Example sentences of "[noun sg] provided [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | English economics provided him with the two antinomies he needed , proletariat and bourgeoisie , as the polarised , opposites of the dialectic . |
| 3 | Educational success provided him with the means of breaching the barrier of his lowly birth and enabled him to gain access to the lower echelons of the petty bourgeoisie as an engineer in the French railway system . |
| 4 | She said that the sale provided her with the out-of-print material needed for research . |
| 5 | A gun barrel thrust into the fireplace provided him with the means of heating substances to high temperatures . |
| 6 | 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 . |