Example sentences of "[pers pn] provided the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 2 | The company has then got to say : ‘ If you want to take three months ’ holiday , good luck to you provided the contracted hours are worked . ’ |
| 3 | So , in the process of er change we , we provided the basic means for cutting , lifting and pulling er on every fire engine , a little amount of , of equipment , so that if you had a road traffic accident you did n't , the machine that was there , now that was a great step forward . |
| 4 | David had lit two squat candles stuck in pottery sticks , and they provided the only light in the room . |
| 5 | They provided the high command in wartime , bringing their own retinue to serve in the royal army , and the senior personnel for enforcing order in the countryside . |
| 6 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 7 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 8 | And as Nick Clark reports it provided the perfect platform for the Falcons from RAF Brize Norton . |
| 9 | It provided the perfect sanctuary and Mountbatten was always there with time and interest to talk and advise . |
| 10 | To have lost the 1987 election could be forgiven ; it provided the final catalyst for Labour 's long-drawn out policy reform . |
| 11 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
| 12 | Not simply was a market the only effective mechanism for the exchange of commodities and services in a large-scale modern society ; it was also the foundation of democracy , as it provided the economic independence that made a dictatorship impossible . |
| 13 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 14 | Yes , if it provided the additional flexibility |
| 15 | America lavished $1 billion on Liberia in the 1980s , partly because it provided the freed slaves who settled the country last century , mainly because Liberia gave a home to a Voice of America transmitter , a navigation beacon , a relay station for diplomatic communications , and a huge airfield where arms could be discreetly trans-shipped . |
| 16 | By raising Prussia from the position of a second-rate State to that of at least a kind of great power , and by achieving this with very limited physical resources , he provided the supreme illustration of what might be accomplished by an intelligent and dedicated ruler inspired by enlightened ideas . |
| 17 | Francis identifies the stages of the SI narrative as a chronological trajectory corresponding to ( i ) the Experimental Laboratory period ; ( ii ) the detonator period ( which refers to Debord 's boast that he provided the explosive machinery that ignited in May 1968 ) ; ( iii ) the Fallout period after the SI disbanded in 1972 . |
| 18 | Ashe was a prominent parliamentarian ; but Shaw advanced £1,810 for the purchase of arms for the king 's army , and during the Interregnum he provided the principal channel of communication between the English Royalists and the exiled court . |
| 19 | He provided the essential vision ; it was his power of persuasion , exercised via the telephone or in face-to-face meetings with members of congress , that brought sufficient votes to his side for the crucial roll calls . |