Example sentences of "often provide a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working was mandatory viewing , for it often provided a Princess Royal Pacific . |
| 2 | Because mulberry trees are usually found in the centre of a lawn , not hidden away in the kitchen garden or grown in an orchard , they often provide a focus for children 's play . |
| 3 | They often provide a drop-in centre and sometimes they provide group counselling as well as a link to appropriate specialist health services . |
| 4 | As a consequence of the difficulties of poverty in which many working-class children were raised , education did not often provide an escape route for them and many , particularly in towns like Jarrow , faced the prospect of juvenile unemployment . |
| 5 | They play an immensely important role in tropical marine communities often providing a habitat as well as food for other invertebrates and fishes . |
| 6 | A number had come from scientific backgrounds , fathers ( usually ) were nuclear physicists , engineers , doctors or maths lecturers , and often provided an impetus to study science through discussion of it at home or through help with homework . |
| 7 | Though staff and parent governors do n't serve in a shop steward capacity to relay complaints and grumbles , they should n't miss the opportunity of raising problem issues at the meetings as open discussion often provides a springboard towards a solution . |
| 8 | However , serious investigative journalism often provides a challenge to the official version of reality and the search for a major sex criminal is rarely like that . |