Example sentences of "[conj] it provides a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although the general rule that costs should follow the event does not apply in the Family Division ( RSC Order 62 , r3(5) ) the Court of Appeal decided in Gojkovic v Gojkovic ( 1991 ) The Times , 1 May that it provides a useful starting point .
2 Simply by the virtue of the fact that it provides a varied selection of business case studies with video , Business Assignments is a remarkable set of materials .
3 It has often been said — indeed I have said it myself — that the importance of the central dogma is that it provides a molecular explanation for Weismann 's theory of the independence of germ line and soma .
4 One other great advantage of the plate is that it provides a wide surface upon which to dry out .
5 The particular relevance of that paper is that it provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on special needs and the under-fives , and a major theme pervading the NARE conference talk was the need to evolve policies of collective responsibility in the development of services to meet special needs of children under five , given the context that pre-school education is not statutory .
6 Who considers our housing stock adequate and f that it provides a satisfactory environment to give facilities to parents ?
7 The innovation of the present paper is that it provides a formal model of union wage and membership determination where membership of the union is not compulsory .
8 The core engine of the product has been designed for scaleability , flexibility , robustness , speed and CICS compatibility as well as integration with Micro Focus Dialog System and non-CICS applications , the company says , adding that it provides a high level of data integrity and security either on stand-alone workstations or as part of a client-server environment , and is available in both production and development versions .
9 The core engine of the product has been designed for scalability , flexibility , robustness , speed and CICS compatibility as well as integration with Micro Focus Dialog System and non-CICS applications , the company says , adding that it provides a high level of data integrity and security either on stand-alone workstations or as part of a client-server environment , and is available in both production and development versions .
10 It can also be seen that it provides a deeper cause than that supplied by ordinary , everyday reasoning .
11 A valuable feature of our case is that it provides a detailed profile of the natural history of EATCL over a period of 12 months from initial presentation to the introduction of chemotherapy .
12 … perhaps the main value of the Library-College movement is that it provides a speculative model for use in our thinking .
13 And a wet carpet still does the job it was meant for , which also includes the fact that it provides a soft base on which to unhook fish , preventing to a great extent the removal of mucous and damage to scales and fins .
14 Its importance is that it provides a potential link from Heriot-Watt University campus to the residential areas of Currie and Juniper Green .
15 The advantage of this arrangement is that it provides an efficient means of defence against predators .
16 If we are tempted to choose conventionalism on the ground that it provides an acceptable strategy for reaching the most efficient balance between certainty and flexibility , then we should choose pragmatism , which seems a far better strategy , instead .
17 The Atapeuerca skeletal sample is large by the standards of any other Middle Pleistocene hominid site , so it provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the internal morphological and metrical variation of what is assumed the represent a penecontemporaneous sample of individuals of different ages and sex .
18 All kinds of attics have been raided to bring it together and it provides a sharp view of our Royals .
19 However , not all teachers found curriculum-specific organization easy to implement or operate , and it provides a good example of a practice commended in the name of ‘ flexibility ’ which makes the work of some teachers less , rather than more , flexible ( a tension which emerges in research elsewhere — Alexander 1988 ) .
20 And it provides a useful explanation for the power house that fuels certain cosmic sources .
21 Such an arrangement combines rigidity with flexibility and in addition to its protective function the cuticle determines the form of the insect , its relative impermeability to water reduces desiccation and it provides a firm basis for the attachment of muscles .
22 In that case switching away from equity and into debt offers two potential advantages : it tends to concentrate ownership ( both equity and debt ) into fewer hands that may care more about how the firm is run ; and it provides a clear discipline for managers .
23 This is a common feature of the rational expectations hypothesis and it provides an obvious way of testing the hypothesis , for if on estimating equation ( 3.18 ) we found ‘ widely different ’ coefficients on , widely different estimates of α t , then it would suggest that either equation ( 3.6 ) is untrue or expectations are not formed rationally .
24 But it provides a powerful aid to the understanding of some of the more baffling political manifestations of our time .
25 This is a bit of a mouthful , but it provides a systematic way of describing relationships as positive or negative ; it reminds us , for example , whether young people are more or less likely to contemplate breaking the law .
26 ‘ More than one person at the event was surprised at the comment but it provides a neat balance to the government 's best wishes for my retirement ’ , he says .
27 Earlier in this chapter it was argued that the use of DCF was justified on pragmatic as well as theoretical grounds because it provides a single index of value and avoids the necessity for comparing streams of cash flows .
28 The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time .
29 My preference is the white worm culture because it provides a large range of worm sizes for fry feeding .
30 Yet it is a model which has some force because it provides a neat conceptualisation of relationships between those designated managers and those not .
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