Example sentences of "able to provide the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless there is growth , it is argued , the rich will not be able to provide the money and technological resources needed to counter climate change globally . |
| 2 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |
| 3 | If , due to events beyond our control , we are no longer able to provide the holiday booked , we will return to you all monies paid , or offer you an alternative holiday of comparable standard . |
| 4 | Koriyama city was able to provide the museum with a budget of ¥6,400 million ( £26.6 million ) , spending ¥4,000 million ( £16.6 million ) on the building and reserving the rest for acquisitions . |
| 5 | Far better to have a reputation for being inclusive , ready and able to help pupils whatever their difficulties , whatever their needs , to be able to provide the entitlement curriculum for every kind of pupil . |
| 6 | In early 1991 the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee ( RWMAC ) had urged the government to set up an independent consultative service for the " small users " of radioactive material , since H.M. Inspectorate of Pollution was not able to provide the support required for such a service . |
| 7 | If the fashion industry responded by establishing better links through design and manufacturing to the high street , it would then be able to provide the customer with a more individual product . ’ |
| 8 | Combining the new technique with the scientific system of the Roman law , Gratian and his school were able to provide the Church with what came to be the first part of its corpus of official law . |
| 9 | By dint of careful and meticulous research she was able to provide the defence with evidence that every significant statement published in the Sunday Telegraph had been published somewhere already in a newspaper , a magazine or a book . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1970s the American electorate was in a fluid , dealigned state with parties no longer able to provide the degree of structure that they had contributed in the past . |
| 11 | The family should have clear concepts of what a multiracial society is , or should be , and should be willing and able to provide the child with a balanced view of the different races . |
| 12 | Erm , he finally had to shut the adult school , not because the prisoners were n't interested in in attending any more , but because the prison officers and the governor were n't able to provide the man-power to cover the existence of that class . |
| 13 | On the recommendation of the IMS , an outside bureau offering computer sharing was chosen which was able to provide the facilities and support required . |
| 14 | Commercial banks have generally been able to provide the finance necessary to support the huge increase in investment because they have collected substantial deposits from savers . |
| 15 | If allies were able to provide the necessities of life , primitive valuables could have acted as a medium of exchange ; primitive valuables may also have been used as a means of contracting alliances as may marriages between members of different political groups . |
| 16 | It was achieved only because the senior ranks were there and able to provide the infrastructure and necessary training . |
| 17 | ‘ On the whole we are able to provide the training that we wish to offer ’ … |
| 18 | And we want to be able to provide the controllability that we achieve traditionally through centralization in the mainframe environment in what will inevitably be a distributed world . |
| 19 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |