ( and of those found , 70% only occur once ) that it would appear that the LOB corpus is not a large enough sample of text to provide a reliable quadgram model . |
| 26 | The texts were selected by the corpus compilers to provide a wide representation of text types to allow research on a broad range of aspects of the language . |
| 27 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 28 | THE European parliament is at odds with the Commission and member states over the draft directive covering working conditions for employees sent to another EC country under contract to provide a specific service . |
| 29 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 30 | A thin cream called red bole is then painted over the gesso to provide a rich base on which to lay the leaf The area to be covered is then dampened with a very diluted solution of rabbit skin glue , before the gold leaf is carefully positioned and laid down . |