Example sentences of "provided [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Record manufacturers formerly pleased themselves as to the degree of attenuation or enhancement used and in the early '50s , an amplifier might have several switched replay positions whilst another provided plug-in networks to suit records and cartridges . |
| 2 | The prospect of good wages and modest gains provided ample inducement to serve ; but there were no doubt other motives as well . |
| 3 | The Report of the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Industrial Population of Scotland ( Cmd. 8731 , 1917 ) provided ample justification for a new initiative , in its revelations of the wretched housing conditions inherited from earlier years . |
| 4 | Some Johannesburg hotels provided armed escorts for their guests after a spate of muggings recently . |
| 5 | The survey also showed that 69 colleges provided full-time courses for students with severe learning difficulties , when barely a handful had done so five years before . |
| 6 | The Smithsonian Institute provided eight rolls of microfilm which contained nearly all the blueprints of the aircraft and its components . |
| 7 | Mainland ice flowing from east to west at the time of the glacial maximum was diverted northwards around Harris , whereas the smaller , isolated hills on North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist provided little restriction to the regional movements . |
| 8 | Clementine fearfully spun the protective web of catholicism , the family and middle-class values around her unenterprising existence , and provided little alternative for her son but to look to his father for inspiration and guidance . |
| 9 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 10 | She served restaurant meals , laying the table with dire artistry , wrapping mousses of fish in fillets of different fish , lapped by puddles of brightly hued sauces , and she provided each guest with his own little plateful of miniature carrots , mange-tout peas and tiny potatoes . |
| 11 | On June 30 Russian President Boris Yeltsin had made remarks suggesting that negotiations over the disputed islands could make progress only if Japan provided economic aid to Russia . |
| 12 | It provided acute services for a neighbouring district without a DGH , and this already represented one-quarter of its business . |
| 13 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 14 | SORAFOM became OCORA and provided technical assistance to Francophone stations , for which it long remained a major source of material . |
| 15 | Hence , in conjunction with a local architect who provided technical advice and who prepared drawings for statutory approvals , a new scheme was developed . |
| 16 | Teesside operations put up £2,000 — half the cost of the special portable pump and generator — and provided technical advice . |
| 17 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 18 | The buy-out , for an undisclosed sum , was funded by venture capitalists 3i , NatWest Ventures and the Royal Bank of Scotland , while the Bank of Scotland provided working capital . |
| 19 | Hampstead Heath , the fields of Battersea and Islington , and banks of the river through the villages of Chelsea , Wandsworth , Hammersmith and Putney provided rich hunting grounds for plant collectors and daily expeditions could be made from the City . |
| 20 | It also began to occur to her that he was very well dressed for a pickpocket — but no doubt the streets of central London provided rich pickings . |
| 21 | As part of a study of HIV testing 18 laboratories provided aggregate data , by exposure category , on all persons tested . |
| 22 | In 1896 this became the Division of the Biological Survey , which provided extensive information on the distribution of various native species of birds and animals . |
| 23 | They provided interim employment and on the second , a further chance for Nicholson to hone his writing talents , since he both acted in it , and wrote the screenplay . |
| 24 | Under a quarter of respondents provided specific teaching , which rarely exceeded 30 minutes weekly . |
| 25 | However the trust territory must operate in accordance with the agreement which provided specific enforcement provisions through the Trusteeship Council , formulated broad principles , and gave a wide discretion for their implementation to the trust territory . |
| 26 | It seems likely that this large response was assisted by the Sole Practitioners Group ( organised by Arnold Rosen ) , who provided sole practitioners with a pro forma set of answers to the questions posed in the consultative paper which they were then invited to amend as they saw fit . |
| 27 | It provided unparalleled opportunities for transnational companies manufacturing chemical fertilisers , pesticides , tractors and pump-sets to sell their wares to a vast new market . |
| 28 | If you need an intensive course which provided 30–40 hours of teaching material then use Fast Forward Short Course Editions . |
| 29 | 662 patients in whom inflammatory bowel disease had been diagnosed before 1979 , of whom 637 ( 96% ) provided adequate information . |
| 30 | It has allowed some local groups to establish new , participative , accountable projects and provided unemployed Arts and Humanities graduates with a chance at a job . |