Example sentences of "provide a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have a high number of volunteer carers at the day centre so that we can provide a 1–1 ratio to our 12 clients , therefore all the needs of the individual client can be met . |
| 2 | If my father ca n't provide a decent standard of living for me on his present salary , then he will just have to start looking for another job . |
| 3 | ‘ What the hon gentleman [ Mr David Blunkett ] has failed to identify is how , in the context of many adverse social , economic , and employment factors , we can reach out and provide a decent health service . |
| 4 | The provision of BITE and ATE facilities can only provide a partial solution to failure analysis and problem rectification . |
| 5 | LIFFE had the advantage of a pre-existing ECU interest rate contract so that the pair could provide a fuller coverage of the ECU interest yield curve . |
| 6 | My guess is that , if business e-mail is managed and retained , it will provide a fuller account of the development of successful ideas . |
| 7 | If an economic power can sufficiently dominate the international economy , it can provide a hegemonic stability which enables other states to co-operate with it and with one another . |
| 8 | Relating levels of capital grants to handicap zones would also provide a better climate for conservation in the uplands . |
| 9 | Most clubs tend to be rather informal arrangements by a group of banks in different countries which agree to support and provide a better customer service by means of reciprocal lending arrangements . |
| 10 | This will provide a better climate for the workers to push for higher wage rates . |
| 11 | As they point out , child-rearing patterns may provide a better indicator of social class than the more conventional criteria . |
| 12 | On the other hand , a broader education may provide a better preparation for some jobs and certain kinds of research . |
| 13 | How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory . |
| 14 | Coupled with such instructions , electronic , time coded diaries could provide a better method for ensuring the quality of diary records . |
| 15 | Which means we can provide a better service . |
| 16 | The new arrangements might , therefore , provide a better balance of skills and better opportunities for employing unskilled local people . |
| 17 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 18 | To propose that the separation of assessment from provision might provide a better incentive to create a needs-led service , than professional judgement , is to show a degree of confusion about the origins of our present predicament ( shortage of resource ; bureaucratization , etc. ) bordering on the incredible . |
| 19 | improving the quality and consistency of the monitoring of planning applications/policies by branches so that we can provide a better picture to the Welsh Office and politicians of environmentally damaging development trends ; and |
| 20 | How can we provide a better service ? ’ |
| 21 | The results of the research project will hopefully provide a better understanding of the functioning of the estate agency sector as a whole and will reveal forms of organisational change that take place within a small-firm sector subject to rapid corporate invasion , paying particular attention to the way in which changes and impacts vary between localities . |
| 22 | This more theoretical aspect should provide a better basis for urban designers and transport planners considering personal security issues . |
| 23 | Such data could provide a better understanding of how pneumonia fits into the course of the chronic diseases it often accompanies , and thereby form a basis for therapeutic decision-making . |
| 24 | This is plausible enough , although Bo Gräslund has recently contended that a watercourse near Stockholm once bore the name too , and that a battle there would provide a better historical context for the Sigtuna coinage and Cnut 's claim to rule some of the Swedes . |
| 25 | Because here you have an opportunity to go launch yourself onto a self employed erm platform and can not provide a better platform for that and I would say that would n't I he 's thinking . |
| 26 | He says that the Government want to privatise prisons — but this wo n't provide a better service . |
| 27 | The new company promised it would provide a better service to the North , including a news service specifically for South Durham , Teesside and North Yorkshire . |
| 28 | A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 . |
| 29 | ‘ These service industries can provide a better short-term financial return but real sustainable growth must be founded on manufacturing industries which add real value to raw materials by combining them together to form a product for which people are prepared to pay a premium , ’ he added . |
| 30 | The experience here suggests that a publicly owned operator can provide a better and more efficient service than private enterprise , given the right conditions . |