Example sentences of "which provide [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He must be ready to speculate , for the sources ( in this case the chronicles and records of government which provide him with much of his material ) do not always come up to expectation .
2 This helps the cancers form and maintain the blood vessels that nourish them , and which provide them with the routes through which they spread .
3 Some people develop very strong appetites for recognition and are attracted to jobs which provide them with endless ‘ jellybeans ’ ; for example , the reward systems of the armed services , higher education and the professions offer substantial opportunities to be recognized and praised for one 's performance .
4 As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity .
5 Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need .
6 Captive funds — generally subsidiaries of the large UK insurance companies , banks and pension funds , which provide them with capital for investment .
7 This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure .
8 When we plan a language syllabus we can draw on very comprehensive descriptions of the language which provide us with a basis for deciding what should go into the syllabus and in what order .
9 " My life was formed only by means of the public library which provided me with my only uncensored access to books .
10 And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it .
11 Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears .
12 This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction .
13 Most lucrative of all , at the end of his life , was his farm of the customs on imported silks , which provided him with £1,333 per annum up to 1610 and £7,000 per annum for the next two years .
14 The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round .
15 Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment .
16 He intended to join the Indian Civil Service , but while he was at Oxford his father and his only brother died , and he inherited the family estate , which provided him with an income for the rest of his life .
17 Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically .
18 In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands .
19 Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage .
20 So they set about it , with the help of a co-op development agency , which provided them with management services .
21 The medium of world commerce was often the sterling bill of exchange , which provided something like an international currency .
22 Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel .
23 Then they also turned down our application to have Gay News in the library , which provided us with further ammunition and an unexpected new member .
24 To the right of the steps was the gas cooker , a black monster which provided lots of hard work to keep it clean and at the side of this stood my father 's wooden tool chest .
25 The LEA scheme concerned is an unusual one in that it combines school self-evaluation with an inspection which provides something of an external evaluation of the exercise .
26 The trick is to find a feed that your horse enjoys and which provides him with all the nutrients he requires to do the work you are asking of him .
27 But whether man 's inward mind patterning , which provides him with the capacity for verbal language , is underlain by a subtle and universal language of meaning to which we all relate when using verbal language , is an interesting possibility I discussed in The Web of Life .
28 He can , then , only withdraw into his own culture which provides him with a sense of lived connections for his experiences but these are bounded by his enterprise and separate from the larger society .
29 In his key work on this subject ( 1977 ) , Bourdieu begins with a critical account of that anthropological structuralism which provides him with one of his main methodological tools .
30 The political basis of society is also held to rest on voluntary agreement , in the sense that citizens are conceived of entering into an implicit social contract whereby each surrenders the liberty to do whatever he wants and agrees to pay taxes and abide by laws in exchange for the advantages of living in a governed society , which provides him with law and order and , nowadays , a whole range of goods and services .
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