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

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1 HP claims that 7100-based business servers running it provide commercial users with the industry 's fastest uniprocessor server performance on TPS-A benchmarks .
2 The unsatisfactory nature of project evaluation work and the inconclusive lessons which can be drawn from it provide little justification for the donor ‘ omniscience ’ which continues to characterize their negotiations with recipients .
3 It provided acute services for a neighbouring district without a DGH , and this already represented one-quarter of its business .
4 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 .
5 It provided continuous core for analysis and integration with downhole geophysical logs .
6 It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World .
7 It provided simple answers to seemingly intractable questions .
8 It provided unparalleled opportunities for transnational companies manufacturing chemical fertilisers , pesticides , tractors and pump-sets to sell their wares to a vast new market .
9 It provided year-by-year evidence of prevailing trends in public health .
10 The city 's Central Station incorporates a large viaduct section over Argyll Street , which is locally nicknamed the Highlandman 's Umbrella , because it provided useful shelter for the homeless and unemployed in the city .
11 The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects .
12 It was Lennon 's first straight acting role and was coolly received , but it provided another vehicle for promoting his vision of a world free of war and nuclear weapons .
13 As such it provided further evidence of a more flexible North Korean foreign policy arising in response to the momentous changes in Eastern Europe , and to South Korea 's recent successes in establishing relations with socialist countries .
14 Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ?
15 The competition was fished on the River Glem which looked uninviting , running gin clear and low , but it provided excellent match for the hard working delegates .
16 Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century .
17 The GIS gave rapid and easy access to the data in a number of different ways , it provided analytical tools for the production of statistical tables , and it allowed the output of maps and specific factors , such as the overlay of the road network onto the green belt layer , showing areas of high and low accessibility , thus permitting the evaluation of population growth potential relative to accessibility and planning constraints .
18 If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him .
19 Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both .
20 Similar to agreements signed by Poland and Czechoslovakia with Germany , it provided binding protection for the 100,000-strong German ethnic minority in Romania .
21 IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd .
22 The UN Security Council on Aug. 15 unanimously adopted Resolution 707 condemning Iraq for its failure to disclose full details of its weapons programme and ordering it to provide complete access to UN inspection teams [ see pp. 38307-08 ; 38360-61 ] , including accepting their right to conduct aerial inspections anywhere in the country .
23 But a regular inspection every four or five years can not by itself be sufficient protection for the parents or the children ; nor can it provide enough information by which to judge the effectiveness of a school .
24 Firstly , it provides a formal channel which all students must use for the purposes of planning and progressing their studies ; secondly , it provides each student with access to someone ready and willing to give help and advice about any matter which might affect his or her academic performance .
25 It provides outside parties with a few limited details on the borrower , loan size , term , currency , syndicate leader and participating banks ( see specimen tombstone at the end of this chapter ) .
26 It provides comprehensive coverage of practically every variable involved in the sport , and it makes the extraction of extensive statistics a simple matter .
27 It is essential , therefore , that when the water industry prospectus is published next month it provides comprehensive information on all 10 authorities .
28 When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance .
29 It provides extensive guidance on learning and teaching , but it remains for the tutor to apply the descriptor to the language being taught , and to provide the necessary content .
30 It provides cheap entertainment for illiterate people and perverts .
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