Example sentences of "provide the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Oxford were struggling to get forward — Les Robinson provided the first shot on target . |
4 | ATV provided the first example in 1955 — 6 , as we have seen , with Mirror Group capital injected at a key psychological moment . |
5 | Returning to the questions we posed at the outset of this enquiry , we would , therefore , have to conclude that anti-Semitism , despite its pivotal place in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , was of only secondary importance in cementing the bonds between Führer and people which provided the Third Reich with its popular legitimation and base of plebiscitary acclamation . |
6 | For many young academics they provide the first step in the ladder of publications , now an essential requisite for career advancement . |
7 | These results underscore the importance of the telomeric repeat nucleotide sequence for efficient recognition as functional telomeric DNA in vivo and provide the first step toward the development of an artificial chromosome cloning system for filamentous fungi . |
8 | At that time — at least to start with — we could pick up some of those who had been the least successful in their school careers , often because they had turned their backs on the opportunities open to them , and provide the first steps towards training and employment . |
9 | By saying , " How odd " in response to McKendrick 's giving of his own name he fails to provide the second pair part of the adjacency pair ( Schegloff and Sacks 1973 ) which constitutes a greeting . |
10 | We might thus be able to provide the first step in assisting a school to maximise any award which it receives . |
11 | Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do . |
12 | When reclaiming such land , it may be necessary to provide the first pioneer crops with a direct injection of nutrients through chemical fertilizers but it should always be remembered that the aim is to build up the life in the soil so that it can provide its own fertility within the land potential . |
13 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
14 | If there 's a handy tree , wall or fence to provide the third leg , rest against it : this will increase your camera steadiness quite dramatically . |
15 | Nonetheless , there is a clearly definable move , even in 11–18 schools , to provide the sixth form with its own base — and its own rules — often markedly different from the remainder of the school and in many 11–16 schools , the fifth form have successfully taken over the duties and responsibilities traditionally given to sixth formers , |
16 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
17 | THE ministerial meeting of the Group of 24 industrial market economies in Brussels today will provide the first test of whether the West is ready to rise to the occasion in Eastern Europe . |
18 | In this current project , two studies are being carried out which should provide the next stage for following up the researchers ' first cohort of 1981 entrants . |
19 | In this area of interest one normally looks at the classic work of Bartlett ( 1932 ) as providing the first base for the complex analysis of how people 's thought and language come together in their recall of complex materials . |
20 | Yeah negative , right , textiles rise faster , the price of textiles rises faster than the general price level , the real increase in textile prices , therefore , we 'd expect providing the first law of demand holds , that we get a negative response consumption , right . |
21 | Cray Research Inc has a new disk array based on its DA-60 and DA-62 arrays and a new DCA-3 channel adaptor , providing the first RAID level 3 capability from Cray and a four-fold increase in data transfer rate ; it also cut prices on its DD-60 and DD-62 disk drives , which make up the DA-60 and DA-62 arrays , by 20% and 28% respectively ; DA-60 prices now begin at $190,000 and DA-62 prices begin at $120,000 ; the DCA-3 channel adaptor is based on the chip technology used in the Y-MP C90 supercomputer ; it 's $50,000 . |
22 | Daily newspapers are now becoming popular , providing the first phase of what will later become known as the mass media . |
23 | On the porch a notice announces that the occupier takes part in the neighbourhood watch scheme , despite which Emecheta opens the door without checking , providing the first feeling of welcome in the slough of despond . |
24 | The poll , which had provided the first opportunity for the union 's 1,600,000 membership to elect directly its national officers , had been organized as part of a settlement agreement to a huge civil racketeering suit brought against the Teamsters by the Justice Department [ see also pp. 37954-55 ] . |
25 | The election of Mamaloni as Prime Minister in March 1989 , following emergence from the February 1989 general election as the largest single party [ see pp. 36465 ; 36526 ] had been widely perceived as the beginning of a new era in that it had provided the first instance of single-party government since independence in 1978 . |
26 | Identifiable links between the Mycenaeans and Egyptians have until now been largely confined to deposits of Mycenaean pottery in Egypt , and sporadic finds of Egyptians objects in Greece.If this papyrus does show Mycenaean warriors fighting alongside Egyptians , perhaps as mercenaries , it provides the first evidence for more direct interaction between these two major Bronze Age cultures of the Mediterranean . |
27 | It offers further confirmation for GR outside the solar system and it provides the first evidence , albeit indirect , for gravitational radiation . |
28 | Thus the Book of Daniel provides the first intimation of that apocalyptic interpretation of contemporary struggles which was to become an ordinary feature of the later rebellions of the Jews against foreign rule . |
29 | This conference provides the first opportunity in West Belfast itself for the unemployed , community groups , local business people , policy makers , managers and administrators of employment and training schemes , funders , careers teachers , trade unionists and others to discuss present and future employment prospects of people living in West Belfast . |
30 | The structure also contrasts with Fab-antigen complexes , in which all contacts with antigen are mediated by the variable regions of the antibody , and to our knowledge provides the first details of interaction of the constant regions of Fab with another protein . |