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 .
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