Example sentences of "and provided a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clergy were the only source of education apart from the ‘ hedge school ’ teachers ( Dowling 1968 ) and provided a significant moral and organizational resource . |
| 2 | As a symbolic act it was of much importance since it offered the prospect of a framework for a wider Anglo-Irish settlement and provided a hope of genuine political involvement for the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland , not in a failed local assembly but through their co-religionists in the south . |
| 3 | In Gardening From Which ? trials in 1985 , which was a fairly wet summer , petunia Resisto Mixed did particularly well and provided a colourful display until late September . |
| 4 | ‘ The cup suits us in so many ways and at least it has permitted some stability and provided a focal point in the absence of a league challenge . ’ |
| 5 | The move won Gordon the heavyweight Open title and provided a much-needed lift for a British men 's team who were inevitably overshadowed by the success of the women . |
| 6 | Part-time farmers occupied just under half the 250,000 holdings in Bavaria and provided a more stable component in the farming community than their full-time colleagues . |
| 7 | The examination syllabus set new standards in the teaching of drama to young people and provided a spectacular contrast to the out-of-date , circumscribed speech and drama examinations of the Royal Academy , Guildhall and Trinity Colleges . |
| 8 | The two men maintained contact and Frank Francis-Francis often visited Henley and provided a seat for the Artisans which was given , in turn , to the Club in 1971 . |
| 9 | The local Senussi tribesmen were bitterly anti-Italian and provided a sheep to roast as a gesture of welcome . |
| 10 | Raistrick 's work had been published and provided a valuable starting point . |
| 11 | A light breeze came off the sea and provided a little relief from the afternoon heat . |
| 12 | The tram carried a mobile generator for the power and provided a stable platform for the television cameras . |
| 13 | The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 , repealed all former constitutions of borough councils and provided a standard formula for the constitution of all municipal corporations , namely a council elected by the burgesses or citizens , the aldermen elected by the councillors ( the aldermen being one-third of the number of councillors ) and a Mayor elected by the aldermen and councillors . |
| 14 | There were probably other factors at work , which have since slipped automatically into place , but the needs expressed above were evident , being expressed by a range of people , and provided a justification for investing time and resource in trying to establish a partnership with industry . |
| 15 | Once the research had established the physics of these losses — and provided a great deal of general information or the physics of plasmas — Culham returned to the development of toroidal systems . |
| 16 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
| 17 | Winter snow used to be stored here from nearby drifts and provided a supply of caked ice throughout the following summer for the wealthy inhabitants and the hotels in Funchal . |
| 18 | A square of nine giant palm trees , close-planted in three rows of three , centred the yard and provided a shady canopy of fronds against a weak but bright sun . |
| 19 | ‘ That was entirely unregulated and provided a field day for the sex and violence merchants . ’ |
| 20 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 21 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 22 | Like the River Solent , the Wantsum enjoyed a double tide and provided a natural , sheltered harbour , although later silting of the Wantsum makes present appearances deceptive . |
| 23 | The package included new interpretations and maps derived from BGS open-file archives and provided a geological framework to help companies to plan surveys and prepare bids . |
| 24 | It included new interpretations and maps derived from BGS open-file archives and provided a geological framework to help companies to plan surveys and prepare bids . |
| 25 | Added to the Right-On readers , they effectively expanded the core group and provided a viable number of buyers . |
| 26 | Fishing , which centuries of experience had made into a great food-supplying industry , and which was blessed by the exceptionally rich fishing grounds of the North Sea and the North Atlantic , also employed ships and provided a livelihood for thousands of men . |
| 27 | Because John Smith 's period of office had been reasonably successful , the Company put the colony under military discipline , which stabilized the situation and provided a more efficient system of government than trying to transplant a peculiarly English way of running things . |
| 28 | They developed a theory of the state which was a long way removed from the rational calculative tendencies of utilitarianism and provided a justification for the role of the state in the spheres of economic life and welfare which went beyond what has usually been countenanced within Liberalism , whether based on utilitarianism or Lockean theory . |
| 29 | This placated their fears that national insurance would replace and destroy them and provided a ready-made and cheap machinery of administration . |
| 30 | The Copernican system , Bruno believed , fitted perfectly in such a universe and provided a model for other planetary systems extending to infinity . |