Example sentences of "provide some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the Nationalist Party , a weak organization for which local priests had to provide some kind of legitimation . |
| 2 | On the stock market , BAe shares responded to the news — and reports that a consortium of international banks were about to provide some kind of support package to help to finance the massive Saudi Arabian defence order — with a 27p jump to 553p on brisk turnover . |
| 3 | The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it . |
| 4 | It would obviously be possible to provide some kind of assistance here . |
| 5 | None the less , the sense of a need to provide some kind of discourse on literary quality is evident from the earliest issues of the journal . |
| 6 | You will almost certainly be asked to provide some kind of identification when you go to the hire shop — and do n't be surprised if you have your photograph taken ! |
| 7 | Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation . |
| 8 | It 's always in a working capacity , but the difference being that we note down the results of our work , document it very carefully so that we can provide some kind of a lesson learnt for a future operation . |
| 9 | During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant . |
| 10 | It is , surely , a way of giving legitimacy to what we say or do , of providing some kind of backing or security . |
| 11 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 12 | In the context of this chapter , however , it is particularly important to deal with the corporatist perspective on the politics of organised interests since it provides some kind of challenge to the pluralist perspective ( even though pluralism and corporatism share a number of basic assumptions ) , and it fleshes out elements of the left critique of pluralism ( even though much corporatist theory is hostile to a Marxist theory of the capitalist state ) . |
| 13 | Neuroleptic medication provides some kind of protective effect against relapse . |