Example sentences of "it provide a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Although their sheer abundance depressed the value of cowries as units of currency , it provided a wealth of shells for decorative purposes as well as a medium for displaying the wealth and demonstrating the prestige of rulers . |
2 | The New Yorker thought The Graduate merited 26 pages , and it provided a springboard for endless discussions about modern youth . |
3 | But equally , it provided a home for some of the darkest forms of distrust of and revulsion from sex and marriage . |
4 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
5 | The process of internalization of values was of major importance to Parsonian theory , for it provided a link between the culture shared by members of a society and the individual 's motivation for action . |
6 | It provided a vocabulary for the mass marketing of hippies . |
7 | It facilitated Britain 's surprisingly rapid re-emergence as a major capital exporter , and it provided a framework for a major squeeze on the colonies . |
8 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
9 | The victory was both immediate and absolute ; equally important , it provided a tonic for the Allied civilian population , who were becoming increasingly war-weary and despondent . |
10 | Sentence ( 10 ) tells us of a " weakness " of the " heart " , but not until ( 11 ) , where this matter is taken up again in the expression " the poor child was not robust " , do we learn that it provided a reason for the present interview : it was for this reason ( we surmise ) that the Moreens wished to engage a resident tutor . |
11 | In one respect the Free Presbyterian Church was a valuable resource of the DUP in that it provided a cadre of people who had considerable training and experience in organization and oratory : the ministers and elders . |
12 | Between the wars it provided a market for the growing volume of Treasury bills issued by the government to meet its short-term financing needs . |
13 | It provided a venue for Lennie Bruce . |
14 | It introduced successive generations of students to an emergent radical subculture , and it provided a transmission belt through which a small minority became involved in illegal political activity . |
15 | With its egalitarian traditions of periodic redistribution of the land it provided a basis on which Russia could bypass capitalism and make a direct transition from semi-feudalism to socialism . |
16 | It provided a balance . |
17 | It looked like somebody 's curtains cut up — which was what it probably was — and if it provided a talking-point — well , that was all to the good , was n't it ? |
18 | The Board 's role had been afforced through its assumption of providing powers under the Bedfordshire scheme and through its close co-operative relationships with the Rural Community Council ( RCC ) in Cambridgeshire and for which it provided a series of courses in that county . |
19 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Caulfield could not have evinced a more robust hostility to the Official Secrets Act , sharing a widely held belief that it was long out of date and an intolerable interference with freedom of speech , and that it provided a justification for prosecutions ranging from the serious to the grotesquely ridiculous . |
20 | This seemed a reasonable system to consider , as , although it was unlikely that a perfect balance between costs and income could ever be achieved , it provided a target to aim for , or a shared value for all staff engaged on activities concerned with cost control and income generation , regardless of their departmental position . |
21 | Its simplistic political viewpoint may have correctly reflected attitudes at the time it was set ; but it provided a target for the anti-war movement and provoked demonstrations in many cities world-wide when it was shown . |
22 | It provided a channel for protest while the war continued . |
23 | Always a determined character , he gave up alcohol and smoking the day he pulled on his running shoes , and he quickly found that running long distances was his forte , and that it provided a challenge to fit his temperament . |
24 | While the tribute often remained unpaid , as in the case of Sicily , where an annual payment of 30,000 tarims ( about £100,000 ) had been agreed on in Frederick 's minority , it provided a source of income which the political activities of the popes in their dealings with the separate kingdoms suggest was definitely worthwhile . |
25 | For a smaller group , it provided a living . |
26 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
27 | If , contrary to my argument , conventionalism did fit our legal practices , would it provide a sound or even decent justification of them ? |
28 | Did it provide a cure ? |
29 | It provides a way of helping to dismantle and correct oversimplified explanations where generalisations have been made from particular cases — or even on the basis of a single example — which clearly will not stand up to broader comparative investigation . |
30 | The joy of a golden thread approach is that it provides a way of moving between the past and the very different circumstances of the present . |