Example sentences of "[verb] to provide a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of the trials has been to obtain raw data which must be assembled and evaluated to provide a basis for comparison . |
| 2 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 3 | In spite of these restrictions , it is our intention to continue to provide a service for older people . |
| 4 | Typical questions relating to this need would be : has the education authority enough funds to continue to provide a place for all school-age pupils ? |
| 5 | Offices were established at the destination points to provide a service for the international traveller . |
| 6 | The essays in this book do not amount to a programme : but they are intended to provide a springboard for one . |
| 7 | The tribunals were intended to provide a way for rural residents to settle disputes without legal formalities . |
| 8 | Commissioned by the Henry Moore Foundation , it is intended to provide a centre for the display , study , research and promotion of sculpture of all periods and nationalities . |
| 9 | The agreements , which have still to be firmed up , are intended to provide a framework for the companies to work together on integrating personal computers and phones , and to enable real-time data conferencing over regular telephone lines , and videoconferencing over ISDN . |
| 10 | This line of reasoning is intended to provide a means for felicitous plural and singular pronominal reference under appropriate circumstances . |
| 11 | SmartStream is intended to provide a means for mainframe users to move to client-server arrangements without abandoning their existing systems . |
| 12 | SmartStream is intended to provide a means for mainframe users to move to client/server arrangements without abandoning their existing systems . |
| 13 | It is intended to provide a tool for policy-makers both within and outside industry . |
| 14 | Area Child Protection Committees ( ACPCs ) , based upon the boundaries of local authorities , are intended to provide a forum for developing , monitoring and reviewing child protection policies in a particular locality . |
| 15 | The association of local spaces can be further developed to provide a basis for the study of the motions of moving parts within a system . |
| 16 | While Tshwete was in Australia and New Zealand following the Cricket World Cup , a leading ANC sports activist , Mr Mluleki George , who also chairs the NOSC ( the National Olympic and Sports Congress , recognised by most Commonwealth governments as the voice of non-Olympic sports in South Africa ) , wrote letters to the governing bodies and the authorities in Australia , New Zealand , France and England demanding they ban or discourage the planned tours to and from the Republic , arguing that the development programme about to be launched by the SARFU was only a smokescreen designed to provide a cover for the international aspirations of the white rugby establishment . |
| 17 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 18 | Furthermore the threat of losing independence by means of a hostile merger ( ie a takeover ) is claimed to provide a spur for management to strive for greater efficiency . |
| 19 | ‘ And , Mr Oak , ’ she continued in a clear voice , ‘ I 'm so poor that my aunt has to provide a home for me . |
| 20 | FATHER 'S LOVE Lucy 's disability helped convince Mr Stringer that he should strive to provide a home for the mentally handi-capped which he would be happy to see his own daughter live in . |
| 21 | He claims that the last shelf time period recorded on a book is highly predictive of future use , and gives a description of a simple method by which such information is examined and analysed to provide a basis for the weeding of stock . |
| 22 | Sometimes we do not even need to provide a substitute for a word or phrase which has already been said . |
| 23 | The Headmistress at St Mary 's , Geraldine Keegan said she was delighted that her school had been selected to provide a delegate for the Brussels event . |
| 24 | The development of a spatially related designing system has been seen to provide a basis for the understanding and evaluation of most engineering assembly problems . |
| 25 | In the chapters of this part of the book I have sought to provide a rationale for such an approach . |
| 26 | This paper has been written to provide a background for students ( of all ages ) seeking to interpret the results of a shore survey or planning a rocky shore project . |
| 27 | But the Buid also view themselves as constituting a sort of animal ultimately destined to provide a feast for a class of spirits after death . |
| 28 | The literature on electronic publishing does not appear to provide a framework for studying the subject . |
| 29 | A letter by King Areus of Sparta to the Jews , which would date the discovery of the family connection in the first half of the third century B.C. , was probably forged to provide a background for the authentic correspondence of the second century ( cf. 12.7 ) . |
| 30 | The experience with the one-man cars 1–13 and the rebuilt Jubilee cars 761–2 , would be used to provide a specification for any new trams . |