Example sentences of "[pers pn] provide the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Within the development zone new incentives need to be devised both to attract high calibre general practitioners and other primary health care workers to the inner city and to encourage them to provide the right kind of services .
2 They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building .
3 The French have gone a long way towards providing a road and water supply and members of the ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation are studying in Budapest , Vienna and Germany to obtain qualifications in medicine , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and other skills which will enable them to provide the day-to-day care of the residents in the future .
4 ‘ Kindly remember that I provide the legal know-how to protect you and your — friends , ’ Adam said calmly .
5 Office Management I provides the theoretical framework to allow students to respond to direction and to operate within the necessary constraints of the organisational environment .
6 What can be offered to help them provide the expected level of care and to feel more secure in their parenting role ?
7 She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands .
8 And so , parents that may be listening , it sounds as if it 's up to you to provide the basic training to enable the schools to do their part .
9 ‘ What I meant when I said you were an asset , Matt , is that you provide the sexual fillip which Cadogan 's would otherwise lack . ’
10 Because babies grow inside their mother , because she is usually the person to feed and physically care for them , and because she provides the emotional anchorage which makes exploration possible , she has enormous importance .
11 In an age when personal monarchy was the motivating force of government , and kings were straining every nerve to increase their power and authority , she provides the unique spectacle of an adult reigning monarch who did not want to reign .
12 There 's absolutely no reason why , if we provide the correct habitat , they should n't move down and we could have otters in the Thames region perhaps within the next 10 years .
13 The business problem in that area has always been to ensure that we provide the maximum amount of service with our products , and that our production costs are as low as anybody else 's .
14 David had lit two squat candles stuck in pottery sticks , and they provided the only light in the room .
15 They provided the high command in wartime , bringing their own retinue to serve in the royal army , and the senior personnel for enforcing order in the countryside .
16 For many young academics they provide the first step in the ladder of publications , now an essential requisite for career advancement .
17 Retailers , from department stores to supermarkets to newsagents , realise that ultimately it is their consumers who have the purchasing power and freedom of choice , and if they provide the right shopping conditions , with a bright and clean atmosphere , the customer will be enticed into the shop more regularly .
18 Mr Lamont added : ‘ Low inflation , tight control of public spending , open markets , competition — these are the principles of the Government 's strategy and they provide the right framework for economic growth .
19 Despite their importance , for much of the period for which they provide the chief narrative , the Decem Libri Historiarum are not strictly speaking contemporary .
20 Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon .
21 It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina .
22 And as Nick Clark reports it provided the perfect platform for the Falcons from RAF Brize Norton .
23 It provided the perfect sanctuary and Mountbatten was always there with time and interest to talk and advise .
24 To have lost the 1987 election could be forgiven ; it provided the final catalyst for Labour 's long-drawn out policy reform .
25 Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off .
26 Not simply was a market the only effective mechanism for the exchange of commodities and services in a large-scale modern society ; it was also the foundation of democracy , as it provided the economic independence that made a dictatorship impossible .
27 For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done .
28 Yes , if it provided the additional flexibility
29 By raising Prussia from the position of a second-rate State to that of at least a kind of great power , and by achieving this with very limited physical resources , he provided the supreme illustration of what might be accomplished by an intelligent and dedicated ruler inspired by enlightened ideas .
30 Francis identifies the stages of the SI narrative as a chronological trajectory corresponding to ( i ) the Experimental Laboratory period ; ( ii ) the detonator period ( which refers to Debord 's boast that he provided the explosive machinery that ignited in May 1968 ) ; ( iii ) the Fallout period after the SI disbanded in 1972 .
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