Example sentences of "provide [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My baggage did n't arrive on Tuesday , either , but the airline provided me with red shorts and a red tee shirt .
2 They also learn the position of the wetlands that provide them with crucial staging posts where they can feed and rest before starting on the next part of their journey .
3 As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity .
4 They must be a priority target group , so we can prevent exploitation and discrimination and provide them with adequate training in health and safety and other matters .
5 The qualitative methods provide them with feminist validity , while the quantitative methods ensure the reliability which psychology values .
6 It does not , however , provide them with any defence to a claim that they negligently advised a particular treatment or negligently carried it out .
7 Barber argues that the knowledge and skills of professionals provide them with considerable power and it is therefore essential for the well-being of society that this power be used for the benefit of all .
8 Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences .
9 Luckily the girls also managed to provide me with some nephews to balance it up a bit . ’
10 Although the American Government supports the peace process , it has urged the contras to remain in Honduras until after the Nicaraguan election and has continued to provide them with non-military funds .
11 Because students are taking two qualifications at one , it is very important to provide them with easily-understood information at appropriate stages of the programme .
12 It is necessary to attract and select staff , to train them , to provide them with various services and with potentiality for advancement as their skills increase with experience .
13 The shame of it is we have the capacity to provide them with that peace but we 've decided it is n't worth it . ’
14 to continue to provide them with that service .
15 The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training .
16 And if you are to provide them with decent motives for a murder , and decently different ones as well , you will need room to do it in .
17 Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ?
18 Some live within plants , stimulating the tissues of their hosts to provide them with custom-built homes by growing special galls , hollow stems or thorns with swollen bases .
19 Because it is subject to the conditions of carriage that we accept their business and therefore we have to provide them with written information .
20 He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 .
21 To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market .
22 An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness .
23 Enough grain is produced to provide everyone with ample protein and more than 3,000 calories per day .
24 Sadly , it was not confined to writers and artists , for though it may be unfair to blame Nietzsche for his appropriation by Nazi ideologues , there is no question but that his doctrine of the superman and his apparent anti-semitism provided them with fertile soil .
25 Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance .
26 Specialising in the financial sector has given Russell Reynolds class and style , and provided them with prestigious contacts reminiscent of the British old-boy network , but has also been the cause of its major problems .
27 Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically .
28 However , if we took our present population of farm animals and provided them with free-range conditions , this would have a severe effect on conservation in Britain .
29 Then other living organisms provided them with further opportunities , and through symbiosis ( a mutually-dependent state of living together ) they created , finally , animals .
30 The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor .
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