Example sentences of "provide [pers pn] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Anorexia provided me with the illusion that I was in control , not only of my body and my own status within the community , but of that community itself and , finally , of the biological processes which others around me were powerless to influence .
2 This helps the cancers form and maintain the blood vessels that nourish them , and which provide them with the routes through which they spread .
3 I think it 's from the organization 's point of view , from our statement of purpose , business plan , yeah , we do want people to achieve certain things , and therefore we provide them with the training to be able to do that .
4 Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need .
5 At the primary level , the mathematics curriculum should , therefore , equip children with the skills and language of number , enrich their aesthetic and linguistic experience , provide them with the means of exploring and commenting upon their environment , and develop their powers of logical thought .
6 to provide me with the reference , would you be kind enough to provide me with a reference and send it via oh my God !
7 The courses are aimed at senior management and are intended to provide them with the knowledge and skills to exploit AIT effectively in their business .
8 this freedom we talk about is worthy of their support because it is for them we fight ; it is for the establishment of a social system that is going to provide them with the opportunity and the means to develop all that is best in them and the Nation .
9 The capital was large enough to provide them with the anonymity they badly needed .
10 So really it 's understood in these allegations that you 're saying that the solicitors should have invited your client to provide them with the authority to write to the bank .
11 In disregard of this fact , Winans engaged in a scheme with certain Wall Street financiers to provide them with the contents of the column prior to its publication .
12 They 've asked us to provide them with the finance one container , that 's five hundred pound , plus two hundred pound transport , which will be matched by the community council if we do it .
13 We recognise that those who live and work in the vicinity of our plants have the right to know about our activities and we are doing our very best to provide them with the information they require .
14 This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received .
15 You do n't have to do anything , apart from provide me with the back-up I need in business . ’
16 The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries .
17 The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day .
18 However , they have asked that I provide you with the draft ( unaudited ) results for the year to 31st October , 19XX in order that you may , if you so wish , reconsider your offer .
19 Keep up the good work — and do n't forget that this column and Postbag are here to provide you with the opportunity to air your news and views on the game !
20 Our responsibility is to provide you with the holiday we confirm , and this may not include special facilities which you request but which we can not guarantee .
21 In the unlikely event that we fail to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking or they are not of a reasonable standard , then we accept responsibility whether caused by our employees , agents or suppliers , save that ( i ) we shall not accept responsibility or liability for death , bodily injury or illness caused to you or others named on your booking form , except as set out below and ( ii ) we limit our responsibility or liability in respect of carriage by air , sea or land to that provided for by the relevant international conventions in respect of such carriage .
22 If confirmed transport is cancelled , changed or delayed by more than six hours or hotel is changed or if we are unable to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking due to war , threat of war , riot , civil strife , industrial dispute , terrorist activity , disaster , fire , flood ( including fire or flood in hotels ) or bad weather we can not accept liability or responsibility and compensation is not payable but provided the holiday has not begun we will offer alternative travel routing or alternative travel date or alternative hotel and advise additional cost if any or you may elect to cancel and we will offer a full refund of monies paid .
23 I have been asked by Messrs Grant Thornton , our financial advisors , to write to Parish Priests to provide you with the information regarding Pay As You Earn regulations .
24 I feel it is appropriate to provide you with the details of our costs to date and to give an indication of the likely costs to the conclusion of the heads of agreement .
25 The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie .
26 The latter provided him with the income needed to purchase a house beside the bowling green at Whitehall , and York also secured his election as MP for New Romney in 1661 .
27 The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round .
28 The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked .
29 If it was Morrissey who would eventually encourage Stephen to write more songs ( for the set that would become the No.1 album , ‘ Viva Hate ’ , at the beginning of 1988 ) , it was Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr — now one half of Electronic with New Order 's Bernard Sumner — who provided him with the opportunity to learn his craft as the guitar player 's producer par excellence .
30 The proposed closure at Cortonwood , Rotherham , in the heart of the militant Yorkshire Area , then provided him with the opportunity to launch a strike , under Rule 41 and the 1981 Yorkshire ballot , without , as he perceived it , any need for the potentially damaging national ballot which Rule 43 demanded .
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