Example sentences of "provide an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following explication and illustration of these principles , Clark notes that earlier work by Donaldson and Balfour ( 1968 ) on young children 's understanding of the words more and less appears to provide an exception to the Principle of Contrast . |
| 2 | The Enterprise Centre 's crucial role in the University on staff development is one of initiation — to provide an opportunity to ‘ pilot ’ new ideas , ‘ courses ’ , schemes etc . |
| 3 | The intention was to provide an incentive to owners to sell their land at a price which took account of the developer 's liability to pay the ( reduced ) charge . |
| 4 | The commission believes that tougher standards on fuels and engines should be introduced by the government at the earliest possible date to provide an incentive to the transport industry . |
| 5 | It seemed to provide an envoi to the policies and economics of consensus , which had coincided with decades of calamitous financial and international decline . |
| 6 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 7 | Durkheim sought to provide an answer to this question by demonstrating that society forms an integrated unity similar to that of living organisms . |
| 8 | At the outset the theories which purport to provide an answer to the question of which issues go to jurisdiction will be examined . |
| 9 | Examination of the theories which purport to provide an answer to this question is nonetheless important for a number of reasons . |
| 10 | In view of the deeply felt resentment at the reign of Bayezid I on the part of at least the more pious elements of the state , it seems not impossible that Murad II ( 1421–51 ) who , alter Mehmed I ( 1413–21 ) , set about re-establishing the integrity and order of the Ottoman state , decided to provide an answer to the critics of the secular state by the creation of an office to represent the spiritual authority of the seriat , an office , moreover , free from the taint that had come to affect the members of the ulema associated with the state service . |
| 11 | The research attempts to provide an answer to this question by means of a blanket survey of all manufacturing establishments in the industry with a follow-up in depth interview survey of selected case studies . |
| 12 | The principal aim of the project is to provide an answer to this question . |
| 13 | From its nature it can not do much to provide an answer to the key question : who were the consumers ? |
| 14 | Where the plaintiff 's damage is the result of more than one cause , the but for test does not appear to provide an answer to causation problems . |
| 15 | Not too many recent books have specifically attempted to provide an introduction to the interpretation of the spectra produced by the title techniques when applied to inorganic compounds . |
| 16 | To provide an introduction to basic physiology . |
| 17 | As its title indicates , this book is intended to provide an introduction to the main topics currently discussed under the rather unclear heading of ‘ epistemology ’ or theory of knowledge . |
| 18 | It will not go into technical detail but aims to provide an introduction to what is needed in terms of equipment , skills and people . |
| 19 | The overall aim of this programme is to provide an introduction to general legal principles and legal technique . |
| 20 | Since the intention of this chapter has been to provide an introduction to global tectonics and the major elements of the Earth 's morphology and structure , the suggested reading is mainly limited to texts which will be useful in providing more details on these topics . |
| 21 | Navarra is I believe unique in that it provides a politically acceptable centre such that both the Basque Country and Catalonia would not find it embarrassing to attend a summer school there , and in that it is sufficiently endowed while remaining approachable to provide an alternative to Madrid , which would I imagine present far greater bureaucratic difficulty . |
| 22 | It 's your job to provide an alternative to the steel bar by cutting a length of timber instead . |
| 23 | Gemini 's aim was to ‘ decolonise ’ world news and to provide an alternative to reports written by western journalists for western readers . |
| 24 | The police were needed not only to combat crime , but also to provide an alternative to the army in suppressing serious public disorder . |
| 25 | Realist approaches ( see Sayer , 1984 ) have been used to provide an alternative to positivism on the one hand and historicism on the other . |
| 26 | Better coordinated aftercare services may have a greater influence on the level of psychiatric bed use than services which are supposed to provide an alternative to admission . |
| 27 | The aim of the party was to provide an alternative to the existing coalition and opposition parties , to establish a " functional and participative democracy " and to convene a constitutional assembly to restructure the republic . |
| 28 | Although Keating , as Treasurer , was responsible for much of the current economic position — it was widely accepted that in 1987 he had allowed the economy to overheat , and had been forced to use high interest rates to cool it , thereby exacerbating the impact of the world recession — he was also widely perceived as the only Cabinet member with the experience and stature to provide an alternative to the leadership of Hawke . |
| 29 | Democratic Choice would support Yeltsin and the government , aiming to provide an alternative to the potentially powerful moderate opposition Civic Union group and to extreme nationalist and neo-communist groups . |
| 30 | Also , while large private grounds in towns may seem an anachronism , they often provide important ‘ green lungs ‘ , and their lofty trees and lawns provide an amenity to any passer-by . |