Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] provide a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Any kind of ranching , logging or building provides a ready-made inroad for the farmers to penetrate the most inaccessible parts . |
| 3 | Not only does a story or novel provide a safe distance from the experience but it also enables far deeper knowledge of people than is common in real life . |
| 4 | The reason is that driving provides a unique opportunity to study the nature and development of an extremely complex cognitive skill for which humans have no obvious evolutionary preparation and yet one which enormous numbers of people acquire , often without any formal training . |
| 5 | The combination of a pulse vegetable and pastry provides a substantial supper dish . |
| 6 | It will take time for the resources and expertise to build up , but it is hoped that the will and intention to provide a first-class service now exists . |
| 7 | Through the twin heritage of Christianity and the Renaissance , the ancient world has largely shaped the culture and civilisation of Europe , and its languages , literatures , history , art and archaeology provide a rich and complex field of study . |
| 8 | The revenue from arrack and toddy provided a significant portion of official income , as did the salt monopoly , railway receipts and income from the commutation of an annual labour levy on adult men . |
| 9 | The Lithuanian government 's report to the UN Conference on Environment and Development provides a detailed inventory of the state of the country 's environment . |
| 10 | Does my hon. Friend accept that military research and development provides a significant technological spin-off for civilian use ? |
| 11 | The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use . |
| 12 | It adds features and services on top of the Object Broker and Smalltalk to provide a rapid development environment for portable applications to be shared by workgroups , including a full set of object services and many sample applications , in the hope that this will enable developers to build new application objects quickly . |
| 13 | In the third and fourth years courses in Palaeoecology , Palaeoeconomy , Quaternary Environmental History and Culture and Environment provide a practical and theoretical core around which students may build particular specialist interests in archaeology and the environmental sciences . |
| 14 | Though water is solid for much of the year , the annual thaw in spring and summer provides a wide range of aquatic habitats that support biological activity , and may even allow high productivity for a few weeks each year . |
| 15 | Any successful business person will know that the lack of common vision , sense of direction and purpose provide a tested recipe for failure . |
| 16 | Simplicity is its selling point — piano , guitar and violin provide a beautiful backdrop which allows the lyric and the delivery to breathe , full of life . |
| 17 | The finalists of the 1981/82 and 1982/83 Competitions for the Prince of Wales Award for Industrial Innovation and Production provide a self-selected sample of firms that have been successful in innovation , ie in developing commercially viable new products . |
| 18 | The but -test provides a convenient way of illustrating this ; all the sentences in 2 are pleonastic ; |
| 19 | However , the main underpinning causes of this erosion appear to be methods of management and land tenure rather than erosivity and erodibility ( section 6.2.2 ) , especially as sugar-cane provides a protective cover for most of the year . |
| 20 | For AI provides a wide range of concepts defining the reception , storage , transformation , interpretation , and use of information by information-processing systems . |