Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] provide a " in BNC.

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1 A calorie is a unit of energy and each food provides a certain amount of energy when it is " burnt " or metabolized by the body .
2 The idea , under the new plan , is that , over a number of years , the local authority will contract with a wide range of voluntary and private agencies to provide a spectrum of different services which it pays for .
3 Pre-operative counselling and support are as important as physical care and some hospitals provide a specialist nurse to help the patient deal with both the physical and psychological problems .
4 The pickup is a bridge-mounted active piezo type , controlled by a 3-band EQ , with treble , mid and bass sliders providing a considerable amount of cut or boost to each frequency .
5 ‘ I need help getting on and off the train and British Rail provides a ramp for this , but for about a month it 's only been possible for me to arrive or leave the station before 3.15pm .
6 Analysis of the period and cumulative variances provide a control mechanism helping to ensure that each expenditure and commitments are not allowed to rise above the company 's ability to provide the funds from its operations .
7 Analysis of the period and cumulative variances provide a control mechanism helping to ensure that each expenditure and commitments are not allowed to rise above the company 's ability to provide the funds from its operations .
8 Around it a variety of flower beds and grassy banks provided a backdrop for several undulating footpaths .
9 Extra wide seats and easy backs provide a combination of comfort and detailed eye-catching design .
10 The Christian and imperial past provided a language of criticism as well as one of praise .
11 The lag between near-side light and far-side light provides a measure of the distance across the ring .
12 In both , a warm , dignified and considerate people provide a marked contrast to the simple peasants or scruffy bandits who are all too often seen on screen .
13 Cultural differences resulting from the division of labour into productive and domestic forms provided a commonsense justification for separate educational provision , focusing for girls on child care and domestic science .
14 At a purely practical level , the anarchist and socialist press provided a forum for the dissemination of information about the October revolution , where it was given an enthusiastic reception .
15 Scotland 's major canals were built across the country to link the western and eastern coasts providing a route which was safer and shorter than the sea passage around the northern coast .
16 Pozzolana when mixed with the excellent lime from the local limestones formed an extremely hard concrete , to which base was also added brick and travertine fragments to provide a solid core for walling and vaulting .
17 The elegant arabesque-style hotel skirts the Mediterranean shoreline on th east side of the island , with sweeping coastal plains and craggy mountains providing a dramatic backdrop .
18 And this new-found cohesion between governments in the United States and western Europe provided a political framework for the regulation of the international economy ( including its financial , trade , and technological aspects ) and the spread of Fordism , as well as a method whereby the US was persuaded to spend its surplus dollars .
19 The influence of the cinema on children and young people provided a sharp focus for these anxieties , which had been aired since the arrival of the first silent movies .
20 NOTE : The brochure and other literature provide a broad summary of the insurance .
21 A classified Landsat TM image ( Chapter 5 ) can be used to derive boundaries of spatial classes such as cropland , woodland and water , and remote sensing provide a means of keeping the data concerning land-surface cover that are stored in a GIS up to date .
22 The concepts mental lexicon , lexical entry and lexical access provide a vocabulary which we can use when discussing how words are perceived and produced .
23 The fact that the occurrences of open in 73b , c and d exemplify a regular correlation between semantic and grammatical properties provides a justification for regarding them as lexically distinct .
24 On the other hand , intelligently entertaining and communicative works provide a background from which works of genius can emerge .
25 Table 3.1 and subsequent tables provide a comparison between the UK and developed countries as a whole , in the shape of averages for the EC ( the present 12 countries of the European Community ) and for the OECD ( the EC plus 12 further countries : the USA , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Japan , Austria , Finland , Iceland , Norway , Sweden , Switzerland and Turkey ) .
26 And though some reports , particularly from higher officials , absurdly continued to state that the belief in the Führer , despite all setbacks , had not diminished , SD regional and local reports provided a much more devastatingly realistic impression of the Hitler image in the last phase of the war .
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