Example sentences of "could provide [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night Conservative Central Office could provide no details on the lease it had bought , other than to say the freehold is owned by the Vauxhall Pension Fund . |
| 2 | Profoundly subordinate , and remote from the few voices of intellectual protest , trade unions could provide no effective challenge to bourgeois hegemony ; rather they were firmly embedded in the mystical pragmatism , rationalism , evolutionism and nationalism of the Victorian epoch . |
| 3 | While he could provide no time scale for this , he did say that he expects the business to grow at 20% per annum . |
| 4 | He could provide no further details , however , because the deal is still being contested by a competitor , which , according to Jenkins , has better political connections than ICL . |
| 5 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 6 | We could provide no hardware for these operations , so that they must be programmed when required out of the basic steps of addition , subtraction , and shifting . |
| 7 | This could provide a clue as to the bombers ' whereabouts between 16 September and the bombing , which killed 10 bandsmen . |
| 8 | The ERM could provide a stronger framework for the maintenance of a stable currency . |
| 9 | If you are looking for an appealing gift that does n't cost the earth , Belinda Thomas could provide a solution . |
| 10 | If disaster strikes and the company is outbid by one of the many expected rivals for its lucrative London franchise — the largest in Britain — Reeves could provide a bolt-hole . |
| 11 | The invitation to the superpowers , if approved at the Central American summit which opened belatedly here yesterday , could provide a way out of the continuing confrontation between the US and the Sandinistas and ensure free elections in Nicaragua in February . |
| 12 | The invitation to the superpowers , if approved at the Central American summit which opened belatedly here yesterday , could provide a way out of the continuing confrontation between the US and the Sandinistas and ensure free elections in Nicaragua in February . |
| 13 | It could provide a clearing-house for information , contributed by national governments . |
| 14 | There was , however , a growing realization in Whitehall that Britain could no longer ‘ go it alone ’ in weapon development , and so she would have to seek some form of closer partnership with the United States , at least , until Europe could provide a viable alternative . |
| 15 | The operating agreement it has set up with the Manchester Metrolink — due to start running along several sections of former BR track today — could provide a good foundation . |
| 16 | In East Suffolk it appeared that the Ipswich branch could provide a nucleus around which another successful enterprise might be constructed . |
| 17 | In particular he thought that the fundamental principles of Aristotle 's philosophy could provide a setting in which to express the revealed truths of Christian faith . |
| 18 | This , we contended , could provide a financial return comparable to that from a new building . |
| 19 | For their part , the problem faced by the proponents of epigenesis was that no one could provide a reasonable explanation of how the embryo was formed . |
| 20 | Reaction diffusion could provide a series of chemical waves generating first a wave with a single peak , followed by one with two peaks , and then one with three peaks . |
| 21 | There are few examinations of the special management problems thrown up by library systems , and the area could provide a fruitful one for future work . |
| 22 | The contamination of land and water by such substances constitutes a pollution hazard that could be reduced by scavenging mechanisms which could provide a means of recycling these substances for industrial and agricultural use . |
| 23 | While ‘ real police work ’ , crime , was almost non-existent , other dogsbody incidents could provide a measure of relief . |
| 24 | In any case , for the locals , a fight with a copper could provide a welcome break in the street corner tedium . |
| 25 | Any of these could provide a trigger to the memory . |
| 26 | Little is known about the causes of the problem , though a new study of receptors on blood platelets has suggested a possible mechanism , and could provide a way of predicting those women who will suffer postnatal depression . |
| 27 | The country could provide a third key area for metals production to add to southern Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | Latin began to regain its status as the medium for elegant communication , science was being relegated to ‘ a small , odd , insignificant band of professionals ’ , while the Royal Society , abandoning the rather splendid hope that scientific language could provide a model for cultural discourse , was becoming influenced by dilettantism , and correspondingly less practical in its aims . |
| 29 | The big bony collar could protect vulnerable-parts of its body , and could provide a useful broad anchor for muscles which supported the heavy head . |
| 30 | These could provide a day striking force for anti-shipping and coastal operations of a more flexible nature than the night-only Wellingtons . |