Example sentences of "could provide a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operating agreement it has set up with the Manchester Metrolink — due to start running along several sections of former BR track today — could provide a good foundation . |
| 2 | There was , however , a growing realization in Whitehall that Britain could no longer ‘ go it alone ’ in weapon development , and so she would have to seek some form of closer partnership with the United States , at least , until Europe could provide a viable alternative . |
| 3 | However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems . |
| 4 | Because of the scale of the need , the limitations of staff and resources and the pressure of other work it is unrealistic to expect that local authorities could provide a comprehensive training programme immediately . |
| 5 | But the EC Commission doubted America could provide a global standard , even though Europe 's attempts to set its own standard are mired . |
| 6 | For their part , the problem faced by the proponents of epigenesis was that no one could provide a reasonable explanation of how the embryo was formed . |
| 7 | This type of program could provide a systematic approach to the game environment suggested in the other sections . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , I find it useful to play at imagining what kind of school system could provide a congenial conduit for my educational ideals . |
| 9 | A showpiece Glass City to celebrate the city 's links with the glass-making industry and a 40,000 seater stadium , which could provide a new home for the football club , are included in the scheme . |
| 10 | The revived investigation about the circumstances of the 1988 shootings of Danny McCann , Mairead Farrell and Sean Savage could provide a new propaganda weapon for republican sympathisers . |
| 11 | This intuitive account would require , in an analogue of consciousness for which program-level reduction could provide a necessary condition , but no more , that there be access from a higher to a lower level of programming language in certain , yet to be specified , circumstances . |
| 12 | This , we contended , could provide a financial return comparable to that from a new building . |
| 13 | Author co-citation analysis would not have been appropriate in the case of theses , but title-word co-citation could provide a useful tool for identifying specialist departments and multi-researcher programmes . |
| 14 | But we felt the tables themselves , could provide a useful background er and in having had them compiled , they point up some rather interesting issues , which we would return to eventually . |
| 15 | The new scale of architecture has since posed insuperable problems ; and the earlier view that town planning could provide a protective shield of refinement over new development and so avoid the brash , the banal and the ugly , was not to be . |
| 16 | Still fresh and green at the back end , it could provide a juicy supplement to the diet of a early calving cow , or for the smallholder 's animals newly brought in to the byre for the winter . |
| 17 | Those of the junior staff who could provide a satisfactory alibi were allowed home as soon as it had been checked ; one by one and with some reluctance at missing the excitements to come they went their way . |
| 18 | Mr Lawton said : ‘ It is an exciting initiative which could provide a dynamic role model for future co-operation in other parts of the city . |
| 19 | Castle Drachenfels could provide a mind-numbing complication to add to the events of Empire in Flames . |
| 20 | However , the Full Moon on May 16 could provide a happy ending and , despite the odd hold-up or broken promise at the end of May , things are looking up professionally and financially . |
| 21 | Definitions and meanings could not only extend the matching of terms but , more importantly , these could provide a contextual approach as well . |
| 22 | You could provide a quick summary yourself , or , if you have time to do it , you could provide a written summary broken into sections corresponding to the points at which you have the breaks . |
| 23 | In any case , for the locals , a fight with a copper could provide a welcome break in the street corner tedium . |
| 24 | You could provide a quick summary yourself , or , if you have time to do it , you could provide a written summary broken into sections corresponding to the points at which you have the breaks . |
| 25 | And the newspaper itself could provide a stunning example with its own employment practices of how to run an organization on correct Right-On lines . |
| 26 | In the long term , electronic scanning and linking to an image database could provide a secure back-up to the herbarium collection , a means of transmitting images to other institutions , and a method for collaborative working between institutions using real-time computer conferencing . |
| 27 | Hence , in the mouths of conservative lawyers , we catch an appeal to the radical doctrine of the sovereignty of the nation ; it alone could provide a theoretical basis for resistance to a French king whose claim was legally established by the formal abdication of both Ferdinand VII and his father . |
| 28 | A ‘ baby boom ’ now could provide a large number of teachers in 20 years ' time ; but if in 15 years ' time , the birth rate were to be low , there would be insufficient children for these teachers to teach ( unless pupil/teacher ratios were to be changed ) . |
| 29 | This sentiment was widely echoed by representatives of other countries , many of whom expressed the belief that , if the Korean application were accepted , then the UN could provide a valuable forum for discussions between the two states . |
| 30 | It was suspected that there must be a link between the murders and Dovaston set out to find it by devising a computer programme that could provide a statistical profile of who the murderer was likely to be . |