Example sentences of "it [verb] provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it did provide a stepping stone for some significant figures . |
| 2 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 3 | The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy . |
| 4 | Now , Muze magazine may not have been a high profile organisation but it did provide a much needed platform for the flourishing Manchester rock scene . |
| 5 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 6 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 7 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 8 | Its justification was primarily military — a guarantee of aid in the face of any future German aggression and , for Britain , the beginnings of an alliance against the Soviet Union — though it did provide for bilateral economic assistance and cooperation , and , indeed , a standing economic committee was established . |
| 9 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 10 | However , it did provide some valuable indications of what to expect in the races ahead . |
| 11 | The monkey was eaten up in the trees , and was half hidden by leaves , but it did provide the key shot for the closing sequence of the ‘ Hunting and Escaping ’ programme in The Trials of Life . |
| 12 | Unfortunately a concrete path , provided by the builders , had to be broken up ; but it did provide a hardcore base for the paving . |
| 13 | It does not explain all the peculiar initial conditions of the big bang ; but it does provide some rationale for conditions that otherwise have to be accepted as given . |
| 14 | It does provide much of the mechanicals for the Brava pick-ups , now labelled Vauxhall not Bedford , and doubtless will contribute in no small measure to Vauxhall 's new Frontera 4 × 4 due out in a month or two . |
| 15 | However , it does provide a unique guide to Leonardo 's inner self . |
| 16 | Such action does not determine what economic activities should be undertaken , but it does provide a framework for discovering and solving problems common to the community as a whole . |
| 17 | However it does provide a useful introduction to the origins of the Alcohol Education Course reported here . |
| 18 | After all , it does provide 135 bhp as opposed to only 114 bhp and yet gives better fuel economy . |
| 19 | Such a plan will inevitably be modified , but it does provide a framework on which to build . |
| 20 | Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding . |
| 21 | This does not necessarily ensure wide application of the research but it does provide various ‘ models ’ of development in different environments which increase the likelihood that , by identifying with one or another model , other schools adopt and adapt the work to suit their particular needs . |
| 22 | Mammal Ecology by M. J. Delany does not set out specifically to connect ecology with evolution but it does provide a great deal of information packed into its 150 pages . |
| 23 | Having examined Christianity , he recognizes that if it is true ( as it claims to be and as the third level promises to show how it can be seen to be ) , it does provide the necessary answer . |
| 24 | This is misleading because counselling is more than this , but it does provide one valuable element of the process . |
| 25 | It may be of use to compare the regional groupings of brooch types with those areas which are revealed as high consumers of imported luxury goods ; whilst such a correlation tells us nothing about the mode of production of the brooches , it does provide some articulation to the distribution maps . |
| 26 | Although the test has not been standardised , it does provide the possibility of numerical scoring on a scale from 0 to 173 . |
| 27 | In fact , the employers ' central confederation ( BDA ) does not engage in collective bargaining and , although it does provide information and guidance to its affiliates via its collective bargaining coordination committee , its pronouncements on wages take the form of non-binding recommendations . |
| 28 | This creates major difficulties for the examination of the effects of the change envisaged , but it does provide an explanation for the dramatic changes in policies which occur , most notably , in our case , the movement towards signing . |
| 29 | It does not aim to tell them how to use a British public telephone — what it does provide is a wealth of thought-provoking information about modern Britain and the British ! |
| 30 | It does provide an effective way for partners ‘ to accrue capital ’ . |