Example sentences of "have provided a " in BNC.

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1 THE GREEN bandwagon has provided a fillip for many companies concerned with tackling environmental problems .
2 This is seen particularly in the USA , where the very large domestic market has provided a safe haven for many companies of substantial size .
3 The Association can be justly proud of this project which has provided a fitting memorial for Lord Dowding and a long term investment in much needed welfare accommodation .
4 At this point it is difficult not to be drawn back towards the work of Anthony Quinton , who has provided a helpful model of the basic Conservative claims to political wisdom .
5 Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets .
6 The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person .
7 Much earlier still , potassium-argon dating has provided a chronological framework for the early hominid finds in East Africa .
8 The beauty , variety and good nature of these wonderful plants has provided a marvellous educational experience at our village school .
9 Admittedly , in recent years , top coaches such as ‘ Chalkie ’ White at Leicester and Alan Davies at Nottingham has provided a focus and created a centre of excellence which has attracted players but I am not so sure that the same parameters still apply .
10 Since its launch , it has provided a base line for studying global warming .
11 As Jonathan Sher has provided a wide-ranging account of education in rural America it may be sufficient to have two quotations from him — if only as counterpoint to our stereotype from imported films where the lovely young school mistress with an impeccable value system gets the rootin' tootin' cowboy and makes a man of him !
12 In so doing he has provided a book which has been a tremendous help to pastors in every generation since , up to and including the present day .
13 Developed from a vast influx of sand that was carried onto the low rock basement by a rising sea level over the last seven or eight thousand years ( Ritchie , 1985 ) , machair with its essentially base-rich , alkaline , free-draining soils has provided a distinctive landscape element .
14 Leapor has provided a playful but nonetheless idealized history of the house , against which the behaviour of the current owners may be judged .
15 Against this , the nuclear industry has provided a wall of obfuscation — juggling figures to suit its needs , making wildly exaggerated claims for nuclear performance whilst minimizing its costs — and all in the optimistic hope of making the ‘ cheap ’ label stick for as long as possible .
16 It has provided a valuable structure for our thinking and discussions , but , because we have had to focus less on teachers and more on pupils , we have not found it appropriate to map programmes of study directly on to the model .
17 Camp Marash , where perhaps 150,000 Armenians now live , spawned its own gunmen in the 1980s , the ‘ Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ’ , whose assassination campaign against Turkish diplomats has provided a violent epitaph for the calcified remains in the Antelyas ossuary .
18 The value of Moscucci 's approach is that she has provided a detailed picture of the development of gynaecological practice .
19 For some architects , the removal of regulations which both provided guidelines for behaviour and also limited the areas in which competition existed has provided a stimulus since they now feel able to compete more efficiently in a less restricted arena .
20 Indeed , the very specificity of their actions has provided a crucial tool in understanding these systems , as Langley showed with nicotine ( see Chapter 4 ) .
21 But over the years , because of the dictates of bank balance and burgeoning family , we have spent much of our time exploring Scotland ; and our love of game fishing has provided a marvellous excuse for tramping moor and mountain in seach of peace , seclusion , and a few wild brown trout .
22 The tercentenary of the first Bill , passed in 1688 , has provided a stimulus for some earnest reflection .
23 The Strathclyde Elderly Forum has provided a voice for pensioners in the way local services are , or are not , provided .
24 As Chairman since 1974 , he has provided a stable political basis for the Department during this period .
25 This chapter has provided a detailed description on how the ECM operates and the reasons for its existence and growth .
26 In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level .
27 Physically and psychologically crossing the boundary into a different culture has provided a wide range of learning experiences for teachers .
28 Gagné has provided a formula by which we may detect what is missing from a student 's repertoire .
29 Since then the Railway has provided a steam train service EVERY weekend and daily during the summer .
30 But Karl Hufbauer has provided a thoughtful analysis of how , before Germany was unified and chemistry professionalised in the 19th century , German chemists had already coalesced into a national , discipline-orientated community .
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