Example sentences of "provide the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was noted by all manner of commentators in the middle years of the nineteenth century , but it was the banker , journalist , and cautious liberal , Walter Bagehot who provided the authoritative account of the new set-up in his study of The English Constitution published in 1867 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Somerset provided the supreme example of the amateur emphasis and my collection includes the autographs of W.T Creswell , G.F. Earle ( that mighty hitter ! ) . |
| 4 | The next section reports on our second multi-agency enumeration survey , which provided the empirical component of our forecast of Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 5 | The Landlord and Tenant ( Licensed Premises ) Act 1990 repeals s. 43(1) ( d ) of the 1954 Act , which provided the above exemption , so licensed premises will no longer be excluded from the 1954 Act . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 8 | The butty would then engage his men … [ and he ] supervised and paid the men , and provided the working capital . |
| 9 | Manchester and Salford provided the classic example of suburbanization . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If so , they may have reckoned without the fleet , which provided the Roman army with its mobility . |
| 12 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 13 | By now I had a baby sister Clare , and it was something that happened to her which helped to shape my destiny and provided the first step on my road to Koraloona . |
| 14 | Oxford were struggling to get forward — Les Robinson provided the first shot on target . |
| 15 | ATV provided the first example in 1955 — 6 , as we have seen , with Mirror Group capital injected at a key psychological moment . |
| 16 | On the other hand , there might be circumstances where an employer would be vicariously liable for a conspiracy involving his servants provided the other requirements of that form of liability are met . |
| 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 | Peter Stansill provided the bare essentials , and Williams , hurriedly schooled in the importance of deadlines , learnt on the job . |
| 19 | Mary Jane Stearns Schenk ( 1987 ) completed the set of social classes to which the rise of the fabliaux had been attributed by proposing that an economically emancipated peasantry in north-eastern France provided the right conditions for the genre to prosper ; a group whose primary values were competence and ambition , and success in the form of profit . |
| 20 | It follows , therefore , that a monetary union is compatible with member countries retaining their national currencies provided the following conditions are satisfied : ( a ) there are no restrictions to the movement of capital across the union ; ( b ) member countries ' financial sectors are perfectly integrated . |
| 21 | Instead , RUC headquarters provided the following statement in response to a number of questions we raised about the case . |
| 22 | A 1979 survey of 1,678 hotels covering almost all the UK hotels offering such facilities revealed that the average hotel of 81 rooms provided the following facilities : |
| 23 | In his speech , on 28 April 1939 , Hitler provided the following catalogue of achievements which , in the view of most ordinary Germans , could only be taken as a breathtaking list of personal successes : |
| 24 | This civil code remained in force up until the end of the pacific War , and provided the legal framework for the social system for nearly fifty years . |
| 25 | Two other decrees on March 1 provided the legal framework for the creation of regional authorities and for a " basic law of government " . |
| 26 | Chissano promulgated on Jan. 30 the country 's Law on Political Parties , unanimously passed earlier in the month by the Assembly of the Republic , which provided the legal foundation for the establishment of a multiparty state . |
| 27 | The Federal Assembly on Nov. 25 adopted , at the third attempt , a constitutional amendment which provided the legal basis for the dissolution of the federation of the Czech and Slovak republics on Jan. 1 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The forces of law and order were not constitutionally apparent , the apparatus of state power was hidden from view , and this provided the Revolutionary Command Council with an unregulated instrument of policy . |
| 30 | This sort of procedure is well established in other organizations , such as the University , and provided the preferred suppliers are properly chosen in the first place , and alternative source prices are kept under review at regular intervals , I think there are economic advantages in standardising suppliers . |