Example sentences of "it [vb past] 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 . |