Example sentences of "it provide [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was Lennon 's first straight acting role and was coolly received , but it provided another vehicle for promoting his vision of a world free of war and nuclear weapons .
2 She only had one cow , it was all she could afford , but it provided enough milk to go with the porridge in the morning and the potatoes at other meals .
3 If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him .
4 Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both .
5 But a regular inspection every four or five years can not by itself be sufficient protection for the parents or the children ; nor can it provide enough information by which to judge the effectiveness of a school .
6 Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance .
7 Firstly , it provides a formal channel which all students must use for the purposes of planning and progressing their studies ; secondly , it provides each student with access to someone ready and willing to give help and advice about any matter which might affect his or her academic performance .
8 It provides that information may be withheld where a firm : " maintains an established arrangement which requires information obtained by the firm in the course of carrying on one part of its business of any kind to be withheld in certain circumstances from persons with whom it deals in the course of carrying on another part of its business of any kind . "
9 The index to the calendar is useful for those who are working on local and genealogical history , but it provides little help to those who are interested in topics of wider historical significance .
10 Not only does this save time in the Commons , it provides another type of less politically charged scrutiny by those who may have a wide range of expertise and experience .
11 For the discourse analyst , it provides another way of accounting for sequences of utterances , though one apparently limited to discourse which is the mutual construction of more than one person .
12 In the context of this chapter , however , it is particularly important to deal with the corporatist perspective on the politics of organised interests since it provides some kind of challenge to the pluralist perspective ( even though pluralism and corporatism share a number of basic assumptions ) , and it fleshes out elements of the left critique of pluralism ( even though much corporatist theory is hostile to a Marxist theory of the capitalist state ) .
13 It provides some information on biomechanical properties of the rectal wall .
14 With its direct start , it provides some 210m of varied climbing on perfect , blocky granite .
15 Certainly this can be done , though whether it provides any sort of explanation is questionable .
16 We work closely with the Department of Social Security in developing such guidance and are keen to preserve this relationship as we believe it provides more flexibility and enables actuaries to apply their professional judgement ultimately for the benefit of the pension scheme member .
17 Paradoxically it provides this sense of freedom to choose , but the process of play activity is about limiting the choices .
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